I want to cry...

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there's probably a catch somewhere, get everyone on it, then up the price possibly, or make it difficult to switch back

£26 is still expensive, but the speed is nice, but for a lot of people who just browse, watch iplayer, a 8mb connection is sufficient. Don't forget about BT line rental on top when comparing.

shouldn't have to change anything on here, to use the old account, other than the email address if you want alerts.

don't know how you were paying £32/month to TT unless you were getting extras, that's 10 times the normal price from TT

£3.25 unlimited broadband, £14.50 line rental, free evening and weekend calls, total price £17.75/month, compared to at least £36.75 from BT.

Im_just_careful

CGG wrote: »

Whoo-hoo! Open Reach have been and gone. Everything went honkey-dorey and I'm a happy bunny.

Just one thing, though, does anyone know how I can set my old TalkTalk account to forward any incoming emails automatically to my new BT email address, please?

If you are changing e-mail addresses you might want to consider moving to Yahoo or Googlemail (or similar) rather than changing from one ISP supplied address to another.

There are two advantages with Yahoo or Googlemail

1) If you ever change broadband suppliers you won't have to change e-mail address again

2) If you ever get a device (tablet, iPod Touch, Kindle, phone etc.) that you use outside the home sending e-mails will still work outside the home.

My best pick would be Googlemail but Yahoo and perhaps AOL are worth thinking about.

I think Googlemail can import your old e-mails for a while as well.

kwikbreaks

closed wrote: »

are you on the cheap package with a 40GB download allowance, option 2 should be upto 76Mb download speed, but an older pc may register a lower speed test

I think the only differentiation between the Infinity options is download allowance.

Even FTTC speeds vary by distance but it's distance from the cabinet rather than the exchange.

The cutoff point at which BT won't supply FTTC as the Infinity product used to be 15Mbps although that was when it was 40Mbps as the top offering so I'm not sure if they increased that along with the max available doubling.

44Mbps does suggest either a long distance from the cabinet or something less than optimal with the PC but it's still far better than most folks can get as has already been mentioned. Had I proceeded with Infinity which I would have done had BT bothered to show up and do the booked install I'd been quoted 60Mbps and I'm 300m from the cabinet. As they chose to drink tea or indulge in some other more agreeable persuit rather than turn up I stuck with cable.

closed

not according to the bt website,

option 1 is upto 38Mb/s, option 2 upto 76Mb/s, option 3 upto 160Mb/s

kwikbreaks

Fair enough I was working on memory on package speed.

He said he'd picked option 2 in his initial post anyway.

JethroUK

CGG wrote: »

... I am stumped at the Wireless Ethernet 802.11n........

It is a wireless network card - you can buy one for £10 - you can plug it in yourself - but

CGG wrote: »

... .... I am currently on a wired router...

...

Then you dont need wireless network card

BT wireless router will also have a plug in network socket just like your current set up - just plug your PC in there - but it does assume your new router will be in the same place as your old router (the wires will reach just the same)

Thats exactly how mine is set up -

In fact - hard wired network is faster (74389207421943784214 GB per second ) ) and more reliable if your cable is already laid - which is why my main PC is hard wired to the router

everything else picks it up wirelessly:

my laptop
my TV
my PS3
my tablet
my mobile

my sons mobile & ipad when he comes round

didda didda didda

CGG

CGG wrote: »

Download: 44173 kbps
Upload: 9628 kbps

Is this good?

Today I'm getting:-
Download: 50119
Upload: 10000

Does the weather affect these readings?

kwikbreaks

Speedtests are often inconsistent - you need to get to the actual line statistics which would show sync rate, attenuation, and noise margin but I think it may well require a home hub hack for you to be able to see them.

That said lower temperatures reduce the attenuation slightly so could increase speeds but I doubt very much if you'd see the sort of change you've seen in the speed test results.

Ectophile

nickcc wrote: »

Not sure this is part of this thread but BT have been constantly pushing, phone calls and letters, for us to change from total broadband to infinity which we refused as there would be an increase of £5 per month and we already get a download speed that is plenty fast enough. BT have now offered us infinity with new hub and free installation for no extra charge which we have accepted, anyone else been offered this and if so any drawbacks ?

I've been offered it. The only drawback so far is that they haven't actually been able to give me the upgrade. The first time I phoned, they didn't have any appointments, and the second time (today), my line was apparently being migrated.

So far as I can tell, there aren't any sneaky catches. Check if your current pricing plan is the same as the Infinity equivalent. Provided it is, there should be no unexpected price rises at the end of your minimum contract - but if you has previously negotiated a discount then that would have run out anyway.

nickcc

Ectophile wrote: »

I've been offered it. The only drawback so far is that they haven't actually been able to give me the upgrade. The first time I phoned, they didn't have any appointments, and the second time (today), my line was apparently being migrated.

So far as I can tell, there aren't any sneaky catches. Check if your current pricing plan is the same as the Infinity equivalent. Provided it is, there should be no unexpected price rises at the end of your minimum contract - but if you has previously negotiated a discount then that would have run out anyway.

Just negotiated a new contract with the monthly charge reduced by a further £3 making it just under £11 per month. The contract stays the same with no increase for infinity so looks to be the way to go. The installation is booked for mid December, would have been earlier but just missed the appointment. Infinity for option 1 would have been £18 so £11 must be a good deal, if they try to increase at the end of the contract I'll have to look, or threaten to, for a different supplier.