BT Infinity installed - Page 4

loopfish · 28-01-2012, 17:42

Nicosia · 28-01-2012, 17:53

so what connections do you get from infinity? I thought they where going to offer 100mbit?

deathtrap3000 · 28-01-2012, 17:59

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Originally Posted by Nicosia

so what connections do you get from infinity? I thought they where going to offer 100mbit?

Their 100mbps product is FTTP which is only available in a few areas. The 40mbps product they offer is on FTTC which will be doubled to 80mbps in the next few months.

Nicosia · 29-01-2012, 12:57

80 is good.. but the fibre lines seemed to have made a huge difference and you can be much further away from the exchange to receive these speeds cant you

colin25 · 29-01-2012, 18:15

I think Bt infinity comes to me in june..I might choose that..rather than Virgin

Hoping it is better for gaming

jamiefrost · 29-01-2012, 20:49

My virgin connection has been utterly pathetic since the new year. Engineer visit altered power levels to no effect. At peak times jitter goes brought the roof and packet loos is around 10 - 20% but can get higher.

Will be switching to BT infinity I think just to make Xbox live work.

J

colin25 · 30-01-2012, 06:00

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Originally Posted by jamiefrost

My virgin connection has been utterly pathetic since the new year. Engineer visit altered power levels to no effect. At peak times jitter goes brought the roof and packet loos is around 10 - 20% but can get higher.

Will be switching to BT infinity I think just to make Xbox live work.

J

That was my reason for leaving virgin...my xbox live game play was rubbish, and I had 50. Even though I only get about 10 from sky...my games are better. I begrudged paying virgin if they couldn't give me decent game play, as i don't download much.

loopfish · 30-01-2012, 09:36

BT Infinity is a world apart from VM's shambles...seriously, at peak times on 10Mb VM, I couldn't even view Youtube videos properly, without suffering breaks and rebuffering...that's been going on for about the last year with Virgin in my area, forcing me to switch to BT at the beginning of this year, and oh my god - what a change! I can now game in the evenings without having to keep running pingtests to see if it's even worth trying to play online!
BT is constant, smooth, and transparent...perfect for gaming...and having 10X the upstream is nice too :-) Had been playing Battlefield 3 one evening - a good session - then noticed afterwards that uTorrent had been running all the time, but as the connection was so good, I didn't even notice it affecting the gameplay at all!
As for throttled P2P, just schedule your app to run overnight! Not difficult.

Zee · 30-01-2012, 15:35

As posted in this thread: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/63...e-checker.html

Openreach are now estimating updated speeds for customers, has yours gone up or down?

MadGamer · 02-02-2012, 19:07

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Originally Posted by Zee

As posted in this thread: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/63...e-checker.html

Openreach are now estimating updated speeds for customers, has yours gone up or down?

I get about 35-37mb down and 6.5mb up on a very good day

Nicosia · 02-02-2012, 19:15

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Originally Posted by MadGamer

I get about 35-37mb down and 6.5mb up on a very good day

is that hot gaby from DH on your avatar?

But back on topic how far from the exchange are you if you dont mind me asking? I imagine you can be a lot further then with the copper lines but it would be nice to see what distances people are and still being able to achieve those speeds

and on another separate note lion 10.7.3 was released today, apologies for going off topic

Tezcatlipoca · 02-02-2012, 20:04

I don't think the distance from the exchange matters with fibre, at least certainly not anywhere near as much as it does with ADSL. The crucial thing is instead the distance from the cabinet.

Nicosia · 02-02-2012, 20:21

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Originally Posted by Matt D

I don't think the distance from the exchange matters with fibre, at least certainly not anywhere near as much as it does with ADSL. The crucial thing is instead the distance from the cabinet.

so if you are far away from one even with cable or adsl then you get poor speeds?

I am glad that I have one not even 20 feet from my house.

On this side of cambs I am 2.2km from the exchange and its nice to know that from only being able to receive 11mbits max that I would get a lot more if I ever decided to get a bt infinity connection along side my VM one

Tezcatlipoca · 02-02-2012, 21:43

This is simplistic, and someone with more tech knowledge may come along and correct / expand on this, but... AFAIK...

ADSL: DSLAM at the BT Exchange >>copper phoneline>> your home.

BT Infinity FTTC: BT Exchange >>fibre>> DSLAM at the street cabinet >>copper phoneline>> your home.

With ADSL, the whole connection from the exchange to your home is via the copper phoneline. The longer the line (& the poorer the quality of the line), the slower the speed. The cabinet distance doesn't matter, it's the whole length of the line from the exchange which is the issue: the copper phoneline length.

With FTTC, the connection from the exchange to the street cabinet is via fibre, with only the final bit from the cabinet to your home using the copper phoneline. The length and quality of that copper phoneline is still a factor, but... it's generally a hell of a lot shorter than the distance via the copper phoneline all the way from the exchange to your home if you had ADSL.

Sephiroth · 02-02-2012, 21:52

Yawn.

---------- Post added at 21:52 ---------- Previous post was at 21:49 ----------

Quote:

Originally Posted by Matt D

This is simplistic, and someone with more tech knowledge may come along and correct / expand on this, but... AFAIK...

ADSL: DSLAM at the BT Exchange >>copper phoneline>> your home.
[SEPH]: Correct

BT Infinity FTTC: BT Exchange >>fibre>> DSLAM at the street cabinet >>copper phoneline>> your home.
[SEPH]: Correct

With ADSL, the whole connection from the exchange to your home is via the copper phoneline. The longer the line (& the poorer the quality of the line), the slower the speed. The cabinet distance doesn't matter, it's the whole length of the line from the exchange which is the issue: the copper phoneline length.
[SEPH]: Correct

With FTTC, the connection from the exchange to the street cabinet is via fibre, with only the final bit from the cabinet to your home using the copper phoneline. The length and quality of that copper phoneline is still a factor, but... it's generally a hell of a lot shorter than the distance via the copper phoneline all the way from the exchange to your home if you had ADSL.
[SEPH]: Correct