News - BT Infinity speed increases for no extra charge

[directhex]

Managed to order it online this morning. Predicted speeds are 51Mb/10Mb, current speeds are 37Mb/8Mb sor not the greatest improvement but hoping BT are under estimating.

I was predicted 60/20 and got 75/15

[DR]

How can people complain on a free speed increase

[jimborae]

How can people complain on a free speed increase

Don't get me wrong, not complaining just hoping for an under estimate and hex appears to confirm this maybe true. As you say any free speed upgrade is welcome.

[DR]

Don't get me wrong, not complaining just hoping for an under estimate and hex appears to confirm this maybe true. As you say any free speed upgrade is welcome.

Indeed, I will check mine on Sunday for you

[BerZerk]

My speed this morning, I don't like the upload speed though.

[dfour]

Im still waiting for my exchange to be setup and I live in a reasonable sized town.

My line is really poor and I live roughly 3 miles from the exchange so the best speed I get is 4-5 megs but its been down as low as 1.5 meg a couple of months ago

[w1ntergr33n]

Nice. Virgin just jacked up the price for our broadband and no performance increase

[watercooled]

I don't think much will meet the satisfaction of telling Virgin to shove it.

[Agent]

I'm with Sky at the moment, but I think this guy has summed it up nicely: http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...9&postcount=49

Sky

40Mbps down
2Mbps up
no usage caps
no traffic management
Locked to Sky TV subscribers
£50 installation fee
£20 a month (£12.50 more than Sky BB unlimited with TV)
£17.25 a month Sky Talk unlimited
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£37.25 a month Total Sky FTTC + phone unlimited

As a Sky Line Rental and Sky TV subscriber, I can get the following from:

BT Infinity:

40Mbps down
10Mbps up
no usage caps
P2P traffic management
Not locked to any TV service
No installation fee (not even for a new BT line)
No need to get a MAC code
I can keep the Sky line until I'm satisfied with the new BT line's performance and stability.
£25 a month
£14.90 a month BT phone unlimited (if rental paid a year up front)
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£39.90 a month Total BT FTTC + phone unlimited

(there's also a £9 one-off discount over 3 months, after paying a £6 modem delivery charge)

The upshot of all this is a relative cost increase of going Sky FTTC of £59 for installation etc., and a five times slower upload speed for a monthly saving of £2.65. Over an 18 month BT contract, that leaves me £11 out of pocket if go for Sky FTTC.

If I go with BT Infinity + phone unlimited, I save £11 over 18 months, and get a five times faster upload speed. I also have the promise of a speed doubling later this year to 80/20 (which may cost more). The only downside I can think of is traffic management of torrents etc., which I don't use.

If the info that's so far been released is correct, it's a no brainer. BT here I come.

Torrent freaks will think differently.

I don't use torrents, so I'm happy that I can satisfy Spud by joining his network without having to buy a NAS.

I've really had no issues with Sky, and leaving them for BT makes me worry a little bit.....but that upload! Very useful for online backup.

[Agent]

BT Infinity ordered - there was just no point staying with Sky for the price difference given the massive upload / download increase for only another few quid. I should be in the house for another 18 months, so no downsides as far as I can see

[Flash477]

BT Infinity ordered - there was just no point staying with Sky for the price difference given the massive upload / download increase for only another few quid. I should be in the house for another 18 months, so no downsides as far as I can see

There is no downside. Especially as you can now use Anytime+ with any broadband connection.

[watercooled]

Hey guys I've just heard there's a half-price deal for new customers starting tomorrow!

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Just kidding Agent.

[Spud1]

Just got home and tested my connection..upgrade is also live here. They estimated 56/15 and I got effectively 58/16 so I am pretty happy to be honest Agent - I also moved from Sky to BT although it was 5 months ago, and I moved because sky had not decided what they were doing w/r to fibre yet..looks like I made the right choice to jump when I did! It was a really easy process actually (Scarily so), hope that your switchover goes well too

[BerZerk]

Just got home and tested my connection..upgrade is also live here. They estimated 56/15 and I got effectively 58/16 so I am pretty happy to be honest Agent - I also moved from Sky to BT although it was 5 months ago, and I moved because sky had not decided what they were doing w/r to fibre yet..looks like I made the right choice to jump when I did! It was a really easy process actually (Scarily so), hope that your switchover goes well too

At least you got better upload than mine... I got around 74/13Mbps

[choco]

free speed increase? cant complain about that!

[aidanjt]

free speed increase? cant complain about that!

I'm sure someone will try, none the less.