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Re: BT Inifinity
« Reply #30 on: 14 October 2010, 10:04:58 »

 ;D ;D ;D Ahh, memories.. my first was a 1200/75 split rate modem - I missed acoustic couplers, thankfully  ;D - but it was used with a BBC Master 'round a friends house..

I wasn't posh enough to have a BBC - I had a Spectrum +3  :)
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« Reply #31 on: 02 February 2011, 13:45:08 »

Well, the time is coming for my exchange to be enabled, so thought I'd resurrect this thread for any more up to date comments to sway my decision.

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« Reply #32 on: 02 February 2011, 14:13:55 »

i have just done a postcode av. speed check on my postcode and noticed that the surrounding area get between 3 and 10 meg yet in Military Town area the av is 0.5 meg :'(

(although mine in tweaked to 1.6  ::))

Discrimination?  :-/
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« Reply #33 on: 02 February 2011, 14:55:31 »

I've been pleased with it since installation.

Consistent 36 -38 D/L and 6 – 8 U/L since day 1 (in a rural location)

I use the service every day at various times so I have a reasonably good snapshot of how it performs, there doesn’t seem to be any traffic shaping or questions over D/L limits so far.

I had occasion to contact BT recently when the speed dropped off to almost nil (a result of cat sabotage) a short easily understood conversation with a very pleasant young Indian woman and things were returned to normal very quickly.

In essence, I’m very pleased with the service which is not only faster than the virgin connection I had before but also cheaper. The staff I’ve spoken to have been easily understood, knowledgeable and pleasant.

So for BT Infinity it’s a  [smiley=thumbup.gif] [smiley=thumbup.gif] [smiley=thumbup.gif]
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« Reply #34 on: 02 February 2011, 18:16:36 »

Got to wait till the end of the year in these parts...  ...still, lucky we're getting it, considering we are relatively rural  :-X
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« Reply #35 on: 02 February 2011, 18:17:49 »

Also, rumour on the street around these parts, we may be offered FTTP as well on this part of town  :-X
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« Reply #36 on: 02 February 2011, 19:11:09 »

Here in Tunbridge Wells, we are expecting Infinity at any time soon. I work for BT and messing about with Broadband (although only on a customers premises) is my thing. We'll be getting Infinity for a token payment so I hope it's good!
People always get confused with their BB speed. Your connection speed is related to the length of your BT line and the quality of that line. As a rule of thumb, BB works up to about six or seven miles, over that you'll be lucky! This is where Infinity comes in as, with fibre to the cabinet it should, more or less, halve your copper pair of wires which should bring great improvements to those out in the wilds. Saying this of course, how long, if ever, BT will get around to this kind of technology on the more remote exchanges remains to be seen.
Connection speed is not your Speedtest speed. Your speedtest, or equivalent throughput will never equal your connection speed as it's the nature of the beast! Your connection speed is the important part of the equation as if your connection speed is poor, your throughput will always be bad. If you are on an 8Mb circuit and have an 8Mb connection speed, you'll be getting roughly 7Mb as the throughput at best. If you do a speedtest after about 4pm when all the kids come out of school, you won't get 7Mb! And if you do another in the evening it'll be even less.
Most ISP's aren't overly interested in your speedtest speed (they should, but they're not!) only in your connection speed. One of the biggest gripes I get from customers is this slowing down of the BB during the evening. You can explain this by imagining 100 customers using a 100Mb link to the Internet. During the day when only 20 odd are using the BB you'll get 5Mb each but in the evening when everyones at home you'll get 1Mb. This is the contention ratio and business BB is supposed to be better than ordinary home BB. Different ISP's have different contention ratios, BT's isn't very good!
Anyway, all good fun!!

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« Reply #37 on: 02 February 2011, 19:23:28 »

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Here in Tunbridge Wells, we are expecting Infinity at any time soon. I work for BT and messing about with Broadband (although only on a customers premises) is my thing. We'll be getting Infinity for a token payment so I hope it's good!
People always get confused with their BB speed. Your connection speed is related to the length of your BT line and the quality of that line. As a rule of thumb, BB works up to about six or seven miles, over that you'll be lucky! This is where Infinity comes in as, with fibre to the cabinet it should, more or less, halve your copper pair of wires which should bring great improvements to those out in the wilds. Saying this of course, how long, if ever, BT will get around to this kind of technology on the more remote exchanges remains to be seen.
Connection speed is not your Speedtest speed. Your speedtest, or equivalent throughput will never equal your connection speed as it's the nature of the beast! Your connection speed is the important part of the equation as if your connection speed is poor, your throughput will always be bad. If you are on an 8Mb circuit and have an 8Mb connection speed, you'll be getting roughly 7Mb as the throughput at best. If you do a speedtest after about 4pm when all the kids come out of school, you won't get 7Mb! And if you do another in the evening it'll be even less.
Most ISP's aren't overly interested in your speedtest speed (they should, but they're not!) only in your connection speed. One of the biggest gripes I get from customers is this slowing down of the BB during the evening. You can explain this by imagining 100 customers using a 100Mb link to the Internet. During the day when only 20 odd are using the BB you'll get 5Mb each but in the evening when everyones at home you'll get 1Mb. This is the contention ratio and business BB is supposed to be better than ordinary home BB. Different ISP's have different contention ratios, BT's isn't very good!
Anyway, all good fun!!

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Depends on the ISP. Some ISPs are concerned if your throughput doesn't match your sync speed (taking into account the ATM and IP overheads). These tend to be the premium, business orientated ISPs

Generally, the consumer ISPs use some degree of traffic shaping, so the 'anti social' broadband customers don't knackered the 'normal' users. Traffic shaping will obviously affect speeds - though most ISPs will allow full speed to the well known speed testers  :-X

For day to day use, for the vast majority of users, you won't notice the difference between 4Mb and 40Mb connections, useless multiple users are streaming.  P2P/NNTP will flaten any connection.
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Re: BT Inifinity
« Reply #38 on: 02 February 2011, 19:37:50 »

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for the vast majority of users, you won't notice the difference between 4Mb and 40Mb connections

Agreed. I installed BB for a customer miles away from the exchange the other day. She got BT to install it as her previous BB was pants. When I got it up and running it synched up at 512Kb!!! Tried it out and do you know what, it worked a treat and she was over the moon with it :) I scarpered quick :y

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