BT infinity or something else?
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BT infinity or something else?
Hi
My current download speed is about 8Mbps. BT infinity fibre optic broadband is available in my area and estimate from their website checker is that BT infinity should give me 33-46 Mbps.
Is BT infinity the way to go or are there better options for enhanced download speed?
Thanks
My current download speed is about 8Mbps. BT infinity fibre optic broadband is available in my area and estimate from their website checker is that BT infinity should give me 33-46 Mbps.
Is BT infinity the way to go or are there better options for enhanced download speed?
Thanks
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Have to say, I have Infinity and it is amazing. Only had it 4 months but no issues so far. You can check SamKnows if you want another speed estimate.
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If you can't get Virgin then infinity is your best bet, I myself am lucky and have 160mg Virgin, and it's been great for the 6 years I've had the connection, it does go down sometimes but so did Adsl when I had it, the ping times are very very low, and it loads like mad...I can't fault them
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Massive issues with Infinity after install. The Home Hub 5 is utter garbage and drops connection to WAN and wifi all the time. BT engineer gave me an older Openreach modem to connect to the WAN rather than the HH5 and now the connection is much more solid.
They rated my line at 38-52Mb (on the Infinity website which also states the "real" speed will be within 1 or 2 meg of that) so went with the lower plan, I was getting about 23/24 which they said was perfectly acceptable (despite their own tools saying this was below what I should get worst case with an impacted line) Now I have the modem and a few faults on the line were fixed its now up at about 30mb and 9 up, which IMHO is still crap considering what I was told I would get.
To be honest, for the extra cost I should have just stuck with normal BB.
They rated my line at 38-52Mb (on the Infinity website which also states the "real" speed will be within 1 or 2 meg of that) so went with the lower plan, I was getting about 23/24 which they said was perfectly acceptable (despite their own tools saying this was below what I should get worst case with an impacted line) Now I have the modem and a few faults on the line were fixed its now up at about 30mb and 9 up, which IMHO is still crap considering what I was told I would get.
To be honest, for the extra cost I should have just stuck with normal BB.
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Strange. Quite a few of you seem to be impressed by Virgin. My bro inlaw switched from Sky to Virgin and moans about how bad it is, especially the range if the wifi router.
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So it seems Virgin is the way to go and uprate the router, they seem to promise up to 150mbps if you're willing to pay for it.
I've checked and there is fibre optic cable in my street, how will they get it into my property?
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I've checked and there is fibre optic cable in my street, how will they get it into my property?
Thanks
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Steve do u manage to get everything from Virgin news or are there lots of stuff missing, what's url for it....? I might give it a go.
I use newshosting at the moment never fails thus far...
I use newshosting at the moment never fails thus far...
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Most of the routers provided by ISP's are ****e, I bought a decent Asus router and the signal was epic, I picked it up in my car driving into the car park at my flats!
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Virgin is something completely different to fibre broadband is known as cable broadband. This is where Virgin have laid their own fibre optic cabling in streets and is mainly restricted to cities and large towns (or basically where their market research shows they will get a high enough takeup to warrant the cost of implementing it).
And all providers give you the crapiest of routers with weak wifi signal etc. If you want to get the best out of your connection you will need to invest in a much better router.
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What 'comes down the tubes' is merely to your master telephone socket in your house, normally the socket by the front door or sometimes in the lounge - basically the nearest point in your house to the road where they can run the cabling to. If you then connect a crap router to that socket or have a load of lengthy crappy internal wiring running off that master socket to other phone sockets all around your house your connection will be heavily impacted as it will if you connect your router to any socket other than the master socket. You can even improve on the master socket connection sometimes when removing it and plugging the router directly into the test socket that sits behind the faceplate of the master socket. The test socket is basically the direct connection to the copper wiring that runs to your house from the street cabinet.
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Thanks everybody.
Anonomous, a few questions please?
I have a telephone line/socket running into many rooms in the house. This was done professionally and I'm assuming using good quality cabling. Could this be impacting the speed of the broadband?
If that is the case then I suppose it strengthens the case for me to get bb that is not dependant on a phone line ie from Virgin?
I have my router by the main socket at present and I have a network distribution in the loft that sends a hardwired ethernet signal to many rooms in the house via cat5/6 cable.
If I go with virgin, the easiest place to get their cable into my house is into my front reception. There is an ethernet outlet here and my AV guy says he can use that to send the signal to the network distribution box in the loft and then to the rest of the house from there.
It's not the best room to have the wifi router in though. Should the router definitely take the signal straight from where the Virgin cable enters or is it ok to plug it into any of the ethernet sockets?
Thanks for your help
Anonomous, a few questions please?
I have a telephone line/socket running into many rooms in the house. This was done professionally and I'm assuming using good quality cabling. Could this be impacting the speed of the broadband?
If that is the case then I suppose it strengthens the case for me to get bb that is not dependant on a phone line ie from Virgin?
I have my router by the main socket at present and I have a network distribution in the loft that sends a hardwired ethernet signal to many rooms in the house via cat5/6 cable.
If I go with virgin, the easiest place to get their cable into my house is into my front reception. There is an ethernet outlet here and my AV guy says he can use that to send the signal to the network distribution box in the loft and then to the rest of the house from there.
It's not the best room to have the wifi router in though. Should the router definitely take the signal straight from where the Virgin cable enters or is it ok to plug it into any of the ethernet sockets?
Thanks for your help
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Ding yes to your virgin idea.
bring it in near the window or wherever, get them to drop in their Virgin superhub, then connect 1 port to that socket and your house will become Live.
Now heres where it gets messy, Virgins superb the old one was ****, the new ones may be better, but what i do is put the superb into Modem only mode, its a setting internally that basically switches off all the wifi and fancy router stuff, i then connect the super hub to my preferred model of router in my case a Linksys this then feed the said socket i have or you have.... only reason i do this is because the wifi on the virgin was pretty dire, also if you do my method you can swap and change the router at your own pleasure.
as for your BT socket question id say no, as long as your in the main socket thats as fast as you'll prob get.
so if you take your setup u have now and imagine another router before yours thats it.
You may have to change the BT router though to a proper WAN router with ethernet as the ADSL routers are just that ADSL and probably don't allow a connection to virgins superb or have a WAN port..
bring it in near the window or wherever, get them to drop in their Virgin superhub, then connect 1 port to that socket and your house will become Live.
Now heres where it gets messy, Virgins superb the old one was ****, the new ones may be better, but what i do is put the superb into Modem only mode, its a setting internally that basically switches off all the wifi and fancy router stuff, i then connect the super hub to my preferred model of router in my case a Linksys this then feed the said socket i have or you have.... only reason i do this is because the wifi on the virgin was pretty dire, also if you do my method you can swap and change the router at your own pleasure.
as for your BT socket question id say no, as long as your in the main socket thats as fast as you'll prob get.
so if you take your setup u have now and imagine another router before yours thats it.
You may have to change the BT router though to a proper WAN router with ethernet as the ADSL routers are just that ADSL and probably don't allow a connection to virgins superb or have a WAN port..
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Thanks everybody.
Anonomous, a few questions please?
I have a telephone line/socket running into many rooms in the house. This was done professionally and I'm assuming using good quality cabling. Could this be impacting the speed of the broadband?
Thanks for your help
Anonomous, a few questions please?
I have a telephone line/socket running into many rooms in the house. This was done professionally and I'm assuming using good quality cabling. Could this be impacting the speed of the broadband?
Thanks for your help
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Ding yes to your virgin idea.
bring it in near the window or wherever, get them to drop in their Virgin superhub, then connect 1 port to that socket and your house will become Live.
Now heres where it gets messy, Virgins superb the old one was ****, the new ones may be better, but what i do is put the superb into Modem only mode, its a setting internally that basically switches off all the wifi and fancy router stuff, i then connect the super hub to my preferred model of router in my case a Linksys this then feed the said socket i have or you have.... only reason i do this is because the wifi on the virgin was pretty dire, also if you do my method you can swap and change the router at your own pleasure.
as for your BT socket question id say no, as long as your in the main socket thats as fast as you'll prob get.
so if you take your setup u have now and imagine another router before yours thats it.
You may have to change the BT router though to a proper WAN router with ethernet as the ADSL routers are just that ADSL and probably don't allow a connection to virgins superb or have a WAN port..
bring it in near the window or wherever, get them to drop in their Virgin superhub, then connect 1 port to that socket and your house will become Live.
Now heres where it gets messy, Virgins superb the old one was ****, the new ones may be better, but what i do is put the superb into Modem only mode, its a setting internally that basically switches off all the wifi and fancy router stuff, i then connect the super hub to my preferred model of router in my case a Linksys this then feed the said socket i have or you have.... only reason i do this is because the wifi on the virgin was pretty dire, also if you do my method you can swap and change the router at your own pleasure.
as for your BT socket question id say no, as long as your in the main socket thats as fast as you'll prob get.
so if you take your setup u have now and imagine another router before yours thats it.
You may have to change the BT router though to a proper WAN router with ethernet as the ADSL routers are just that ADSL and probably don't allow a connection to virgins superb or have a WAN port..
Thanks Ted.
So Virgin bb, use their router for modem only and add another decent router. Correct?