Infinity 2 installed yesterday, cant get my head around download \ wireless speed

[BolshieBastard]

Okay so the 100Mbps was plucked from the air, as I'm slowly learning at these things.

Could it be that I can have FTTC and fibre to my house or does it not work like that?

qh

Why would you have FTTC and Fibre To The Home (FTTH) if you can get them?

FTTH is fibre cable all the way from the exchange to your home and to the BT modem. Its generally only certain cities that are getting this with new builds in those cities likely being the priority. FTTH can deliver 160mb (so BT claim).

FTTC is fibre cable from the exchange to the local green roadside cabinet that provides your telephone connection to the network. The original twin copper wire from the cabinet to your home is still used and this limits the max download speed.

FTTC can currently only provide a maximum 76mb download and, the further the cabinet is away from your home, the slower your max download speed will be.

Im now on FTTC so a max of 76mb is 'available.' My local cabinet is about 600 metres away (following the roads). Im getting 56mb download to my home and 53+mb from the Home Hub3 to my lappy via a LAN cable (according to the BT Infinity speed test although Im still in the '10 day training period' ho, ho!).

If you could get both FTTC and FTTH installed to your home, you'd take one or the other depending on how much you want to pay, whether you want more speed etc.

HTH.

[quackhandle]

Cheers for replies.

qh

[Mr.Whippy]

Had BT Infinity 2 installed yesterday, on the speed test I did this morning with nothing else connected to the network, download speed to home was 53mbps and upload 12mbps. Impressive compared to the 6mbps on adsl I used to get.

How are you finding Infinity 2 now you've had it a while? I'm moving house to a fibre area in the next few weeks and just deciding which ISP to use, either Sky or BT....

I'll mostly be using it for VOD (NetFlix, LoveFilm, iPlayer & Sky Go).