BT Infinity - any good

[Durbs]

Speedtest (and numerous downloads of loads of tv I've missed) shows I'm actually getting a solid 35.5 meg. Absolutely stunned.

Just had our Infinity plumbed in and whilst they quoted around 15MB due to our distance from the box its ended up actually being 24MB

Much better than the 2.5 we were getting with Sky!

Gone for the unlimited package which has a monthly fair use policy of 300GB which i'm pretty likely to exceed so will see what happens then.

[nomadd]

The FTTC cab is just round the corner from me, but I get most of my stuff from thebox.bz, torrent, I could use an anonymiser/VPN but I'm nervous of taking the plunge, getting a good 16mb from Be at moment with no restrictions, and I'd be loath to lose it if it went mammaries uppermost....

Maybe I'll have both? One for business! I was paying 75 quid a mo. for dual ISDN not that long ago!

Yeah, I'm a bit of a tight-wad, TBH.

It was the fact that the upgrade was only going to cost me £6 a month more than O2 were charging me that made me take the plunge. And now I see it's 8-9 times faster, well, it was money well spent, even for a tight-wad like me. With the discount they gave me off my line rental (using D.D. and paying it one year up-front knocked off £4.50 / month), the switch means that my broadband works out at £21 / month; that's not too shabby for 35.5 meg. As you say, it wasn't that long ago we were paying far, far more for a fraction of the speed.

If you are getting a solid 16meg from Be then I'd stick with it for now. Have a look around next year when BT are supposed to be upgrading Infinity to an 80 meg service and do their FTTH service (100-300 meg, from what I've been reading.) Mind you, by then I guess Be/O2 might be offering a much faster service as well.

[nomadd]

Gone for the unlimited package which has a monthly fair use policy of 300GB which i'm pretty likely to exceed so will see what happens then.

How on earth do you use 300GB!!!????

I'd say a "heavy" month for me is 40GB, and even that's a rarity.

Are you really that determined to own every piece of porn every released?

[nomadd]

The thing I was most impressed when changing ISP was how quickly it switched over - about 2 hours of downtime with no engineer to visit. A few years ago, it took days or weeks!

Yeah, this took about 1 hour to switch over.

Needed an engineer, though, as Infinity requires a new type of socket installed (which is about 2-3 times thicker than the old one - god knows what's in it...)

[stek]

How on earth do you use 300GB!!!????

I'd say a "heavy" month for me is 40GB, and even that's a rarity.

Are you really that determined to own every piece of porn every released?

I'd read that the 300gb limit is gone now too on unlimited. Easy to do that tho with streaming, I've done 13gb wifi on the iPhone alone this month and with seven people* with iPhones in this house that's a potential, err, 7 times 13, about err, 70, carry the 3, times it by 7, errr, 70 plus 21, err, is, err, 5. No, 91gb. Feck me!

Anyway it's not porn, it's Linux Distros apparently...

*me, the current mrs stek and five kids, not sure how many are mine....

[EternalOptimist]

Yep. I got my BT connection switched to infinity last week and the performance has rocketed. not just the speed, but the reliability

[Freamon]

How on earth do you use 300GB!!!????

I'd say a "heavy" month for me is 40GB, and even that's a rarity.

Are you really that determined to own every piece of porn every released?

That's impossible.

In 1994, 90% of internet traffic was used for porn.

It's still the same today.

[nomadd]

In 1994, 90% of internet traffic was used for porn.

It's still the same today.

I bow to your expertise on this subject.