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2012 upgrade will see Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) services double in speed.
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2012 upgrade will see Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) services double in speed.
Hmm, they still haven't finished the FTTC rollout yet and they are talking about upgrades....I'm in Plymouth and we 'supposedly' get it end of December.....at then they have Cornwall to go....
And more importantly (for me at least!) is when will BE get their fibre service going? :(
I guess the main question is "when will LLU Fibre be available?"Quote:
Originally Posted by shaithis
A few ISPs are reselling Infinity wholesale, but all of them have bandwidth caps
We get FTTP enabled end of October, with somewhere in the town getting FTTH too. I'm dreading going back to BT though.
we can't get it at all and there are no plans here either :(
Same for me - but I have to say i'm very happy with 20mpbs (although I would like a choice in case my ISP starts being silly).
I know, I know, it's never enough but..
Other than the major outage earlier this week, the move from Be to BT has been night & day in terms of reliability.
I *know* BT are crap, and if you need to call support you're ****ed. But the reliability of Infinity versus what I was getting from Be is night and day.
I'm playing online games for the first time since I moved into this house. Online games!!!
but still a little bandwidth cap... whats the point in these products if BT dont want you downloading on them.
My house was meant to be able to get FTTC in March 2011... the estimated installation date is now January 2012 :( By then I have no reason to get a 1 year contract that I'll be cancelling within 8 months. Damn engineers taking their time.
At least I've been able to play online games here, until recently anyway; tree's have grown over the cables and the reliability has taken a dive.
I think they should focus on getting the whole country on 20MBPS at least first.
We're currently tied into a contract with BT and I have to say I don't like it at all.
At the moment my speed is about 1.19MBPS. :censored: :censored: :censored:
they should concentrate on making rural areas faster before pushing ahead with this imo. i'm lucky to get 1.5mb
I think the basic infrastructure (cabinet equipment and fibre links) are 80Mb/s capable as installed, so it is probably an upgrade to the gateway servers that will be needed, which is relatively easy to implement.
No date for FTTC for me either, but I masy be moving house later this year, and theavailability of FTTC will be one of my requirements!
Looking at the plans for my area they are installing it in stupid places and missing out the town! All the area around the town are getting it but the town it self is missed out. Its not like the surrounding areas can't already get decent internet either, these places can get 100mbps VM but the town can't.
<gollum>I want the precioussssssssss!</gollum>
Very tempting (as you have probably guessed from the above :P), but I still plan on waiting for it to be available via LLU to make the jump to fibre.
We could get infinity in our old house, but cant in our new house in the same town ):. Still we get decent speed compared to other places.
At this rate i will be moving from Virgin to BT keep it up BT :)
Any idea if this will increase the speeds for those who aren't currently hitting max speed of 40Mbs?
I'm about 2.5 miles from Sheffield city centre and yet I still don't even have a provisional installation date for BT infinity. Sheffield - you know about the 5th largest city in the country and not even a sniff or potential sniff of it. I don't even have the option of Virgin, so I'm stuck at the end of a copper line over 2 miles from the exchange receiving a poultry 2Mbs. I really gets my goat given I can be in the city centre in 5 minutes and there's naff all news on when this might reach us?
Couldn't agree more - just for devilment I just checked what speed I could expect from BT if I was to switch, answer 3Mb/s. Pretty damned pathetic considering I already get 10x that from Virgin, (with the option to go to 50Meg), and VM's prices are about the same as BT's.Quote:
Originally Posted by George1
BTW, I'm in a town, not some rural backwater, (or Sheffield's inner ring - right "cptwhite_uk"?)!
This! And then some!Quote:
Originally Posted by George1
I know we are about 10 years behind the rest of the world in terms of speed but our infrastructure is about 30. Priorities BT - priorities!
All this is very interesting, but I wonder what they will do with Exchange Only connections. Quite a lot of rural connections are like this. We don't have a street cabinet, we just have a line that go right to the exchange, running a length of Cat5 would work if you were allowed.
Perhaps FTTP would work in this case, FTTC certainly wouldn't. But even an upgrade to ADSL2+ would be nice :(
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Originally Posted by George1
Laptop via landline:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1520939606.png
Laptop via mobile phone:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1520943360.png
And through the mobile I've had over 4.5Mb/s a few times.. but I've only passed the 1Mb/s barrier through the landline once.
And yes, I too am in a decent-sized town, and no they don't offer anything faster.
Guess which one I use more often. Also guess which one I used to d/l Windows 8 beta with, and anything else of any decent size :D
And yes, focus on 20Mb/s before bumping up those already on 40Mb/s - though granted, it may be considerably cheaper to boost from 40 compared to raising those with ****y connections to 20 (or 40). If it only costs £1/household to boost from 40 to 80, and £100 to boost from 1 or 2 to 20, I know I'd be tempted to up the 40 to 80..
If you pay very little for internet you shouldn't be complaining it's not up to them to pay for you to have a faster service. There is a massive problem with the up to.. anyway.
The complaint is that he pays the SAME amount as others receiving a far better connection speed. It's not like he is in the sticks either, part of a reasonably sized town.
I live on a farm 5 km away from the exchange I'm connected to and get 2Mbps comfortably. I pay £29 a month for the landline and internet package and I bet he could get the exact same package from IDNet but it wouldn't change his connection speed.
How is it acceptable that he pays the same for an internet service that is considerably worse than mine?
Yes please! Love my 40meg connection!