You all made me do it lol

Babs this is for you honey

That is impressive, how on earth do you get such speeds?

I have two BT Infinity connection from home and both have a 38-40 Mbit/sec theoretical connections but usually only show about 20 Mbits/s upload and 7 Mbit/s upload each due to cannot get everyone off the systems and I suspect the laptops are not ultra fast which I suspect might detract from the score.

Most of my offices only have 2 Mbit/s connections but all use thin clients technology so only need 40 K/bits for the video as everything stored centrally.

Edited 10 December, 201114 yr by lol

Virgin 100 meg, its not cheap but up to 4 of us on at once, so it is needed, plusi only do HDthese days 15 gig mkv takes about 20 mins

adsl filter knackered i reckon

Just swapped it for a new one, and it worked!

Cheers dude!

Just swapped it for a new one, and it worked!

Cheers dude!

No problem glad to help

I have BT, and tbh it's not that bad, I did order Virgin, but to install it required pulling up my block paving drive...... :'(

Not to good here, but we are a fair way from the exchange.

wasnt gonna bother but what the heck, my crappy connection for you all to laugh at :'(

Edited 10 December, 201114 yr by the mad monk

TBH my connection is only noticbly faster when downloading, in general use its the same as my 6meg work connection, least I can't tell the difference

Where I am out in the sticks I dream of the day that I will be able to get the full 512k that I have been promised by bt.. That's 512k folks, aka 0.5Mb whoopee doo but i still pay the same as somebody who gets the full high speed 20 meg connection.. Infuriating really.

But you pay the same line rental as us, despite using 10 times as much copper cable to get your connection!!!

My brother is out in the sticks and already has Virgin but is now going to have bt fttp at 80 meg. Meanwhile here in the big town of 70000 folk we get between 1 and 2 meg on llu.

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Does anyone know of anyway you can ask BT to upgrade or investigate roll out plans in your area? Virgin's is cablemystreet and I've already sent them an email. Is there a similar one for BT?

Think you've rather missed that boat, and they had their big race to infinity all over the media earlier in the year.

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Apparently, Basingstoke has quite a lot of cheap aluminium cable instead of copper, meaning even slower performance than copper connected internet.

Chris

Arent BT still denying they ever used Alu cables???  

I just had a thought, I wonder how much of a speed improvement I would get if I persuaded them to replace my copper line with something more conductive, like audio grade silver?? (Or if I win the lottery - gold!!)

Edited 11 December, 201114 yr by GentleGiant

Arent BT still denying they ever used Alu cables???  

I just had a thought, I wonder how much of a speed improvement I would get if I persuaded them to replace my copper line with something more conductive, like audio grade silver?? (Or if I win the lottery - gold!!)

Bugger all. They'll just cap you at the exchange or further down the chain.

If you win the lottery get them to put in a 100M fibre.

It was a bit of a joke question,but I will bite. I dont use BT for internet, so I dont get capped; but BT own all of the cable, so regardless of who you use, BT own and maintain the cable from your house to the exchange.

It was a bit of a joke question,but I will bite. I dont use BT for internet, so I dont get capped; but BT own all of the cable, so regardless of who you use, BT own and maintain the cable from your house to the exchange.

Even for Kingston Communications?

OK, 0.000000000001% of the copper cable is owned by kingston, but by rounding and error propagation, that = 0%.

Does anyone know of anyway you can ask BT to upgrade or investigate roll out plans in your area? Virgin's is cablemystreet and I've already sent them an email. Is there a similar one for BT?

There are websites that show the proposed Infinity areas, dates etc. Can't remember where though, Google it yourself.

www.ispreview.com posts the BT announcements and links to the various pages

Thread resurrection!...and a happy ending.

I moved house to get closer to work. Virgin Media available. Hello 50mb line......and they all lived happily ever faster :p

....and with the doubleing up happening later in the year, you should be touching 100Mbit.

200Mbit being trialled at the moment, with 1.5Gbit not far behind in the trials. Gotta love Virgin.

Think you've rather missed that boat, and they had their big race to infinity all over the media earlier in the year.

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Yeah, our exchange was one of the winners. Guaranteed minimum 30 meg will be a slight improvement on the current sub megabyte service

I can get FTTC from the end of March, but with the data allowances not being substantially improved over ADSLMax, is it really worth the extra cost? Not forgetting the £99 set up fee.