due for install today... between 8am and 12... so ... 1/2 way through the wait.... got ~10mbit currently from my ADSL.. will see what I get from FTTC..
AAISP is waaaayyyyy too expensive. I can't believe anyone outside of business users would use them. I would rather take a throttled *Unlimited* package from BT than risk a £300 a month bill.
As above - FTTC is awesome just I personally chose not to go with BT - I'm with ADSL24 who don't throttle traffic as far as I know. Like others have said going from 2mb to 38mb is astonishing! @buzzons - I was told that if you receive less that 15mb from FTTC then BT technically class it as a fault and will fix it - you're more likely to get over 30mb though!
Tibby how would you ever get a 300£/month bill unless you whored your line 9am-5pm monday-friday... if you just used it in the evenings and weekends (when you're you know.. not at work) it's fine!
I think that AAISP one is catering more for people who download games and torrent the hell out of their Internet over night, not for people like a few of us who are often at home during the day (either working from home or for other reasons). Anyone who uses their Internet during the day would be screwed beyond belief on that ISP. I'm one who often works from home because of my current bad health; even connecting to my office account to read emails on average will eat between 5GB to 10GB a week (650-750MB per day approx).
fair enough the BE usage part of AA used to be cheaper (10x the BW that you used to get on BT) but I think they've brought it in line.
I tend to schedule network activity around hours when no-one is in the house, or from around 2am-8am. I just don't like a pricing plan where I have to worry about exactly what I use.
Problem with O2/Be is that Be is waiting to rollout a new fibre backbone, which will likely enable them to handle the bandwith of a FTTC service- Sky has currently done this. 15mb is the basic min that BT will sell their FTTC service at, its the speed they guaruntee. BT do offer a sub 15 meg Fibre service, i believe its option 3 with fibre. Basically for those that are only a very long line can get up like 5mb etc.
I just upgraded yesterday to vision and still kinda meh about it. BT as a company have been alright, there service has been solid and happy to accommodate free hub upgrades and early plan switching etc. Recently they screwed around with the green box and the lift in our house started screwing with the connection (no idea why or how). Upgrading solved it but BT refused to acknowledge it was their problem before that. As for the upgrade itself, engineer in, engineer out, new details entered and life goes on. Speeds are more stable Old before green box tinkering: 3-4Mbps down, 0.6 Mbps up Old after green box tinkering: 1-7Mbps (1Mbps was at 1am and 7Mbps at 9pm) down, 0.3Mbps Up BT Infinity: 35Mbps down, 7Mbps Up. I'm over the moon about up speed (minecraft server!! lol) down hasn't really changed anything part from steam downloads finishing quicker.
ive been tempted to move from virgin but its too expensive. 10mb soon to be 20mb package from virgin = £21.50 / month bt infinity unlmited 40mb = £26 + 10.75 line = £36.75 / month nice £15.25 more expensive. i know you get double the speed and a phone so its still good value for money really but if you dont want a phone virgin is the better choice. I havent quoted cheaper inifiinty options as they are all limited to 40GB a month !!!!!!!!!! thats is really rubbish if you do any sort of downloading or streaming.
BT will only do a minimum of 18months, and as a tenant this is unreasonable, so looks like we will be sticking with O2 for now.
You do actually get a good upload with the BT FTTC service unlike Virgin- so if your streaming etc its alot better. Also their are alot of other providers out their but overall the pricing is not bad compared to other countries. Their are plenty of other Isp's that offer BT's FTTC service with flexible contracts.
So, you can bond FTTC with a good ISP (see AAISP again). I've just migrated both my lines from AAISP with BE back-hall to AAISP with FTTC. I've also moved to their 80mbit FTTC trial on both lines and this is the outcome One line is syncing at 79.7Mbit/s and the other at 59.8Mbit/s (it had some packet loss due to crazy BT cabling..so hopefully it'll train up over the next few days). To achieve this set-up I'm using a Routerboard 751G and the two provided BT FTTC modems.
Duh question... I'm with Sky on an ADSL line. Can I get Infinity therefore, or is it a whole new network?
Sky is launching their own FTTC product, Infinity is just the BT retail product name, the actual service is FTTC from Openreach. If your pcp cab gets a fibre twin you will be able to get FTTC via any provider that offers it, sky will start offering FTTC soon.
