anyone else with BT inifnity?

I know. Surprised me too! We've only been enabled less than 4 weeks and I was the 17th in the cabinet.

Aha!!!

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:D Almost a shame I don't game with a ping like that ;)
 
Hi

I upgraded from BT opt 1 to BT infinity just a few weeks ago and can report an excellent result. went from around 6mbps to now 37+mbps and all for just an extra £1:50 a month, so no complaints here and I have been very pleased with BT over many years, as another poster suggested above - I do not have much choice who I do BB business with here in Cornwall. BT engineer installed open reach box, no problem, in and out within 20 minutes. would highly recommend, regards.
 
had a good read of this thread seem like mixed results.

I was with o2 was ment to be getting 7-10mb but more or less got 2-4mb, and its was capped at a 1mb upload i never was told this.

So now my road is able to get the BT Infinity with a speed test of 57mb and 16mb upload so im told over the phone.

Today is the day the bloke is coming to install will make an update when the bloke has been and gone.. to be honest anything over 20 i would be happy with
 
chunky monkey said:
I do not have much choice who I do BB business with here in Cornwall.
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You can choose a different supplier. Basically everyone at the moment is using BT backhaul and then teeing off that at an appropriate BT access point into their network. Any bandwidth management and/or traffic shaping is done in the ISPs networks, not Openreach's.

You can (and I have) gone with a different ISP provider. I'll admit BT do offer a good package for the average consumer tho.
 
arad85 said:
I know I'm unusual in my usage habits (I moved more than 10G yesterday on a 4Mbit link)
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Given the amount of data you move and your apparent dependence on the connection, have you considered a private circuit with a meaningful SLA?
 
onomatopoeia said:
Given the amount of data you move and your apparent dependence on the connection, have you considered a private circuit with a meaningful SLA?
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No I haven't.

How much would that cost and who would you suggest (it won't be soon though - I'm 7 hours into my contract period with Clara!).
 
im not a massive fan of watching TV via the net, so cant see that im going to do that, i might use catch up tv services a bit more but still..

am hoping to get a good ping, at the moment this is my speed
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that ping is just terrible when gaming!
 
matty said:
im not a massive fan of watching TV via the net, so cant see that im going to do that
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It depends.... If it's sold as a broadcast service, so you watch it on your TV as anything else would be, then what does the delivery method matter as long as the interface is what you're used to with a remote.

What I've been amazed by is how responsive YouTube is now. Click on a point in time and you don't see the spinning disk. It just plays...
 
PS. That's a 1970's connection you have there... (OK, that's an exaggeration, perhaps a top end 2003 one ;))
 
the house was only built 8 years ago so top end 2003.. we are 9 miles from the exchange...

engineer been and gone, now in the settling period, he reckons sky will tweak it to get it up to 40mb by the end of the day, but now its running at

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matty said:
the house was only built 8 years ago so top end 2003.. we are 9 miles from the exchange...

engineer been and gone, now in the settling period, he reckons sky will tweak it to get it up to 40mb by the end of the day, but now its running at

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Having done lots of speedtests during the last few days, I've noticed that whilst I nearly always get 16Mbit up, during the day, downloads fall from 66Mbits to 20-30Mbits. I (nearly) always get low pings and the fact you can select different servers is interesting. Whilst "network congestion" gets blamed on a lot of low speedtests, the network at the "other end" also needs to be taken into account. I've been trying different servers in different locations.

Take these as an example:

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and

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They were done less than a minute apart on different servers in London.

You might assume that it looks like there is network congestion as I'm "only" getting 26Mbit down (max d/l I've achieved is 69.15), but the low ping and high upload (max u/l I've achieved has been 16.49 so this is close to that max) suggests otherwise. To me it suggests that the server is being used and can't give me the full 66Mbit bandwidth down. If there's half a dozen people using the link it has, it has to share it. That doesn't indicate network congestion, just that as broadband speeds jump, it's less likely you'll be able to get reliable speedtests when other people are using the computer at the other end.

Having said that, the second one is more interesting: I'm getting a slightly throttled upload (at 15Mbits/s) and higher ping times to the second suggests some form of network congestion between me and that server. Whether that's in my ISPs network or the other persons is unknown. The fact I get 80% more download from the more congested route suggests to me that my hypothesis about the other servers outgoing bandwidth being utilised heavily is plausible.

I don't think Sky will do any tweaking TBH. I think you'll just find that the server you're speedtesting against will just become less congested this evening.

Also, about the 10 day training (did the engineer tell you that? Mine did). I'm not sure that's the case as my modem (yes, I hacked it and have access to the line stats... <ahem>) says the connection has been up 3 days (which is right), and the line stats say:

Code: 
# xdslcmd info --state
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 0
Max:    Upstream rate = 26748 Kbps, Downstream rate = 72864 Kbps
Path:   0, Upstream rate = 20000 Kbps, Downstream rate = 73539 Kbps

(Showtime indicates training has ceased evidently - see: http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=10289.0)

BTW. Fastest I've been able to download anything from a server is around 30Mbit/sec. Finding something I want access to and that is sitting on a network with a high bandwidth availability is surprisingly difficult - and often not intuitive (I've had faster downloads from France than the UK for instance). The jump from 4Mbits to 60Mbits is huge. The only way it'll realistically be used here is more internet streaming which now becomes possible :) But it is nice to have it on tap :D
 
PS. talking about ping... I often get:

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but then it's the ping to the gaming server that really matters, not to a site running speedtests...
 
My router says 39mbit but tests are between2 5 and 30.
 
I'm currently away on business and am getting:

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It is painful, but I would have killed for those speeds 10 years ago (maybe not the pings ;)) when a 56k modem was all that was available (I think I went 512k at my old exchange early 2003)...


I miss the trrrrrrr-prrrrrrrr-ssssssss-eeeeeeeee-wcchhhh of a modem....
 
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