BT Infinity-worth the extra?

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BT rang me to say I can now go on Infinity.
Is it worth the £6 a month extra?
I have a Dell PC which was top of the range but that was in 2004- it must be totally obsolete by now but does what I need. However upload/download sometime seems to go on a go slow.
Also they say I need 1GB of Ram- it only has 512MB. Would that work, if not can I increase it?
They want to connect to the Master socket, I have two but don't know which(if either) is the master,all the cables are under the carpet and I can't see a connection box outside the house.

I'm getting 10.1 download, 0.77 upload. They promise 48.7/10.9.

I don't download films/albums etc. or play online games.
Can the above problems be sorted, will I see a difference and-do I actually need it? And of course will it be worth it?

All advice welcome and as you can see-needed.
Thanks,
Gordon.
 
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Do you use any on demand services(like sky) that require internet?

How are you testing your internet speed?
 
master socket.
thinkbroadband :: BT Master Socket Identifical Tool for BT Broadband Accelerator / BT I-Plate

Use this guide to help determine master socket.

However 10MB is perfect for your needs. Upload is a bit rubbish but i imagine good enough for what you need. Upload is rubbish for most of us on DSL....

Think of this as a scale-- Now you think of how far you are from the Exchange which is somewhere close to town I guess....

Peel Area = 20MB (i know I get that speed)
Clayton-Le-Moors 4-6MB (i lived there for a while) further away you are the slower the speed.

BT infinity would be essential for me if I was with BT. But 20MB is more than fast enough for me. For now

IMO the best way to test your speed is to use something where the speed is for certain going to be fast. For this test I use newsgroups or a Torrent that is seeded well(Torrent is getting used a lot these days for distributing free software)

I have found online speed testers to be somewhat inaccurate. I have had them say 4MB when I have downloaded Ubuntu via torrent at 20MB.

Speedtest.net - The Global Broadband Speed Test

This is a decent enough test site. And you can embed the results. Here is mine



So much for 2.5 upload speed....
 
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Thanks, Restless, I ran the speedtest and got 10.21 download, 0.97 upload so slightly higher readings than BT gave me.
What do you mean by 'embed the results'?
 
I've had infinity for a few weeks Gordon, and in comparison my laptop is like grease lightening, and I'm just had my Sky box wire to the Internet today and will be watching plenty of on demand programs from sky, to me its Bean more than worth it
 
Press share results then press forum then copy and paste the code here. Embed is what I did with my results
 
Better off telling them you were thinking of switching to another supplier, that way it won't cost you an extra £6 per month ;)
 
Ping times on BT are never very good.

I just upset my lad when I did this test, he was playing on xbox live at the time :D

Virgin upload speeds are quite poor now compared to BT

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This was my lad showing off on facebook when he moved house and had his broadband installed

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M speed is a bit poor compared to others.




this embedding is a bit tricky at first.
 
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Claytoner!

Hey my mum is on BT infinity. So you might be able to get the faster speed with talk talk....

Neil said:
This was my lad showing off on facebook when he moved house and had his broadband installed

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1ms ping!!!

:)
 
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Restless said:
Claytoner!

Hey my mum is on BT infinity. So you might be able to get the faster speed with talk talk....



1ms ping!!!

:)
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He tested it on the Preston server and he is 60 miles away.
I can ftp from him at very nice speeds as in this picture, that's a 735,557,632 byte file downloading in about 9 1/2 minutes using Filezilla at this end and server is a DNS-320 NAS box at the other end. File name rubbed out intentionally :rolleyes:

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Neil said:
I like my SGS3 and for a tablet I have a Note 10.1 which I tether to my phone for internet when needed
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I had a 9" JXB(from china) I gave it to my mum when I got the Kindle. The extra screen space is nice but the tablet was low spec and wow you really do notice a big difference on an android device with the higher specs.

Nice s3. My friend has one of those. Are you a Samsung fan or is it just coincidence that s3 and note(or was it contract package deal)?

Margaret Pilkington said:
So have you kicked the Kindle Fire into touch then Rob?
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I have managed to root the Kindle Fire HD. After rooting there is an app you can download that does all the work to get an alternative launcher installed and get play store installed.

Then I used a script that was designed to stop automatic updates. You don't get a choice to say no to the kindle to stop the updates from happening, the device just turned off and updated! If that happens Root would be lost.

By rooting and installing a custom launcher etc it breaks the book apps that the kindle was originally designed for. This was warned but since I won't use the Kindle to read books and that I use it as a Tablet(well it is a tablet afterall) this does't bother me.
 
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