Our village has just been upgraded to BT Infinity fibre to cabinet. Engineer just been to chev moi

Download speed 1 hour ago 0.4 mb

Download speed now 24mb

Hehe. Pretty huge improvement!

Still tempted by a speed upgrade on Virgin. Currently on 10mb.

At least you're one of the lucky ones to get it. I know quite a few people that have just missed out on BT infinity.

Phil

Hehe. Pretty huge improvement!

Still tempted by a speed upgrade on Virgin. Currently on 10mb.

At least you're one of the lucky ones to get it. I know quite a few people that have just missed out on BT infinity.

Phil

Virgin are starting to double speeds around June/July this year. Am kinda looking forward to mine really (currently on 50Mbit).

My first modem was a PACE 2400 and would download 1Mbyte in 1 hour, things have improved somewhat over the years.

So when are you getting super fast broadband? 24 meg is entry level?

Virgin are starting to double speeds around June/July this year. Am kinda looking forward to mine really (currently on 50Mbit).

My first modem was a PACE 2400 and would download 1Mbyte in 1 hour, things have improved somewhat over the years.

Yes I had seen that. 20MB should be enough I reckon but wasn't sure if I should upgrade now then get whatever speed I upgrade to doubled! lol

I remember dial-up... what a drainer. Then remember how blazingly fast my 512kb broadband connection was! lol

mine is currently at 2 Mb while every street around me has either BT infinity or Infinity and virgin.

24 !!!

Isn't it supposed to be around 40 meg, I was speaking to my neighbour who works for open reach, and he says our estate is only good for a very flaky 15 meg.

They seem to be struggling to get advertised speeds !!

Virgin are starting to double speeds around June/July this year. Am kinda looking forward to mine really (currently on 50Mbit).

My first modem was a PACE 2400 and would download 1Mbyte in 1 hour, things have improved somewhat over the years.

When I first went on 'the net' I used a 2400Baud modem, took AGES to load.

And then US Robotics sola a 11400 Kbs mode, and weeks later my friend upgraded to a 28800Kbs modem.

Then BT launched 'BT Home Highway' and then broadband was launched.

24 !!!

Isn't it supposed to be around 40 meg, I was speaking to my neighbour who works for open reach, and he says our estate is only good for a very flaky 15 meg.

They seem to be struggling to get advertised speeds !!

A friend close by just changed to BT Infinity, 40MB on the spot, it is really nice, he downloaded 1gig movie for under 4min

A friend close by just changed to BT Infinity, 40MB on the spot, it is really nice, he downloaded 1gig movie for under 4min

4 mins .....How long lol

24 !!!

Isn't it supposed to be around 40 meg, I was speaking to my neighbour who works for open reach, and he says our estate is only good for a very flaky 15 meg.

They seem to be struggling to get advertised speeds !!

BT still use the words "up to" in their adverts. Albeit in very small writing.

BT's biggest problem is they're still using a network of ancient, ageing copper, the performance of which will continue to degrade over time. FTTC is a great idea, but still uses copper for the final run. FTTH would be the best solution, but that'll cost and BT won't be wanting their profits harmed by making that sort of improvement to the network.

4 mins .....How long lol

Easy Tiger

BT still use the words "up to" in their adverts. Albeit in very small writing.

BT's biggest problem is they're still using a network of ancient, ageing copper, the performance of which will continue to degrade over time. FTTC is a great idea, but still uses copper for the final run. FTTH would be the best solution, but that'll cost and BT won't be wanting their profits harmed by making that sort of improvement to the network.

They all use 'up to' in the wording, but it seems BT are well under par, more so than most others IME, and I've seen a few lol

I have been on 10 meg ADSL2 for over 4 years now. It is not going to change in the near future. Or middle future either I don't think.

I am just as keen to get a better upload ( on 1.2meg ) than anything else.

I used to game on 28.8k dial up , so know just how good we have it now, regardless of how much we complain or chase headline download speeds.

Quite a few villages around me have Infinity / Virgin. Only thing that puzzles me with the Infinity packages - you can get them with a usage limit. WTF.

Quite a few villages around me have Infinity / Virgin. Only thing that puzzles me with the Infinity packages - you can get them with a usage limit. WTF.

lol, you can only drive your SaltSpec vRS flat out for 20 minutes a month, then it has to sit in the garage until next month!

Virgin have "managed bandwidth periods" whereby if you exceed a certain limit, you'll be slowed by 75% for the remainder of that period. (IIRC two periods in a day 900-1600 and 1700-2100), and the last I looked, the 100Mb package had no limits.

256kb dial up, download XP service pack 2, "been trying to call you, who where you on the phone to for 12 hrs??",

256kb dial up, download XP service pack 2, "been trying to call you, who where you on the phone to for 12 hrs??",

You're not are you? Whereabouts in England's garden are you?

Erm.., that was about 10 years ago, think it was freeserve or freenet, 1p a minute, everywhere you looked they had their CDs, been Telewest/Virgin since, eventually 30M, will double in the summer, Richard Branson has written to me personally to tell me!!

Erm.., that was about 10 years ago, think it was freeserve or freenet, 1p a minute, everywhere you looked they had their CDs, been Telewest/Virgin since, eventually 30M, will double in the summer, Richard Branson has written to me personally to tell me!!

Oh good Oh those good old CDs, I remember those, along with AOL's ones being everwhere. You could even find them orphaned on the shelves in Sainsburys

Yeah Telewest/Blueyonder/NTL/Virgin is definately the way to go. When the bloke selling Sky at Hempstead Valley approaches with the offer of "Superfast 24Mb broadband" he's never happy with the responce "why so slow?"

So when are you getting super fast broadband? 24 meg is entry level?

I understand that our infinity is going up to 80 meg later in the year and after that we will get fibre to residence at 300meg!!!

So far I am happy with my 20mb - massive usability improvement over 0.4!! - HD bbc iPlayer is brilliant

1.2Mbit here, and that's after speaking very nicely to a bloke called Chris on 3rd line support at Sky.

Exchange is FTTC enabled, but is approximately 4 million miles away, and they've no plans to upgrade my street cabinet :(

Barstewards

I do think it's going to reach a point where it's speed just for the sake of speed.

I understand that our infinity is going up to 80 meg later in the year and after that we will get fibre to residence at 300meg!!!

So far I am happy with my 20mb - massive usability improvement over 0.4!! - HD bbc iPlayer is brilliant

If 300 mb ever materialises I might ditch Virgin!!

Will stick with the 100 meg(soon to be 120) for now.

we're still between 4 and 6 MB here... but at a cost of £4.89 / month with Orange (+ BT Line rental) for 2nd local number, unlimited internet use, unlimited LandLine, Orange and International calls, well, i can't really complain now can i....?!

I did receive a call from the Lovely people at Orange, asking if i wanted a "new" price - no thanks i thought...!

BT infinity or Virgin are not available here... booo!

Al.

I did a 511 MB file @ 44 seconds at an average of 11.4 MB/s

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