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Anyone on this or going to switch to it? i am currently on BE who i think have been brilliant customer service wise especially but i saw BT infinity was £24.99 a month for 40mb download/10mb upload so seems like a good deal.What speed would i roughly get on infinity? about 20-25mb? i am 2400 metres roughly from my exchange but my phoneline is perfect.

Anyone here with BT or this package? what's your views? i just get the feeling they will not match BE's customer service...

Thanks.
 
Loop length from the exchange is pretty much, but not totally, irrelevant as far as BT Infinity is concerned. It's your line length to the cabinet that's important.
 
.Griff. said:
Loop length from the exchange is pretty much, but not totally, irrelevant as far as BT Infinity is concerned. It's your line length to the cabinet that's important.
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If that's the case then can they not send excess power down the line like with cable and then fit attenuators? (Sorry i have very little knowledge with adsl been cable since forever)
 
Sycho said:
Anyone on this or going to switch to it? i am currently on BE who i think have been brilliant customer service wise especially but i saw BT infinity was £24.99 a month for 40mb download/10mb upload so seems like a good deal.What speed would i roughly get on infinity? about 20-25mb? i am 2400 metres roughly from my exchange but my phoneline is perfect.

Anyone here with BT or this package? what's your views? i just get the feeling they will not match BE's customer service...

Thanks.
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I would stick with your BE account. BT are very tight with their useage. 100gig for the month. Then you are throttled until you cry.

With a 40mb download and 10mb upload then you could easily use this up in a few days.

As long as you are getting a fairly decent service/speed from BE I would stay with them.
 
bloodline76 said:
I would stick with your BE account. BT are very tight with their useage. 100gig for the month. Then you are throttled until you cry.

With a 40mb download and 10mb upload then you could easily use this up in a few days.

As long as you are getting a fairly decent service/speed from BE I would stay with them.
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Agreed.

Or if you really want BT Infinity (FTTC/VDSL) then look at IDNET or AAISP.
 
No, because like with ADSL you'd get crosstalk and it would screw up other pairs in the bundle. It only works for cable because you're all jacked into one piece of coax and there's nothing for there to be interference between.

The biggest issue with Infinity so far is you either have to use BT Wholesale's infrastructure or use BT Retail as the ISP. In either case it means you're not going to get unlimited usage.
 
i got it, and the speeds they quote they live up to their word

however if you are a heavy user its incredibly easy to get to 100GB in a month where they then cap you to 2Mbps between 5pm and 12pm, and 12am to 12pm on weekends for 30 days
 
When you consider at full theoretical speed 40mbit can do 1GB in 3.4minutes (so 100GB in 34 minutes)... it's a pathetic limit.

Sure most people won't use it anywhere near that much... but the fact that you can reach your full usage in half an hour is simply ludicrous imo.
 
crinkleshoes said:
When you consider at full theoretical speed 40mbit can do 1GB in 3.4minutes (so 100GB in 34 minutes)... it's a pathetic limit.
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You would get around 16 to 17GB per hour at full 40mbit speeds (around 5000KB/sec) so that means 100GB would take you 5 and a half to 6 hours, not 34 minutes at all.

1GB in 3 and a half minutes is right, but that means 100GB is 350 minutes, about 5 hours 50 mins ;)

Still your point remains, it's a pathetic limit.
 
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I blame4 hours sleep after a 25 hour work day... lol... oops... you're right mate... I thought I'd calculated it before and it was more than that - but just wrote it anyway - ah well...

Still... 6 hours... less than a quarter of a day to fill your months quota :S
 
I'm moving to a new house on the 1st September and the adsl speed there is so slow (1meg) but I've been informed that BT Infinity will be there at the end of September. Now, does this 100gig limited apply to them as I find it extremely stupid to offer a super fast broadband service but only limit to 100gig a month. Not everyone uses their broadband for illegal means.
 
Registered my interest with BT and had an email back saying :-

Thanks for asking about BT Infinity. Sorry to disappoint you, but it isn't available in your neighbourhood at the moment. We do have plans to make the instant internet available to everyone in the country before too long.

Keep your eye on bt.com/infinity for more news.
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Obviously, if they're only doing FTTC then it's possible, but what to they judge to be "before too long"? :(
 
Can I ask why in the areas they do have it its only 40mbs?

virgin have been doing 50 for a while now, surely they would want to release a faster or equal service?
 
Judgeneo said:
Can I ask why in the areas they do have it its only 40mbs?

virgin have been doing 50 for a while now
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Virgin = Cable/Coax
BT Infinity - FTTC/VDSL

There's only so much you can squeeze out of copper (with some aluminium chucked in here and there) wires.
 
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tolien said:
It's capable of more than 40Mbps though. Odds are it'll increase in the future.
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Of course xDSL is capable of more than 40mbps but I was answering why BT Infinity, as a product/service at this moment in time, isn't offering speeds above 40mbps compared specifically to Virgin (FO cable) as the question was put.
 
Good to 52mbps over what distance though? 300 metres absolute maximum?

I'd love to join you in a argument over specifics but the question was why BT Infinity wasn't as fast as Virgin cable which I answered accurately. Maybe not as specifically as you'd like but there we go.

Sorry if I wandered into your territory and upset the apple cart.
 
What are you blathering on about?

Yes, it's only good for 52Mbps at 300m. ADSL2+ is only capable of 24Mbps at a short loop length as well (~1km IIRC); neither of them are guaranteed or sold as such.
My point, which you seem to have missed while going off on one, was that there was nothing stopping BT selling Infinity as up-to-50Mbps, the same as they're currently selling it as up-to-40Mbps. Some people won't get the headline speed either way, woop-di-doo.
 
Are they not going to use VDSL2? Seems silly to use the older technology, VDSL2 is capable of up to 250mb/s, then they could challenge VM for speed.

I was considering VDSL but after seeing how much it costs it makes VM the cheaper option, also rumours are VM may crank 50mb to 100mb and talks of higher upload which would be nice.
 
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