Reply to: BT Infinity - any good

[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.

[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.

[EternalOptimist]

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

[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....

[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...)

[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 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.

[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.

[d000hg]

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!

[stek]

No idea. Never use it. However, Web and NNTP from my favorite news provider is flying along full speed without problems, even in "peak" hours.

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!

[gingerjedi]

Race To Infinity And Beyond - League Table for BT Race To Infinity - Fibre Broadband League Table, Leaderboard and Exchange Search

Kin'ell I wont be getting it any time in the next couple of years.

It seems small well organised villages managed to get nearly every (in some cases all) eligible people to vote.

Less than 1% voted in my home town.

[nomadd]

Is P2P throttled?

No idea. Never use it. However, Web and NNTP from my favorite news provider is flying along full speed without problems, even in "peak" hours.

[stek]

OK, quick update on my original post, just in case anyone is ever insane enough to use Search in General (for BT Infinity.)

Engineer arrived on time. Good start.

Install took about an hour. New box in house. He was very happy to rewire it to the room upstairs I use as my office (old box was downstairs by the front door.)

It's fibre to the local cabinet - which is unfortunately about 1/2 mile away in my case! Good old copper wire to the house from that cabinet, so I wasn't expecting great speed with this much copper. BT line-checker had suggested 23.8 meg; I doubted that realistically.

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

Engineer said "to 80 meg, with still copper last leg" will be available early next year. Had no idea when fibre to the home would be available.

So, happy days.

Thanks to all who replied.

Is P2P throttled?

[nomadd]

OK, so I get the email in my inbox today that BT are now offering their Infinity package in my postcode.

OK, quick update on my original post, just in case anyone is ever insane enough to use Search in General (for BT Infinity.)

Engineer arrived on time. Good start.

Install took about an hour. New box in house. He was very happy to rewire it to the room upstairs I use as my office (old box was downstairs by the front door.)

It's fibre to the local cabinet - which is unfortunately about 1/2 mile away in my case! Good old copper wire to the house from that cabinet, so I wasn't expecting great speed with this much copper. BT line-checker had suggested 23.8 meg; I doubted that realistically.

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

Engineer said "to 80 meg, with still copper last leg" will be available early next year. Had no idea when fibre to the home would be available.

So, happy days.

Thanks to all who replied.

[Freamon]

My experience of Plusnet (indirectly) hasn't been great. They're notorious traffic shapers and their backhaul seems awfully congested at times.

I'd rather get my service from a proper ISP (Bethere) but unfortunately they aren't offering FTTC yet.