Today I had BT infinity installed in the farm cottage, handily the distance between the FTTC cabinet and my house is very short (I can see the cabinet from the window upstairs). Result is really impressive, almost max speed for BT Infinity 2.

 

 

Compared the 6 meg LLU sky connection this is pretty quick.

 

Now need BT to get their act together and get my phone line transferred from the SKY infrastructure to the BT kit. This is a manual intervention, and an engineer needs to physically make the connection at the exchange. Until that happens, I have no working phone line and those trying to call either get a continuous tone or the "The number has not been recognised, please try again".

as mentioned elswhere, I'm in flippin Southampton and lucky to get 6Mbps, yet you country bumpkins get that :( Here's what I think of BT :moon: I need to get Virgin as BT have no plans for fibre to the captain cabinet trapped in a cabinet here

 

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2886978429

 

4.5 X slower ping and not even 7Mbps combined, and this in a city!

I am with Virgin media and have been since broadband was a dizzy 256mb lol

 

 Here my speed test today, not bad. TEST

That does look good. Virgin have finally completed the speed upgrades here (that I expected a year ago) but the upload is still a way off yours :(

 

 

Update: Still, it beats James I's stats

Edited 7 August, 201312 yr by dbg400

No Virgin Media here at all, so its all standard ADSL or FTTC. On the plus side, the Blandford exchange was part of the government scheme to improve broadband in rural areas, had it not been then all the Infinity kit would not have been cost effective. Blandford is a small town, and the cabinet serving my connection is in the middle of nowhere serving just a few properties. Every cabinet in town is now upgraded I believe so all residents can get infinity.

Bt are rolling out super fast broadband here too

as mentioned elswhere, I'm in flippin Southampton and lucky to get 6Mbps, yet you country bumpkins get that :( Here's what I think of BT :moon: I need to get Virgin as BT have no plans for fibre to the captain cabinet trapped in a cabinet here

 

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2886978429

 

4.5 X slower ping and not even 7Mbps combined, and this in a city!

Wow. I'm with Virgin in Southampton I get 30mb on average, upping to the 100mb soon too!

Wow. I'm with Virgin in Southampton I get 30mb on average, upping to the 100mb soon too!

and yet you've not been to the West Meon Hut meet?

Here's MY speediest.

 

I have a 30Mb connection speed, but can go up to 120Mb if I was prepared to pay the extra cost.

 

VM have always had a bad upload speed compared to download speed. :(

I have BT infinity and love the speed i get.

Considering the legislation and Government intent to give us all super-fast fibre broadband was put in place in the early 1980's and the fact that only 55% of UK households can receive any Virgin Media service tells us how well the plan is going. Over 30 years and yet not even half of the country has access to download speeds over 10mb/s.

This afternoon my phone line sprang into life, so we're all sorted. I did however spend 45mins on the phone to BT from work, who established that an exchange fault is what delayed the activation. Call me a sceptic though, because within 1 hour of the call to BT the line was up and running.

 

For once, I spoke to 2 indian call centre staff members who I could actually understand, and who knew what I was talking about which makes a change.

I get less than 2mb with BT, a ruddy carrier pigeon is quicker! But what really gets my goat is the fact that I pay the same price as you folks with lightening speed. Dead fair that is! :(

My upload since switching to BT is 0.1mbps on a good day!

That makes it almost impossible to send an email with pictures attached. Quite important for a photographer...

BT deny any fault of theirs, but it was fine before I switched.

Download is generally about 5mbps! A long way off yours on both counts.

That was too good to be true, the phone works but the phone does not ring when people call. I can however answer the call if I know someone is calling at that time. Looks like the ringer voltage is not being applied to the line, so now on hold to BT faults hoping to arrange for an engineer to fix it. I can of course phone out with no problem at all.

 

The internet is still flying, getting 76meg on wired connection, so very happy with that.

They disconnect the ring wire when installing the vdsl to get max speed.

Does your phone actually rely on the ring wire as mine doesn't. Try a modern dect phone or similar and see if that rings.

I should do that speed test from my office. Symmetric gigabit line (datacenter) Home....yeah, not close to that.

99.9% of the population in the country have a mains electricity supply.

 

I have a 1 gigabit Devolo unit installed in my house. Works fine !

 

So, I presume that the majority of rural customers are having to wait for BT to "Roll-out" their fibre service because of some heavyweight lobbying by BT in the corridors of power some time ago which had the effect of crushing the competition.

 

 

Nick

Whatever the reasons, I still think it's grossly unfair that those with low speeds should have to pay the same as those lucky enough to have fast (normal?) speeds.

Whatever the reasons, I still think it's grossly unfair that those with low speeds should have to pay the same as those lucky enough to have fast (normal?) speeds.

Unfortunately life's like that. I live 30 miles from the nearest motorway but pay the same road  and fuel tax as everybody else.

Unfortunately life's like that. I live 30 miles from the nearest motorway but pay the same road  and fuel tax as everybody else.

I don't quite see the relevance, the taxes you pay are for any roads that you may use, not just motorways.

Incidentally, motorways aren't necessarily the quickest roads to drive on either, the M25 during rush hours being a case in point!

I get about 6.5 meg, which I am happy with most of the time, I am tempted by fibre, especially as some of the smaller ISPs have a chance to install for free until the end of September.

 

Still, I am jealous of the granny in Sweden who's techie grandson installed a 1Gb line to her house a few years ago. I seem to remember reading that she could download a full HD film in 7 seconds.

 

BT Infinity is a good product, shame about their customer service

Unfortunately life's like that. I live 30 miles from the nearest motorway but pay the same road  and fuel tax as everybody else.

 

no such thing as road tax & fuel is fuel so paying the same tax on it as anyone else is a non-issue

Good effort.. bet it makes a big difference. (even though you dont think it would!) 

 

My latest bugbear is that its got to the stage where 3g connections are generally faster than using wifi.. have been reading up on AC standard access points.