Changing to BT Infinity

wildest_jjk · 19 Feb 2012 at 15:37

Hey guys,

So I am currently on O2 broadband and receive a download speed of about 10Mbps. I am considering changing to fibre optic, however I have no experience with this what so ever.

The package I have been looking at is BT Infinity up to 40Mbps download and 10Mbps upload. The speed I would receive is apparently pretty close to this.

Does anybody have any experience with BT infinity? Are they the best fibre optic provider? Is the service reliable? And is it worth it?

Thanks a lot

Spenty · 19 Feb 2012 at 16:41

Had mine 3 months now, 40/10 speeds consistently, very low pings. They throttle p2p at certain time but I don't use it anyway.

KIA · 19 Feb 2012 at 16:42

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18239808

wildest_jjk · 19 Feb 2012 at 17:08

Thanks for the responses. I use xbox live quite a lot and I hope it wouldn't effect that too much!

How does the installation work, how do they install everything? What is the equipment and cables that they use?

Thanks everyone.

chriselks · 19 Feb 2012 at 18:14

Ive had it two weeks, after being promised speeds of 30mb, im getting 12 and have been informed data enters my house at a maximum of 13mb and the only way ill get anywhere near the speeds I was advised of would be to dig up my road and relay new cable. Shockingly seeing as im the only user on my road thats not financially viable so i get stuck with it!

Phemo · 19 Feb 2012 at 18:25

wildest_jjk said:
Thanks for the responses. I use xbox live quite a lot and I hope it wouldn't effect that too much!

How does the installation work, how do they install everything? What is the equipment and cables that they use?

Thanks everyone.

I'm on it too and it's fine. XBL works nicely too.

Forget that it's "fibre" as you won't see anything to do with that. It's VDSL from the street cabinet to your house so it still comes over your regular phone line and no new cables are needed into your house.

For installation a BT tech will install a filtered faceplate onto your master phone socket and just like with an ADSL faceplate or plug-in filter this will give you an RJ11 socket which you use to connect the VDSL modem (also brought along by the BT tech). After that it's down to you - if you went with BT Infinity then you'll be given a Home Hub 3 which you plug into the VDSL modem or you can simply use your own router as long as it has an Ethernet port for the Internet facing interface. You can't use any ADSL kit.