BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

KIA · 28 Feb 2011 at 20:27

mufcmark said:
It says I am getting 15mb out of a possible 35mb

The upload is fine though

IP profile, not throughput.

What is your router?

Nazca · 5 Mar 2011 at 21:41

So, I'm finally getting Infinity unlimited in a couple of weeks. I got a letter from BT with all the details this morning. What was interesting is that I'm signing onto a 12 month contract, not an 18 month one as suggested on the Infinity site.

Is this a typo or for real?

kablooey · 6 Mar 2011 at 14:39

Nazca said:
So, I'm finally getting Infinity unlimited in a couple of weeks. I got a letter from BT with all the details this morning. What was interesting is that I'm signing onto a 12 month contract, not an 18 month one as suggested on the Infinity site.

Is this a typo or for real?

What did you do to get a letter? I've registered online but not heard anything yet...

The BT infinity availability checker has changed from 31 December 2010, 31 March 2011, 31 June and is now saying 16 March 2011! I hope that finally, finally I'm about to get a decent connection. They estimate 30.8 Mbps down and 6.8 up, that would be awesome, for comparison this is what I've had to put up with for the last 6 years...

Fingers crossed!

Nazca · 6 Mar 2011 at 20:45

kablooey said:
What did you do to get a letter? I've registered online but not heard anything yet...

Fingers crossed!

Just make an order on the web, and register. That's all I guess.

ringo747 · 7 Mar 2011 at 11:46

Does anyone know if you can get any decent cashback on Infinity deals with the likes of topcashback? I see BT broadband on there but not sure if Infinity is included.

BluBallz · 7 Mar 2011 at 13:39

Mine has also changed now from the 31st to the 16th of this month

bramski · 7 Mar 2011 at 14:00

My exchange is Infinity enabled but does my current speed from that exchange bear any significance on what my Infinity speeds will be like? ie, slow adsl means poor infinity?

Deleted member 651465 · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:02

bramski said:
My exchange is Infinity enabled but does my current speed from that exchange bear any significance on what my Infinity speeds will be like? ie, slow adsl means poor infinity?

It goes from distance to the local green cabinet, not the exchange.

(No)

Jabbs · 7 Mar 2011 at 15:43

bramski said:
My exchange is Infinity enabled but does my current speed from that exchange bear any significance on what my Infinity speeds will be like? ie, slow adsl means poor infinity?

You will get a much faster speed my sister has had it fitted a few weeks ago, before she struggled to get 1 meg on bt most of the time it was half that, she is on infinity now at 32 meg she is very happy.

Have a look on the bt infinity site and see what speed it says you should get, that's what it gives for me sister but her download is higher but upload is slow as she is on one of the lower packages.
Fibre optic broadband
You can get fibre optic broadband with speeds of up to 40Mb now.
28.7Mb download
6.8Mb upload

mrmoose · 7 Mar 2011 at 17:10

ringo747 said:
Does anyone know if you can get any decent cashback on Infinity deals with the likes of topcashback? I see BT broadband on there but not sure if Infinity is included.

£50 with quidco and topcashback for internet only. infinity is included in the bt broadband.

timmy85 · 7 Mar 2011 at 19:56

I've been keeping my out out hoping BT would upgrade my local exchange (tonypandy) but alas I've heard from a mate who works in BT its not scheduled this year or next.... to top it all off my area is pentre and is classed as 1 of the slowest areas in the uk.......

http://www.broadbandwatchdog.co.uk/story/2010/11/17/slowest-broadband-speed-goes-to-kent-village/

ringo747 · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:02

mrmoose said:
£50 with quidco and topcashback for internet only. infinity is included in the bt broadband.

Thanks - will check it out. I was thinking of ringing them up and seeing what best price they will do but there probably isn't any movement.

C.R.A.Z.Y · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:15

I'm with BT Infinity, speed is great:
40MB/s Down & 8MB/s Up

However the 300Gb FUP sucks :-(

And the BTFon is also really handy when your out and about with your smartphone or lappy :-)

muon · 7 Mar 2011 at 20:22

Yeh I can also confirm that Infinity is included in TCB.

Guitarman0 · 7 Mar 2011 at 21:26

BluBallz said:
Mine has also changed now from the 31st to the 16th of this month

Same. God I can't wait to get off 1.5mbps

Yerman · 8 Mar 2011 at 17:37

C.R.A.Z.Y said:
I'm with BT Infinity, speed is great:
40MB/s Down & 8MB/s Up

However the 300Gb FUP sucks

The 300GB FUP is being removed from April. BT will still throttle P2P at peak times, but there will be no defined usage limit, so you won't have your speed reduced if you go over 300GB.

BT Total Broadband and BT Infinity customers will benefit from the removal of Fair Usage Policy (FUP) controls when they begin to be removed from April 2011. Once removed, heavy user customers will be able to download/stream as much as they wish without having their speeds restricted.

BT will remove the FUP controls currently applied to customers with ‘atypical’ usage. Today atypical users are restricted at 300GB usage and account for less than 0.5% of the BT customer base. BT will not target any individuals with restrictions based on usage levels. However, we still have traffic management policies that will restrict certain applications / protocols, such as P2P, when the network is busy.

As BT continues to invest in the network and network bandwidth we can now remove these restrictions and ensure the experience of the wider customer base.

Balb0wa · 8 Mar 2011 at 18:22

Get mine fitted on thursday, took some doing for Bt to put an order in below 15mb, checker says il get 7mb., im quite far from the cab, but im getting 1st month free and can get out anytime.

Just hope i get a bit more than 7mb, maybe 15, all depends how good my copper is! still better than the 2mb i get now.

Pic below just shows you how it tails off compared to other phone numbers on our road

Yerman · 8 Mar 2011 at 18:42

Balb0wa said:
Get mine fitted on thursday, took some doing for Bt to put an order in below 15mb, checker says il get 7mb., im quite far from the cab, but im getting 1st month free and can get out anytime.

Just hope i get a bit more than 7mb, maybe 15, all depends how good my copper is! still better than the 2mb i get now.

Pic below just shows you how it tails off compared to other phone numbers on our road

I'd have thought you would get a lot more than 7meg, you should be able to get 20meg at about 1.5km line length on VDSL2, so I'd guess around 20-25meg for you if the copper is good.

I wish they'd start enabling more cabinets in Chesterfield, seems very random the way they've done it. Mine went in back in November and is still showing March 31st.

Balb0wa · 8 Mar 2011 at 18:48

Yerman said:
I'd have thought you would get a lot more than 7meg, you should be able to get 20meg at about 1.5km line length on VDSL2, so I'd guess around 20-25meg for you if the copper is good.

I wish they'd start enabling more cabinets in Chesterfield, seems very random the way they've done it. Mine went in back in November and is still showing March 31st.

well ive got my home hub 3, not long now, the checkers meant to under estimate it, i hope so !

My cabinet was december 31st, then it got put back to 31st march, then changed to live on feb 17th ish.

Emailed the ceo of bt to get it fitted on 2nd of march, things went very quickly and instal date of 10th

KIA · 8 Mar 2011 at 20:42

Yerman said:
The 300GB FUP is being removed from April. BT will still throttle P2P at peak times, but there will be no defined usage limit, so you won't have your speed reduced if you go over 300GB.

Gotta love traffic shaping. Nice marketing stunt, BT. :rolleyes:

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