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[Vamps]

And wow, is it quick.....

We were getting less that 2 something or other and not getting 27 something or other, what a difference, I can watch a you tube video without having to pause it waiting for it to download.......

We could not get it before but they have just uprated the exchange.........

[Jimbob]

tis great!  infinity 2 I hope....at upto 80megish

[Vamps]

tis great!  infinity 2 I hope....at upto 80megish

Not sure, should be the latest and plenty fast enough for me, no limits to use either, and apparently we could now have BT vision if we want............

[blackviper90210]

I have to chuckle with BT, rolling out Infinity 2

They've been telling us for 2 years that we will have Infinity in our area....have we?   NO

But there they are rolling out Infinity 2

Get your act together and at least roll out Infinity 1 to everyone first, it's not as though I'm in the middle of a bloody field 

[Grrrrrr]

The BT guy who did my Infinity install said it was capable of 80MB/s (theoretically - dependent on distance from nearest box, ambient temperature etc etc) but they set it at 40 because they weren't sure what the uptake would be. Seems they've still got bandwidth so they're offering higher speeds to tempt people away from Sky and Virgin?

[tunnie]

Sky are offering fibre too, where BT have it fitted. Not sure what deal we have struck with BT but our fibre matches all their upgraded boxes.

[TheBoy]

And wow, is it quick.....

We were getting less that 2 something or other and not getting 27 something or other, what a difference, I can watch a you tube video without having to pause it waiting for it to download.......

We could not get it before but they have just uprated the exchange.........

Sounds a tad slow, was that using a gay speedtester over wifi? Get a good baseline from a wired connection .  Wifi becomes the bottleneck on 76Mb FTTC such as Infinity 2.

[TheBoy]

I have to chuckle with BT, rolling out Infinity 2

They've been telling us for 2 years that we will have Infinity in our area....have we?   NO

But there they are rolling out Infinity 2

Get your act together and at least roll out Infinity 1 to everyone first, it's not as though I'm in the middle of a bloody field 

Why shouldn't they roll out 76Mb FTTC?  Utlimately its only a software upgrade and some remote configuration.  Whereas installing all those street cabinets, pulling in the fibres, fitting all the exchange equipment and bumping up the backhauls takes a lot of resource, a lot of planning, a lot of cooperation from local authorities, and a shitload of money, so it will be a slow process.

[Vamps]

And wow, is it quick.....

We were getting less that 2 something or other and not getting 27 something or other, what a difference, I can watch a you tube video without having to pause it waiting for it to download.......

We could not get it before but they have just uprated the exchange.........

Sounds a tad slow, was that using a gay speedtester over wifi? Get a good baseline from a wired connection .  Wifi becomes the bottleneck on 76Mb FTTC such as Infinity 2.

It's what the BT chap said and is more that the letter, we may have been brought up to date a bit but, from reading between the lines of our discussion the supply is still limited into our village......only 1 box in the centre of the village - does that sound right.....
Anyway I am happy, and I can watch you tube and other stuff without having to pause it till it downloaded as previously.....

[TheBoy]

Wire the lappy to router, then run www.speedtester.bt.com early in the morning. Post up actual, and profile

1 cabinet can have up to 800 lines, so if a small village, 1 cabinet

The fibre cabinet next to it though, that can only provide a very limited number of fibre broadband lines 

[Grrrrrr]

My understanding is that it is fibre to the cabinet and then copper to the house. This last bit is where most of the speed is lost. They used to have the control hardware in the exchanges but they've pushed all this out into the cabinets.

[TheBoy]

My understanding is that it is fibre to the cabinet and then copper to the house. This last bit is where most of the speed is lost. They used to have the control hardware in the exchanges but they've pushed all this out into the cabinets.

Correct.

And in some cases, the fibre from the cabinet does not go back to your local telephone exchange.
In my case, my voice line(s) go back to my local exchange (Brackley, SMBY, about 1.5m away), as you would expect, but my fibre broadband goes directly to a larger exchange in the land of the inbreds (Banbury, SMBB, about 12m away), and nowhere near my local exchange).

The distance between the (broadband) serving exchange and the cabinet doesn't matter, and has no impact on speed. Its the copper line length - the bit between the cabinet and your house, aka "D side" - that affects speed. The E side cable no longer has an impact like it does on a traditional ADSL line.

[feeutfo]

Interesting read.

(Wonders off to check O2 web site, see what our provider is offering, if anything.)

[TheBoy]

Interesting read.

(Wonders off to check O2 web site, see what our provider is offering, if anything.)

IIRC, O2 offer ADSL2+, thus 'up to 24Mbps'.  What do you get?

In reality, wifi is likely to bottom out around 15-30Mbps, depending on how many other wifi users around your area.

So, as I believe you only use wifi, you may not see a worthwhile benefit. So may not be worth paying the extra for it.

Does that make sense?

[Mr Skrunts]

About right.

Virgin are putting fibre down just one main street in the village next to me but not the rest of the village, so being out on a limb i doubt we will ever get offered that option.

Had a look at at the BT site and got this on a speed test.

BT Total Broadband BT Total Broadband BT Total BroadbandThe speed prediction we have provided is an estimate, however download speeds can vary and the actual download speed will fall between a range. This is generally within 1-2 Mb higher or lower than your estimated speed quoted    Between 3.0Mb and 7.0Mb
(Estimated speed: 4.0Mb)       Learn more
Sorry, you're not currently able to get BT Infinity. This may be because your area has not been enabled yet, or your individual line does not support super-fast broadband. Register your interest and we'll let you know if this changes.

I actually get about 5.2 but web pages are loading slower these days than they did when i first went on .5 ADSl