Reply to: BT infinity thingy

[wxman]

Loginto bt.com

Under broadband services ther is a link "Upgrade my Broadband"

[jatinder]

Hi wxman,

Where/how did you apply for the free speed upgrade?

Thanks,
--Jatinder

I just applied for my BT Infinity speed upgrade (free!) - it took 12 hours to come through.

I am on fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) and I am 700 metes from the cabinet.

I now have 62Mb download with 14Mb upload for £26/month unlimited download cap.

What a result!

[blacjac]

The house we are moving to in June can get Infinity 2.....

Gonna be a bit of a change from the 1.4MB we've had to live with out in the sticks

[filthy1980]

had infinity since the start of the year, was getting around 32mbps download and 9mbps upload

recently though wireless routher has been playing up and only getting 5mbps DL & 7mbps UL resetting it occassionally works, so troubleshooted using wired connectionm, on which i got 78mpbs DL & 18mbps UL

contemplating re-cabling my whole house with cat 6 cables and sockets now

oh and i would def recommend the newsgroups route for DL, have cleaner and faster then any other method

[wxman]

I just applied for my BT Infinity speed upgrade (free!) - it took 12 hours to come through.

I am on fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) and I am 700 metes from the cabinet.

I now have 62Mb download with 14Mb upload for £26/month unlimited download cap.

What a result!

[scooby]

Sky are about to offer it, trailing it now, only 2mb up tho but no BT-style throttling of P2P

Thats my reason for asking... No other provider interests or rarely match their price.

Zen are my local ISP (Rochdale) but didnt like their customer service years ago, and generally where on the top end of price.

[d000hg]

The Soviet 'shelf' toilet, ahh, you get to check your stools before flushing....

Aren't those the norm in present-day Japan?

[russell]

I thought that no matter what you do with torrent there is no way you could completely hide from BT the fact you are using torrent hence you will still get throttled. I'll give it a try tonight to see if it works tho






They seem to be expensive, and I am not so sure I would want to trust them with my card details for re-occuring payments





these usernet stuff was before my time in IT so have no clue what ist all about. Any chance you can give me some links to get started


css_jay99

You need to pay a monthly subscription to a binary usenet server , I use thunder news, pay using PayPal. The you install sabnzB+ and configure it to point to your server. Now you use nzbmatrix website to search for stuff to download, you simple download the nzb file and open it with San and you are done.

You usually get the last year of uploads but you get old stuff reposted a lot.

[stek]

I don't think encryption will stop it, and my seedbox is 9 quid a mo via paypal.

100mb/100mb, no real limits - so bloody quick I think it's not taken the torrent link, when in fact it's already downloaded it before the browser had time to refresh. Then use Transmit (if Mac) to download it from there at full 40mbs.

Or you could use TOR or a VPN?

Usenet (NNTP) is as old as the internet but you'll need a news server such as EasyNews and don't count on getting anything old movie wise, the retention times arent that good.

[css_jay99]

Encrypt your p2p data using uTorrent.

GE

I thought that no matter what you do with torrent there is no way you could completely hide from BT the fact you are using torrent hence you will still get throttled. I'll give it a try tonight to see if it works tho

Seedbox

They seem to be expensive, and I am not so sure I would want to trust them with my card details for re-occuring payments

Don't use P2P use Usenet Binary Server like Thundernews along with NZBMAtrix and SabNZB+. You are downloading from an actual server so it's full speed from start to finish and SSL.

these usernet stuff was before my time in IT so have no clue what ist all about. Any chance you can give me some links to get started


css_jay99

[stek]

I have unlimited infinity and its great! ..... comming from a 1mb connection

Except for throttling of P2P traffic

whats the best way to get round this throttling ?


css_jay99

Seedbox

[russell]

I have unlimited infinity and its great! ..... comming from a 1mb connection

Except for throttling of P2P traffic

whats the best way to get round this throttling ?


css_jay99

Don't use P2P use Usenet Binary Server like Thundernews along with NZBMAtrix and SabNZB+. You are downloading from an actual server so it's full speed from start to finish and SSL.

[garethevans1986]

Encrypt your p2p data using uTorrent.

GE

[css_jay99]

I have unlimited infinity and its great! ..... comming from a 1mb connection

Except for throttling of P2P traffic

whats the best way to get round this throttling ?


css_jay99

[Darksider]

Make sure you disable WPS (wifi protected setup) on the Homehub as it's vulnerable to wireless hacking attacks. BT have addressed the issue and should be turning WPS off as default on newer models.