BT offers totally unlimited broadband at lower prices

[Undertaker]

just seen a new BT fibre cabinet installed at the end of my street in blackburn

hopefully not long now

[ant3b]

Undertaker where abouts? I'm on pleasingtons exchange :-(

[BertRoot]

They have been doing them round me for a couple of months but says June on the pdf file.

[joeninety0]

They have been doing them round me for a couple of months but says June on the pdf file.

they just changed the cover on my cab heys lane blackburn dslam to be fitted shortly hopefully bout 3 month before working

[ant3b]

Joe what exchange are you on I suspect Blackburn

[Thrush]

New customers now also get the first six months free, offering a big saving at the entry point for unlimited BT broadband.

Shit like this really boils my piss. If it was six months 'free' on a twelve month contract then fine. But the day's of twelve months seem to be vanishing to be replaced with eighteen months / two year set-ups.

[Northernbloke]

I signed up yesterday BT Infinity 2, 18 month contract - no 6 months free, just the first 3 months at £20 instead of £26 - according the BT website the free 6 months is only available on the cheaper packages

I'm a new customer to BT broadband (but not to BT as my landline has always been with them)

[Undertaker]

Blackburn exchange.... New cabinet just on corner of where Pringle street meets Lincoln road

130 metres away from cabinet... Happy days soon

[lloydi]

dont hold ya breath mate i have had a shiny fibre cab at the end of my road since September and its still not active

[andyinlondon]

I will never get fibre here, our exchange serves 350 properties, we got ADSL in 2005 and ADSL Max in 2006 But as there are so few people here and most are old I tend to get the full 8mb.

we could almost be neighbours but our exchange serves 640 residential premises, but the adsl and max dates are the same.
no llu and no fibre and no plans for our exchange to be enabled.

the only slight glimmer of hope is the scottish government are leaning on providers to have next gen broadband available to the whole of scotland by 2020 with the majority connected by 2015. (but who trusts politicians though)

[EvilBoB]

The infinity 2 is the one i had installed on monday. You will prob get a faster speed as my quote was 50Mb on BT's site.. once installed the BT chap tested the line and told me 66Mb down, 17Mb up. A speednet test did hit 61Mb which is 10x what i was getting on the old broadband

Because of packet overheads with xDSL tech you will never get the full speed that you are synched to the exchange/dslam with. 61mbps is very respectable.

[Northernbloke]

if you can get infinity you'll practically get the speeds on the adverts. BT have done the infinity rollout strategically so areas can only get it if they will get the advertised speed

Got Infinity 2 installed yesterday, Quoted 54 Mb upload, and 18 down - actual speed is 43 down and 8 up - quite a big difference - installer (was about 16 years old) made a right mess of drilling a hole through one of internal walls - didn't put a dust sheet or anything down, didn't ask for a hoover (or bring his own) just left a fecking mess and expected me to clean it up He also used 4 faceplates before he got a working one and kept whining about how high a failure rate the faceplates had got, - hardly a great advert for a new flagship product.

Anyway he said the line speed will fluctuate for up to 10 days but will almost certainly settle comewhere close to what I've got now.

[ant3b]

Well there is a date for my exchange now 2015 haha :-(

[supraman54]

Got Infinity 2 installed yesterday, Quoted 54 Mb upload, and 18 down - actual speed is 43 down and 8 up - quite a big difference - installer (was about 16 years old) made a right mess of drilling a hole through one of internal walls - didn't put a dust sheet or anything down, didn't ask for a hoover (or bring his own) just left a fecking mess and expected me to clean it up He also used 4 faceplates before he got a working one and kept whining about how high a failure rate the faceplates had got, - hardly a great advert for a new flagship product.

Anyway he said the line speed will fluctuate for up to 10 days but will almost certainly settle comewhere close to what I've got now.

Way back in the distant past when I worked for BT that was almost a hanging offence.. we always cleaned up, used a detector on walls before we drilled and never whinged about quality of what we were installing.. I'm afraid the blame does lie with BT though because they employ Openreach "engineeers" (that word may not actually be applicable to these guys) and give them hardly any training.
All in all your experience should be related back to BT even if, as is likely, nothing will be done to improve their installers practices.
I hope it does settle closer to the suggested speeds

supe

[raelmadrid]

been looking at eclipse bonded x4 - £190 a month lol

[CominAtcha]

Got my BT Infinity at the weekend. Can't complain!

[Undertaker]

For blackburn

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk...illion_scheme/

http://www.superfastlancashire.com/home


2013

fibre on demand too?

[4me2]

we could almost be neighbours but our exchange serves 640 residential premises, but the adsl and max dates are the same.
no llu and no fibre and no plans for our exchange to be enabled.

the only slight glimmer of hope is the scottish government are leaning on providers to have next gen broadband available to the whole of scotland by 2020 with the majority connected by 2015. (but who trusts politicians though)

I will never get fibre here, our exchange serves 350 properties, we got ADSL in 2005 and ADSL Max in 2006 But as there are so few people here and most are old I tend to get the full 8mb.

Do you guys have anything like this in your area ?

http://whippetinternet.com/

I've just seen it might be available to me so I might apply for it as there's no Infinity even on my horizon.

[baggy13]

Still no sign of adslx2 upgrade on sky for me despite it going live 2 months ago ringing bt this week for a quote despite saying I'd never go back to them

[4me2]

I will never get fibre here, our exchange serves 350 properties, we got ADSL in 2005 and ADSL Max in 2006 But as there are so few people here and most are old I tend to get the full 8mb.

Have you looked at this ?

http://www.fibrewifi.com/about-us