Moving to the dark side..

[Technical Ben]

To be honest, I've been on Infinity for several months now (not my choice but I didn't get a say in the matter), and I can honestly say that there's no peak time slowdown, and of the two problems we've had, both happened at around midnight, 1am, and both were resolved within 12 hours. It seems BT have made a better job of infinity than they made of ADSL.

I guess they saw the trouble of copper and thought "anything is better than the mess we created last time!" 
Glad to hear the main bugs and problems that seemed to be around with the trials is gone.

[psp83]

To be honest, I've been on Infinity for several months now (not my choice but I didn't get a say in the matter), and I can honestly say that there's no peak time slowdown, and of the two problems we've had, both happened at around midnight, 1am, and both were resolved within 12 hours. It seems BT have made a better job of infinity than they made of ADSL.

Do you live quite far from the FTTC cab then to get 17 Mb/s?

[Glenn]

For my 33 - 37mb, I'm about 600m from the cabinet, but those few metres are playing havoc with the ping, it was 16ms during the summer, now it's 29ms.

[Steve]

I think a lot will depend on how BT Retail cope with the increasing expansion & uptake of FTTC over the coming months and years. How much will they spend on their own backbone to cope with the inevitable increased data load. It maybe a honeymoon period at present as customers will  I believe be slow to change their internet habits from adsl times to the new availability of high quality streamed content, time will tell.

[psp83]

For my 33 - 37mb, I'm about 600m from the cabinet, but those few metres are playing havoc with the ping, it was 16ms during the summer, now it's 29ms.

I'm about 340m from my cab, the one they originally commissioned me on was over 900m away.

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[TheMonkey]

So I'm moving to the Dark Side also and have signed up for BT Infinity 2. Line should get 54 down and 10 up which isn't too shabby.  I'm crushing my allowance at the moment and had no choice but to move.

Don't laugh but I signed up on Friday the 13th   

[Technical Ben]

Just pretend your Chinese, Hebrew or any of the other calendars. Well, except Mayan...

[pctech]

Don't laugh but I signed up on Friday the 13th   

sorry

[sof2er]

I'm contemplating on moving as well, currently on the biggest fibre package and I'm still going through all peak usage before the month ends (100GB+) whereas my off-peak usage is only around 75 GB (300 GB).

[TheMonkey]

I'm contemplating on moving as well, currently on the biggest fibre package and I'm still going through all peak usage before the month ends (100GB+) whereas my off-peak usage is only around 75 GB (300 GB).

Don't go with BT. Try Zen who give you 200gig with no peak limits

[pctech]

Can personally vouch for Zen, been on their ADSL for nearly two years now, service is on a par with IDNet.

Leave your phone line with IDNet though as Zen's call packages don't come close to IDNet's.

[TheMonkey]

Thought you guys may appreciate an update on the BT Infinity 2...

After losing Internet completely for 5 days and an indian call center telling me to turn it off and on again they sent out an engineer who fixed my issue at the cabinet where I "wasn't even connected" to FTTC but was on adsl. (even though I was when it was installed)!?

Any way. Had a solid 61mb down and 14mbup for a good month and everything seemed rosie. Its now dropped 10mb down to 51mb for no reason at all. Upload remains the same.

I'm not sure what they are up to but i'll leave it for a bit.

If you do p2p, forget about it. Its throttled to a few kb/s which they did advise anyway.

The only saving grace is that if there are issues, the BT Help community forum have a few moderators who can look internally on your behalf. They will respond within 3 working days so its not an immediate fix but does get you out of the Indian saga.

If anyone has any questions who is thinking about moving to BT let me know. Unlimited broadband is my savior but it comes at a price.

[psp83]

Any way. Had a solid 61mb down and 14mbup for a good month and everything seemed rosie. Its now dropped 10mb down to 51mb for no reason at all. Upload remains the same.

How far away from the cab?

If you are around 500m you will get about 50-60Mbps down.

[TheMonkey]

How far away from the cab?

If you are around 500m you will get about 50-60Mbps down.

Its just at the end of my road. About 200 meters i'd say.

[psp83]

Have you tried powering down the modem?

You could of had a re-sync at a noisy time of the day and forced your sync lower or BT engineering works could have cause a lower sync.

There's been alot of network upgrade works in Bristol over the past weeks and I've been getting disconnected in the early hours, this dropped my sync to 52Mbps, after restarting the modem I'm now at 57Mbps sync.

[psp83]

Its just at the end of my road. About 200 meters i'd say.

Also the trouble is, your line may not be 200m. BT don't seem to take the shortest routes 

My cab is around 350m away, but the line goes the other way, the longer way, which makes my line around 500m to the cab 

[TheMonkey]

Also the trouble is, your line may not be 200m. BT don't seem to take the shortest routes 

My cab is around 350m away, but the line goes the other way, the longer way, which makes my line around 500m to the cab 

I probably did go the long way. Shame they took 10mb away. Didn't notice any instability with my connection. Oh well.

[psp83]

to be honest, your not going to miss it 

At the start of the year I would get annoyed if I lost 500k when I was on ADSL2, not on FTTC, it's like "5mb loss, who cares" lol

Anything >50Mbps is fine for me