I have read that for an additional cost BT will run a length of fibre to your house, I guess from the cabinet on the street and charge an installation free (I assume one off).

Now I quite fancy that.... mmmm, coupled with Sky Fibre, not sure I trust BT Infinity!

Fibre broadband comes in two forms - Fibre to Cabinet and Fibre to Premises. You will pay more for FTP but it is not available on ever exchange that has FTC

Would Sky not be able to "lease" the fibre from BT / Openreach (whoever owns it) the same as they do now with the copper?

Now why on earth would BT willingly let their rivals in on the act? I sky and others can only lease what they currently do because the regulator forced them to.

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Currently getting 13Mbit on Sky BB Unlimited, have pretty much got Sky Fibre ordered and looking at 40Mbps to start with, but I know I'm good for around 70-80Mb when they turn the dial up.

Sweeeeeeeeeet

What is the deal with Sky Fibre? I guess it still needs BT to have done FTTC in the area first, and then for Sky to decide they want to play in that exchange?

I already have Sky LLU, and with the Olympics coming, I believe that BT are meant to be doing FTTC later on in the year around here (they have already done Fraggle Rock).

Plus what is the cost of Sky Fibre?

I still have one of those AOL CDs, kept for its brilliant instructions - see step 1...

I often wondered if anyone actually tried it.

Which bit? "insert the enclosed CD in your HARD DRIVE"???? :D

I'd be interested if Be offered the service, but they don't :(

I'm half tempted by it to be honest.

I'd be interested if Be offered the service, but they don't :(

I'm half tempted by it to be honest.

TBH Alot of infinity customers have moved from BE (me included) - they aint what they used to be.

For those that havent seen: OpenReach (the "owners" of the FTTC infrastructure have released their 80mb/20mb product)

Now its up to the ISP to upgrade/release their versions - my Infinity option 2 is getting upgraded tomorrow for no extra cost (although i did have to renew my contract)

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Crikey Dave, you get almost as good as i do at work now! However my upload is slightly faster..

I'm having major problems with minus.net so will likely be leaving, even if it costs me a cancellation fee shortly.

Crikey Dave, you get almost as good as i do at work now! However my upload is slightly faster..

Upload is for seeders ........

Crikey Dave, you get almost as good as i do at work now! However my upload is slightly faster..

Are you looking for any more staff?!

What is the deal with Sky Fibre? I guess it still needs BT to have done FTTC in the area first, and then for Sky to decide they want to play in that exchange?

I already have Sky LLU, and with the Olympics coming, I believe that BT are meant to be doing FTTC later on in the year around here (they have already done Fraggle Rock).

Plus what is the cost of Sky Fibre?

Sky fibre is £20 a month with no usage caps.

Just been reading about Sky Fibre, for some bizarre reason it's 40mb down but only 2mb up!?

Just been reading about Sky Fibre, for some bizarre reason it's 40mb down but only 2mb up!?

Maybe that is it to try and prevent too much seeding/torrent upload traffic....

Not at all shabby.. hopefully ping will improve when the profile settles down.

Look at you in the top 1%

Sky are only offering 40/2 for the time being, however I have heard that they are internally trialling 40/10 and 80/20 profiles.

Anyway, I'd take 40 from Sky over 80 from BT any day of the week... and Sky will have to up their speeds soon anyway so I'll still get the benefit of 80

Not at all shabby.. hopefully ping will improve when the profile settles down.

What are BT like for throttling Colin?

At the moment, I've got a <1Mbitt throughput (64kbit the other eve) during "peak times" on a line that's syncing at 6-8Mbit.

I'm tempted to just pay the termination fee of about £60 and look at moving to BT infinity.

I'm mainly looking at the general use, plus iPlayer, 4OD, netflix type things.

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What are BT like for throttling Colin?

At the moment, I've got a <1Mbitt throughput (64kbit the other eve) during "peak times" on a line that's syncing at 6-8Mbit.

I'm tempted to just pay the termination fee of about £60 and look at moving to BT infinity.

I'm mainly looking at the general use, plus iPlayer, 4OD, netflix type things.

The only thing they throttle is P2P - bittorrent etc which gets throttled back to well under 50k/s for 20 hours a day.. they apparently do have QOS enabled for Iplayer/VoD etc though - ive never had a problem.

So are BE struggling these days?.. i know they had major issues earlier in the year.

I should be upgraded to 60mb soon

The only thing they throttle is P2P - bittorrent etc which gets throttled back to well under 50k/s for 20 hours a day.. they apparently do have QOS enabled for Iplayer/VoD etc though - ive never had a problem.

So are BE struggling these days?.. i know they had major issues earlier in the year.

I had to leave BE when I moved west, becasue they didn't operate LLU in my exchange.

From what you'd said earlier they were getting worse.

I'm currently with plus.net, and things there are dreadful for me. Often I can't even stream internet radio, it's that bad during peak times.

One speedtest I ran, was showing 64kb down, 400kb up on a line that is at around 6Mbits sync.

I seem to keep getting the BT fault must be raised brick wall, even though I can't believe it is the line with the sync, lack or errors and the above reported throughput.

I'm giving them one last change to sort it out, as they were very good at the last property, where I could only get ADSL Max offerings.

Be aren't doing FTTC at all in 2012.

Be aren't doing FTTC at all in 2012.

Oh you're joking?

Oh you're joking?

I got a fairly evasive answer from them when I asked, so I think he might now be.

There is a blog post on their website that states they are having major delays and are not looking to roll out FTTC this year..

http://blog.bethere.co.uk/2012/04/update-on-fibre.html