BTInfinity Is it Worth It?

[chauhan]

Well, had it installed yesterday and no problems so far. The engineer said I will be getting the full 40mb, but on speed checks its only 33/34mb. Still faster than my pervious connection so lets see what happens.

[Goldberg]

Make sure the modem is well ventilated.

Not had an issue with mine (yet), but I have read that some folks are overheating as a result of not giving it enough space etc..
All in all however, very please with it.

[Sanj[UK]]

Sorry for hijacking the thread but I just called o2 to get my MAC code. I have never had a problem with them. I consistently get 14-1500kb/s with them. I am paying £18/m and I told them I am considering BT Infinity. They said they can do my existing package for £8.75/m (for 12 months) and chuck in a Thompson wireless N router.

I think it is a good deal. What do you think?

The thompson router can be yours fOr £10 in the store for existing customers..its wank too.

[Tim.Lad]

I got given one when they where trying to sort my problems out but to be honest it was just as crap as all the others

[Over Carl]

Can the supplied router be put into bridge mode?

Or are there any compatible modems (not router)?

[tom999]

Assume multiple public IP's are not an option on any of the fibre providers?

[chauhan]

Hmmm...seems to be mega slow with torrents this evening.

[Goldberg]

But is that not the torrent rather than the connection?

[chauhan]

nope, the connection. well, not even the whole connection just torrent downloads. after midnight tho the speed shot right back up to full speed. will have to look at getting a NAS or setting up something for overnight/daytime downloads.

[willp2003]

I've had mine a few days now, and it's spot on. Only costing me an extra £1 a month. Getting 38MB down and 9MB up, but that will depend on the time of day.
The engineer said they were trialling 80mb in some areas. He said my line was capable of 100MB down and 40MB up. I was impressed with the engineer though, when deciding where to put the new master socket, and taking his time to run the cables in neatly.
Waiting for a new nettop PC and wireless N adapter for my laptop to make the most of it.

[Tim.Lad]

Looks like BT are getting ready to roll out the 80/20 service the wholesale checker has been updated...

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 59.8Mbps and upstream line speed of 20Mbps.

I should mention i know my line has a max attainable rate of 120/34 so these result are a bit conservative

[4me2]

BT fattens fibre customer pipes for free - with a contract extension

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Posted in Telecoms, 11th April 2012 15:42 GMT
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BT broadband customers who subscribe to the company's Infinity 2 package will see their fibre download speeds nearly double from tomorrow, the national telco has promised.
Those punters will see current downstream speeds boosted from 38Mbit/s to "up to" 76Mbps on 12 April.
BT has said for some time now that its Infinity customers would soon gain access to a faster broadband network served via its fibre-to-the-cabinet (FTTC) technology.

The company added that the increases, which include upstream speeds of "up to" 19Mbit/s, would not lead to cost hikes for its customers.
Those subscribers on BT's Infinity 1 package will also see their broadband download speeds swell to "up to" 38Mbps and with upload speeds that could reach 9.5Mbit/s, it said.
Here's the rub, though: Existing customers already signed up to Infinity will be required to agree a new contract – at no extra cost – with BT before being able to access the new speeds.
The Register asked BT to explain why this was necessary and to also tell us how long an existing subscriber would be required to be tied into that "new contract"?
A BT spokesman confirmed that such a customer would first need to order a "regrade" from the company before "extending" their contract to another 12 or another 18 months.
"The new term starts from when we upgrade [their] service," he said.
“Super-fast broadband is helping people enjoy the internet far more than ever before. However, many providers have forgotten about the importance of fast upload speeds," said BT consumer managing director John Petter.


"BT believes that fast upstream speeds are vital given how people now use the internet and so we are distancing ourselves from the competition by providing the UK’s fastest upload speed.”
Roughly seven million premises in Blighty can currently upgrade to BT's Infinity products. The company is hoping to "pass" 10 million homes and businesses this year as part of its £2.5bn investment in fibre upgrades for two-thirds of the country.
The company is also bidding for government funds from the £680m BDUK pot for rural and urban areas. BT is the only telco to have secured such an investment so far.
Of course, those theoretical maximum speeds could greatly vary for customers depending on how far away their homes are from the street side cabinets installed by BT's Openreach engineers that tie copper phone lines to BT's fibre optic tech.
The company is offering a "mixed economy" broadband network, with most of it being FTTC. The more desirable FTTP technology, that involves blowing fibre directly into a premises, is much harder and more time-consuming to roll out – as we discovered here.
BT recently talked up a product dubbed "FTTP on demand", that will eventually allow cabinets to carry faster broadband speeds of "up to" 300Mbps – at a hefty cost. Consequently, the company isn't punting that service to the consumer market, and is instead targeting businesses.
Meanwhile, seeing as BT mentioned its cable rival in its statement advertising the the Infinity upgrade, we thought it would be a good idea to get Virgin Media's response.
A spokesman at the UK's second largest ISP told us:
"This is good news for Britain that BT is trying to 'Keep Up' with Virgin Media ... We've now completed our roll-out of 100Mbit/s to 13 million homes and now we're boosting our customers' speeds up to 120Mbps – that’s some 50 per cent faster than BT's top speed." ®

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04...peed_increase/

[Tim.Lad]

Sign me up I'm 3 months into my contract now we know be are not getting fibre till 2013 resigning for 18 months for 80 is a no brainier

[Goldberg]

Same position here. Will be calling them today

[Tim.Lad]

Same position here. Will be calling them today

you can do it on-line now provided you haven't used the line saver when you had it installed..

http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=29280

[willp2003]

Sweeeet! just placed my order online

[Tim.Lad]

5 min call and my order is done the online order system does not work if you have line saver

[Goldberg]

Good news! We predict your download speed will now be 63Mb/s and your upload speed will now be 20Mb/s

Excellent To think only 2 months ago I was on 6mb down with about 800kb up!

[Goldberg]

You can claim Sainsburys vouchers if you recently placed an order in the last dew months.
Trying to do this but cannot find any correspondence with the VOL number... https://www.vouchers.bt.com/offer/sa.../claim/process

[willp2003]

Did they say how long it would take to activate, or is it live now? Might follow my order up with a call tonight.