BT Infinity
- Thread starter maxthecollie
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you're right giggas and megass confuse me - both mean 'big'
Are you not better off with sky for your phone and internet seeing as you have sky tv?
I got rid of SKY TV years ago.
I am compelled to pay for a communal ariel that would provide it, but I gave away the box about 5years ago and stopped paying any Sky subs about 7 years ago.
I am not interested in paying for any TV coverage.
The few programmes (mainly drama) that I want to watch are available online.
When my TV set 'dies' I won't be replacing it.
I watched the last two matches of the season, Man U on one channel and flicked about watching Man C on another using Sky go with my laptop linked to the TV, it was a very good picture, nu buffering but used 3 gig.
Now it is unlimited I have no worries.
I don't watch TV much less still Skygo but it's there if I want it.
Max,
I live in Rossendale & had Infinity installed last October when it first became available here. It was the 'up to' 38Mb down, 9.5 Mb up speed with a 40GB cap option.
I was getting around 25Mb download and around 6Mb upload. The closer you are to those green BT street boxes, the better. I'm around 100 meters away.
This was a lot faster than i was receiving before & was happy with it with the exception of the 40GB limit.
BT kept telling me i was using over the 40GB most months. As an example, in May they claimed i used on average 3.75GB/day for the first 13 days. These figures were not possible.
As i will be doing more work over broadband in the next few months, i upgraded (12 month contract) to their go faster, unlimited download option of up to 76Mb/19Mb. I'm getting around 55Mb/19Mb.
Its good, its reliable & if you get a capped service, assume BT will lie, so measure it yourself from day one.
I live in Rossendale & had Infinity installed last October when it first became available here. It was the 'up to' 38Mb down, 9.5 Mb up speed with a 40GB cap option.
I was getting around 25Mb download and around 6Mb upload. The closer you are to those green BT street boxes, the better. I'm around 100 meters away.
This was a lot faster than i was receiving before & was happy with it with the exception of the 40GB limit.
BT kept telling me i was using over the 40GB most months. As an example, in May they claimed i used on average 3.75GB/day for the first 13 days. These figures were not possible.
As i will be doing more work over broadband in the next few months, i upgraded (12 month contract) to their go faster, unlimited download option of up to 76Mb/19Mb. I'm getting around 55Mb/19Mb.
Its good, its reliable & if you get a capped service, assume BT will lie, so measure it yourself from day one.
Whilst I was restricted to 10GB I read my usage monitor every day.
If you have wireless enabled on you homehub, you take the risk that a neighbour is 'piggybacking' your connection.
I disabled the wireless facility at the hub and use an ethernet cable.
I found out how to on BT's community forum
How to disable WiFi - BTCare Community Forums
If you have wireless enabled on you homehub, you take the risk that a neighbour is 'piggybacking' your connection.
I disabled the wireless facility at the hub and use an ethernet cable.
I found out how to on BT's community forum
How to disable WiFi - BTCare Community Forums
Ya that's why I'm ringing them, at the moment just logging onto AccyWeb uses nout, but if I link to Sky it will cost me a fortune
Sky don't support my emergency lifeline Neil or I Would have changed to them over 12 months ago, I had everything in place, then I mentioned my lifeline and they pulled the plug, their phone line won't support it
Margaret, I have the same BT package as you...but in the time I have been on BT I have only once got anywhere close to my download limit(and this was by accident - my mouse had an epileptic fit while downloading a music LP in MP3 format from Amazon - it dowloaded the same music about 43 times). I download very little I mainly use my machine to e-mail, browse, use accyweb and upload pictures to flickr....I will await your reports on infinity, but I doubt it would be worthwhile for me.
To be honest I haven't a clue how much I use never have, just know that if I start watching films it will probably cost me an arm and a leg, that's thanks to MargaretR telling us about over use when she first got BT Broadband and she was using Iplayer
Is the hub different to the ordinary new BT hub, I had that big white box until earlier this year until an engineer came out regarding a fault and he changed it then
I still have the same hub, but it is now linked to a small white box(about the same size as an exterior hard drive), which it sits on.
The only inconvenience I found is the 'white box' also needs a power supply.
Well I will be fine I have a extension with my hub plugged into which has two spare sockets, sorted
Margaret, did they have to run the fibre optic cable right to your house or just to the cabinet in the road nearby and then the old copper wire from the cabinet to the hub?
What I mean by cabinet is the green box that sits on the ground nearby and connects to the exchange.
There is a cabinet about 50 yards from me which is now connected to the fibre optic network, then copper wire runs from the cabinet through an underground tube to my house.
I was told that I cannot have BTinfinity yet as I am not on the network.
I get 10Mb download speed mostly and have unlimited download so I am not too bothered about upgrading when it is ready.
It is certainly fast enough to watch football on SkyGo via the laptop without buffering.
What I mean by cabinet is the green box that sits on the ground nearby and connects to the exchange.
There is a cabinet about 50 yards from me which is now connected to the fibre optic network, then copper wire runs from the cabinet through an underground tube to my house.
I was told that I cannot have BTinfinity yet as I am not on the network.
I get 10Mb download speed mostly and have unlimited download so I am not too bothered about upgrading when it is ready.
It is certainly fast enough to watch football on SkyGo via the laptop without buffering.
He certainly did no 'laying of cables'.
I got a phone call at about 8.30 when he told me that he was about to disconnect my phone and would be visiting me shortly. I presume that he was at the nearest outside/street junction box when he made that call, and there would already be fibre optics from the exchange to that box.
He did no work on the copper cable which comes from that street box.
It is the fibre optic length which supplies the speed, and the copper wire length which reduces it. That's why speed can vary between nearby properties. The one with the shortest length of copper gets the best internet speed.
The logistics of your property sound similar to mine
Maybe the fact that there are virgin cables laid in this road has made a difference. I don't know enough about the technical aspects to say anything for definite.
I got a phone call at about 8.30 when he told me that he was about to disconnect my phone and would be visiting me shortly. I presume that he was at the nearest outside/street junction box when he made that call, and there would already be fibre optics from the exchange to that box.
He did no work on the copper cable which comes from that street box.
It is the fibre optic length which supplies the speed, and the copper wire length which reduces it. That's why speed can vary between nearby properties. The one with the shortest length of copper gets the best internet speed.
The logistics of your property sound similar to mine
Maybe the fact that there are virgin cables laid in this road has made a difference. I don't know enough about the technical aspects to say anything for definite.
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