BT Infinity 80Mb

[AdamD]

Originally Posted by Stuart

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

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.

[Zee]

Originally Posted by AdamD

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.

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.

[thenry]

not when they want customers

[qasdfdsaq]

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.

[Zee]

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.

[qasdfdsaq]

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.

[ShadowTD]

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

[qasdfdsaq]

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?

[qasdfdsaq]

[thenry]

got a speedtest result qas?

[craigj2k12]

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

[qasdfdsaq]

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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Originally Posted by craigj2k12

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

All of them?

[thenry]

cheers qas. looks good

they predict me:
50.5Mb download
13.2Mb upload

I should be able to max out

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by craigj2k12

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

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)

[qasdfdsaq]

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.