BOO!!!! Just got a phone line installed and Be Internet won't provide service in my area so upsetting! What's the next best option?
I don't mean to hijack, but has anyone here got BT Fiber (Infinity) 40Mb and do a lot of downloading? I just got it, and the speed is great and all, and they've told me that it's a business line and that I have unlimited everything and the connection will never be capped, but I'm not convinced and would like to hear it from the horses mouth (i.e. not the sales lady on the phone) before I go full bore and start downloading 10+GB per day... I would advise you to stay away from o2 if you do a lot of downloading or stream a lot of video. They cap all types of streaming video to a percentage of your connection speed, and their FUP is very harsh in my opinion. Their connection is good, but the bandwidth management is what makes it a crap service, if you download a lot.
No worries, I was interested in BT Infinity. Apparently the place I'm going to has Fibre Optic cables to the building, but copper to the rest of the house. Don't know if that means I'll get full FO speeds....
If your exchange is LLU, then it has to be Sky or Be. So in your case given that Be are not an option give Sky a call. Yes I may have a bias towards Sky, but their LLU offering is great, with a true unlimited service.
Sounds similar to fibre to cab. This is what virgin use for all there services and i believe bt use too (fibre cables only go to the cabinets in the street / in the multiple occupancy building and the rest of the way is over copper coax cables). Fibre to house isn't currently used over here commercially as far as I'm aware, but i would assume that you should get the full advertised speed (unless the building is over capacity).
boycot talktalk like the plague unless you like being on the phone for ages trying to sort out problems which just come back to bite you in the ass
I've been with BTinternet and Sky. The former really sucked, the latter has always been ace for broadband. Shame their tv packages and installations suck
Firstly what is youre exchange http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search Then we can see what options are available to you. BT's FTTC is fibre from the exchange to a new fibre cabinet which is situated next to the exisitng cabinet which is connected to the fibre twin, the connection is then copper to the house. FTTP is being rolled out by BT in a few locations across the country, it costs considerably more to rollout out, so total coverage will be small compared to FTTC. However BT has announced starting in 2013 people will be able to order FTTP on demand where their local cab is FTTC enabled- basically fibre is taken from the cab to the house. No offical costs yet but likely to go into the hundreds but will be cheaper then a ethernet service.
I would be extremely happy to even have FTTC. The main cause of degradation in speed, of the current ADSL connection, is the length of the copper wire, so cabinet to house (in my case some 30 yards away) should in theory be pretty good. Alas that is still some time away.
FTTC speeds have been sycning of 40/10 to up to 600 meters and further, with the move to profile 17a (allows 80/20) those further away will get a increase in speed. Those results are only for the test areas that ofcom take their stats from, what you will be able to get all depends on the length and quaility of the phone line to the exchange.
Another shout for Be* if available, otherwise Plusnet are good (although I did find my Be connection a little better than my Plusnet connection I have now). https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html That'll tell you your estimated speed, and will show if FTTC available - tends to be reliable\quite accurate.
I see all these shouts for 'be' but apparently thay cant give me anything as they say i live too far away from an exchange
For the record, I signed up with Be and got set up right away, no problems. Only getting 5.4MB from an advertised 24MB. Although, it is what they said I would be getting. Anyone else on BE? What speeds you getting?
Completely depends on how close you are to your exchange. I get 1.2-1.4 MB/s, my friend a few streets down gets 700 KBps tops.
I got 22.8 and 21.7 MBps from their 24 service in Manchester, 1.8 and 2.1km from the exchange respectively. Ouch! Dodgy bit of wiring in your street eh?
No no, hence the capitalisation. I get 1200-1400 kilobytes per second, 1.2 Megabytes (MB) not megabits (Mb). It's unfortunate that companies insist on using the term megabit, but bigger sounds better. The best we can do is try to use abbreviations properly
No, I meant that you get 1.2-1.4 and your friend gets 700k. For living down the street that's a bit suck, unless it's 5 miles long.
