BT Infinity Fibre -v- Standard BT broadband
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I swapped from 50meg Virgin to 73meg BT Infinity - BT have a much better network with far fewer bottlenecks and even at peak time I can still stream HD to multiple devices without any hint of buffering. Virgin could never do that and struggled with iPlayer on a regular basis on just the iPad. It's not just your local connection speed to the cabinet or exchange that counts but your ISP's back end connections to content providers and peering points - in this area BT are King and Virgin are an also ran.
BT of the past were incompetent and the worst to deal with but they've cleaned their act up recently.
BT of the past were incompetent and the worst to deal with but they've cleaned their act up recently.
George111 said:
It's not just your local connection speed to the cabinet or exchange that counts but your ISP's back end connections to content providers and peering points - in this area BT are King and Virgin are an also ran.
Interesting comments. Any particular reason why you say this?ffc said:
George111 said:
It's not just your local connection speed to the cabinet or exchange that counts but your ISP's back end connections to content providers and peering points - in this area BT are King and Virgin are an also ran.
Interesting comments. Any particular reason why you say this?George111 said:
Do you not agree ?
I wouldnt agree that they're an also ran, Virgin have sold their links to different types of providers than BT went for. Mobile networks for example, and a lot of data and backhaul to providers. It's a different type of network, didnt need as much overhaul as BT's has, but in residential land it probably looks the same for triple play £25/month jobbies.THe same thing will always crop up though when looking at FTTC/ELM/whatever it is - how many other people are on that wire and how much priority can you get for what you're paying
George111 said:
ffc said:
George111 said:
It's not just your local connection speed to the cabinet or exchange that counts but your ISP's back end connections to content providers and peering points - in this area BT are King and Virgin are an also ran.
Interesting comments. Any particular reason why you say this?Just need to get this off my chest, but BT so-called Broadband is MISERABLE. I'm on supposedly an 8meg line, and I get 0.4. BT say that's fine, the minimum guaranteed speed is 256K.
I've spent much of today trying to sort this out. It's awful. And they want another £7 per month for Fibre, which supposedly goes up to 50Mb. That'll be 2.5Mb then, at the same ratio.
I've spent much of today trying to sort this out. It's awful. And they want another £7 per month for Fibre, which supposedly goes up to 50Mb. That'll be 2.5Mb then, at the same ratio.
Been on Openreach FTTC for years and it has been fast and reliable with at most one or two outages though if you challenged me I could not tell you when or how long so clearly not significant. Most of those years were with BT on Infinity and then Infinity 2. For the last year (almost) have been with Uno who use the Openreach backhaul so same connection so far as my house and exchange are concerned. Equally fast and reliable but a LOT cheaper and much, much nicer to deal with.
Have never used the BT router, while I was with BT I used a Draytek and the Openreach modem, with Uno I am now using a Netgear which does not need the modem.
Have never used the BT router, while I was with BT I used a Draytek and the Openreach modem, with Uno I am now using a Netgear which does not need the modem.
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