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How is BT Infinity changing?

Over the last two years, BT Infinity has changed the face of broadband in the UK by giving our customers speeds four times faster than the UK average. And more and more people can get it every day – we're on track to reach 10 million premises in 2012, and two thirds of the UK by the end of 2014.

BT is now investing even more in the network and we'll shortly be announcing even faster broadband speeds of up to 80 mbps through BT Infinity. The speed that you get will depend on the distance between your home and your cabinet, but our tests are indicating that many of our customers will see a very big difference!

We'll be announcing prices for the new speeds soon. If you want to be the first to hear from us please register below and we'll let you know as soon as we can – or watch this space for updates.

www.evenfaster.bt.com

- I just registered my interest in 80Mb, suggest anyone else interested do the same.

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Or they're using that to gauge how many people are 'interested' and therefore might be interested in paying more for it!

I know I'm not paying more than maybe a couple of quid for it, and that's only for the upload bump.

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It's a business, so they are going to do a bit of market research first.

I shouldn't think for a second that they ever planned to stay at 40mb. But they needed to make sure that it worked before they upgraded.

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it cant be more than a few quid more expensive as 100Mb is £35 p/m

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i think openreach have officially released the 80Mb product today, so does anyone know when any ISP or more importantly BT begin selling this, i've heard dates of 16th in a few places, but no announcements from BT yet.

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http://www.btlife.bt.com/technology-...no-extra-cost/

We’re making BT Infinity even faster – at no extra cost!

We’re turning up the speed dial in the broadband battle with speed increases for BT customers for no extra cost.
If you sign up to BT Infinity 2 from tomorrow (April 12) you’ll benefit from downstream speeds that are roughly double those on offer today – up to 76Mbps rather than up to 38Mbps.
We’re also giving our BT Infinity 1 product a boost by increasing its upstream speed fivefold from up to 1.9Mbps to up to 9.5Mbps.


So it is official, it will be a free upgrade for all customers and option 1 customers will get a boost to up to 10Mb upload speed.

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So how much is Option 1?

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Option 1 with 40Mb down and 10Mb up is £19.25 per month for 3 months then £28.25 after that, those prices include line rental (at £10.25) and evening and weekend calls.

all details are here: http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=25633

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If anyone is interested, you can now upgrade your speed to either 80/20 or 40/10 from this page:

http://www.productsandservices.bt.co...?topicId=29280

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Done. Thanks Zee. Mybt.com estimates it'll be done by tomorrow - I'll post up a speedtest when it's sorted.

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what speed estimate did you get from openreach?

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Done mine as well.

Only said I could get 47mb down and 10 up though

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Im sure you'll get at least a couple Mb more

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Zee: 63.5 down and 20mb up. I'd expect a little more up but maybe a bit less down. Excited now! :)

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It's a good deal, but people should be aware of this quote:

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So, by upgrading for free, you are tying yourself to BT for another 12 or 18 months.

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And after 6 months, they put in heavy traffic management and restrictions, like VM does, heh

Always possible, I guess, especially considering how restrictive their old ADSL2+ service used to be, I still wonder why they've suddenly gone from severely restricted, to "almost" unlimited.

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Only a few months ago they turned their service into a truely unlimited package, with P2P restrictions in the evening, so i dont think they would do that anytime soon.

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not when they want customers

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My estimate was 54mb, my modem says 87mb.

The estimates are such a huge underestimate I bet it's only to cover their own asses under the GEA guarantee.

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Mine was 26Mb when i signed up and would get above 31Mb and is now estimated as 36Mb so no point to upgrade i guess.

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If you don't already get the full 40mb now you will see no difference, as your line would have already been operating at the new speeds since last year. The recent change lifts the 40mb cap to 80mb, but the actual line rate/sync rate improvements were put in place towards the end of last year.

Mind you, you will do get double the guaranteed minimum speed when you upgrade, so even if your top speed won't be any faster, your service at peak times might.

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Qas: Have you got one of the Draytek's? If not, how are you seeing the modem speed?

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No, I have the standard Openreach modem, unlocked to show line stats - http://huaweihg612hacking.files.word...tions_v1-3.pdf

(Also had an engineer round showing me his JDSU)

My upgrade is scheduled for Monday. Not sure if anyone else has got theirs yet, I believe some where scheduled for Fri. If anyone has, what SNR margin have you been set at?

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got a speedtest result qas?

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if its not too much to ask, qas, could you do a speedtest results to all of the UK servers on speedtest.net ??? cheers

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https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2012/04/76.png

I see now why BT chose to supply a seperate router in addition to the VDSL modem - the modem's processor is too slow to run in router mode above 60mbps.

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All of them?

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cheers qas. looks good :tu:

they predict me:
50.5Mb download
13.2Mb upload

:rolleyes: I should be able to max out :(

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Where two or more results are presented for the same city, it's because there are multiple servers in said city. Results (and test) are arranged in alphabetical order of the server provider.

(Note the Manchester and Warwick servers are both actually in London)

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Also as I've said before, Speedtest.net (or rather, Ookla's) testing technology is pretty bad at measuring fast upload speeds, it's quite bursty, and leaves the line idle a good 20-50% of the time.

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I've had speedtests (.net, BBMax and BT) between 53 and 70mb up since Sunday. I'm pretty happy with the performance for what I'm paying so I'm not exactly grumbling. I'll see if it stabilises a bit more by the end of next week then I might give them a bell if it's still so variable.

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Could well be a lot of Speedtest servers are getting hammered because of everyone getting upgrades at the mo.