BT Infinity - anyone got it yet?

[SuicidaL]

No I expect they'll invest in aggressive marketing rather than improving their product.

they have been testing new uploads recently,

10meg down = 1meg up from 512kb
20meg down = 2meg up from 768kb
50meg down = 5/10meg up from 1.5meg

if this starts to get rolled out, it'll be a start.

[smelly]

I don't use any torrent products. It's mostly WoW and iplayer. With the occasional ftp. The ftp I schedule for 1am onwards anyway.

I live at the bottom of a valley and the copper has to come round the top following the road even though the point to point distance from my house to the exchange isn't very far, the route adds another 2 miles to the copper. This is why adsl2 was always crap here. The green cab it just up the road from me about 200m away. I would have liked to have stayed with O2 but they have no plans as yet of offering FTTC.

[Neo_VR]

I dont know if BT have changed since i last used them (just under 2 years ago) but back then they throttled iplayer at peak times too.

Id love to get infinity.. but not while only BT offer it..

[geezerone]

Interested in this thread after the marketing hype BT output recently. Would like to know how usenet and P2P etc perform too.

I checked and could get 28Mbps compared to 6.5Mbps d/l currently but it is BT and with their customer service I am prepared to wait a little while to see what competition there is.

[yamangman]

Its weird im with Sky and get the 16mb pacakge from which I get the full 1600kbps. But upon going to the infinity website - It said I could now get it but the top speed I can hope to acheive is 14MB? :S Something wrong there!

So until BT actually offer an improvement over the competition (bearing in mind I also only pay £10 per month for my Sky package which is unlimited as I can do 600GB a month if I wish) then I wont even contemplate leaving.

Been with BT before - costs more than the rest - is less reliable - Customer service is terrible and they ALWAYS throttle usenet etc whether your over limit or not.

That is an upgrade if you're only getting 1600 kbps.

[Bluecube]

Just had it installed. The engineer was here a wee while but that's because he was installing an extension cable from the master socket to a room where there was space to plug everything in... All nice and smooth. Details below for download and upload speeds. The upload speed is a bit disappointing but the download speed is 4mbit more than what the BT website told me to expect so that's a result! For comparison I was previously getting 3.5mbit download and about 1mbit upload.

[smelly]

There is apparently a bit of time for the line to stabilise. Upload should be a bit higher, but the download will vary due to time of day - try it tonight at 7pm.

[Bluecube]

There wasn't any difference at 7pm last night. However, I have noticed fluctuations in the speed. It's been 11Mbits at times and is currently topping out at 23Mbits. So long as it stabilises over 20Mbits, I'll be happy.

I'm NOT happy with the BT Home Hub though. My networked printer isn't playing ball with it which I think is down to Bonjour not being supported out of the box. Worked fine with my old router I think I'll be looking at other routers to replace the Home Hub.

[watercooled]

The router shouldn't make any difference to the LAN side, the 4 LAN ports are just a switch.

[Bluecube]

Not quite. 3 of the ports are regular LAN ports whilst one is for the broadband connection only. I suspect this is a standard WAN port than you find in cable routers.

Whatever is happening inside the hub it isn't happy talking to my printer and I can't find any useful settings to get it to work. It's early days though!

[watercooled]

Well however many there are, the LAN ports are connected to some sort of switching fabric. Is everything set to the same workgroup/domain?

[Bluecube]

I use OSX so workgroups and domains don't apply. I think it's a firewall issue (on the router) as I can connect to the printers inbuilt web server to see the configuration pages, just not print. It seems that the Mac can't see the printer.

Just double checked there was no cabling issues, etc and plugged in my old router and it printed fine.

[watercooled]

The firewall only acts between LAN and WAN, unless it's a true multi-port router which I doubt. The switch fabric operates independent of the router at layer 2 i.e. the actual router will never see traffic sent between LAN clients. I'm not too sure how Mac networking works so the router maybe interfering with something, it might have something to do with DHCP. Also check network settings i.e. gateway, subnet mask, etc are correct on the router and connected devices.

[Bluecube]

I see what you're saying now. I think it may be a Bonjour thing. I'll double check the network settings later but they seemed ok last time I looked.

[malice19]

From what I've read elsewhere, the most bandwidth-intensive protocols are throttled regardless of your package, or whether or not you've hit the FUP limit - how are you finding BitTorrent and Usenet speeds, if you have a use for such things?

Interested in this thread after the marketing hype BT output recently. Would like to know how usenet and P2P etc perform too.

I checked and could get 28Mbps compared to 6.5Mbps d/l currently but it is BT and with their customer service I am prepared to wait a little while to see what competition there is.

Recently got a call from BT advising this is now available in my area and that i could get up to 36MB which sounds great compared to my current 6MB.
But I also want to see what speeds people are getting when using Bit torrent and P2P on the infinity line???? Worried it would be pointless if they throttle it to no better than i have now?

[Bluecube]

Using uTorrent I'm getting a torrent download speed of around 500kB/s. This is far faster than what I had with "normal" broadband but also far slower than the 2.5MB/s download that my line is capable of. I think it's down to the torrent seeds restricting their upload speed rather than any traffic shaping by BT though.