BT Infinity Broadband Vs UTV Fibre Optic Broadband

Bigcammy

Morienos wrote: »

I get nearly the top end of speed with ADSL, I was wondering what the value was with Infinity, beyond the shift in upload speed?

It benefits those further away from the exchange who get very low speeds, so that's where they target customers

Bigcammy

BT actually works out cheaper but is capped at 40gb for the package I'm looking at. I don't expect to hit this so I'm happy to go with BT, thanks all.

Douzeper

If i could get it, and if possible I was going to go with Virgin as they do a Broadband only package, I don't need a landline. So saving a lot of money on line rental with BT.

sheerdelight

Check the utv site web pages to see the cost of leaving. Everyone has to pay to leave. £40-£60+. It don't think it is listed in their up front pricing structure but contained on the Legal Information tab

wacko911

BT = capped and throttled, no good for torrents. Even the 'unlimited' plan has a 300gb fair usage limit after which your limited to 2mbps (at peak times?) for the remainder of the current month and the whole of the next month (you could hit 300gb in less than a day at 40mbps or 4Mb/s).

spike7451

Douzeper wrote: »

Just been told I can't get Infinity as I am 2.3KM away from the exchange

I am currently getting 1.2 MBit/sec

Nonsense.With Infinity you're not connected to the exchange.BT run a fibre optic cable to a new street cabinet that is sited about 20 feet from the cabinet you are currently connected to.The is then a short multi-pair drop cable that links the two cabinets up.
All the BT engineer does is hook up the new feed from exchange to this cabinet into your existing copper cabling in your current cabinet.
These new cabinets are the green boxes that are springing up every where.
Put your phone number in the link below.that'll tell you what you can get.

https://btwholesale.com/pages/static/Community/Broadband_Community/Coverage/ADSL_Availibility_Checker.html

For me its;

Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial check on your postcode indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband service that provides a fixed line speed up to 2Mbps.


Our check also indicates that your line currently supports an estimated ADSL Max broadband line speed of 6Mbps; typically the line speed would range between 5Mbps and 8Mbps.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 32.7 Mbps and upstream line speed of 7 Mbps.

Douzeper

I was thinking about this today, and is that not reason why they need fibre as two pair copper wire has limitations, email received from the BT NIBroadband team:

"I have checked the routing from Antrim exchange to your premises and it is routed via cabinet 1, at the (street name removed). I can tell you that this cabinet has been upgraded to provide fibre broadband products and whilst this will be beneficial to many customers in the area, unfortunately your premises at around 2.3km away, are currently too distant to benefit from this technology.

I appreciate this is not the response you had hoped for but I can assure you we are continually testing and adopting new technologies with a view to increasing the range and speeds of our current broadband products.
Regards
NI Broadband team."

I wonder is it the fact that I only have overhead cables and it would be too expensive to dig up the roads etc?

spike7451 wrote: »

Nonsense.With Infinity you're not connected to the exchange.BT run a fibre optic cable to a new street cabinet that is sited about 20 feet from the cabinet you are currently connected to.The is then a short multi-pair drop cable that links the two cabinets up.
All the BT engineer does is hook up the new feed from exchange to this cabinet into your existing copper cabling in your current cabinet.
These new cabinets are the green boxes that are springing up every where.
Put your phone number in the link below.that'll tell you what you can get.

https://btwholesale.com/pages/static/Community/Broadband_Community/Coverage/ADSL_Availibility_Checker.html

For me its;

Douzeper

It seems the Broadband team might be correct:

http://www.broadbandchoices.co.uk/cannot-get-bt-infinity.html

saverbuyer

spike7451 wrote: »

Nonsense.With Infinity you're not connected to the exchange.BT run a fibre optic cable to a new street cabinet that is sited about 20 feet from the cabinet you are currently connected to.The is then a short multi-pair drop cable that links the two cabinets up.
All the BT engineer does is hook up the new feed from exchange to this cabinet into your existing copper cabling in your current cabinet.
These new cabinets are the green boxes that are springing up every where.
Put your phone number in the link below.that'll tell you what you can get.

https://btwholesale.com/pages/static/Community/Broadband_Community/Coverage/ADSL_Availibility_Checker.html

For me its;

There’s definitely a Goldilocks effect with Infinity. I’m too close to the exchange. We are so close there’s no need for a green cabinet so we are “plugged in” directly. It’s twisted pair for me.