BT infinity

lostsoul25

Im new to BT and BT infinity. I have had it for a month or so.

My Dload speed is about 50mb
I know they have a rule where they limit peer to peer speeds to stop you dloading.

When I do the speedtest.net now for instance, my speed is 5mb.
Do other peoples have similiar speed, I know they were going to throttle back on downloading but not regular usage. its no good for my sky on demand.

Plus whats point in paying for faster speed when you only seem to get it when your in bed

googler

I'm on standard BT BBand, and speedtest reports 5.99Mbps for me at present...

lostsoul25

thats more annying, mines moving between 5 &6.8mb dload and 14mb upload

C_Mababejive

I do not see any point in having higher speed than i have now. I am on bog standard ADSL as suppled by an LLU provider so not BTs retail product. I have no limit and my download speed as per my router is 7.082 down and 1.209 up which is pretty good. I have connected to that two lappies,two mobiles,one Base PC and a TV box. I can certainly stream SD TV like iplayer with no glitches and probably HD too but im not greedy. I pay £9pm plus line rental. I have no need for a bigger pipe.

pullenuk

Reboot your router once see if that helps

lostsoul25

thanks, already done that a few times today and other days.
6am when i get up for work it will be running at 50mb

VisionMan

lostsoul25 wrote: »

Im new to BT and BT infinity. I have had it for a month or so.

My Dload speed is about 50mb
I know they have a rule where they limit peer to peer speeds to stop you dloading.

When I do the speedtest.net now for instance, my speed is 5mb.
Do other peoples have similiar speed, I know they were going to throttle back on downloading but not regular usage. its no good for my sky on demand.

Plus whats point in paying for faster speed when you only seem to get it when your in bed

P2P at 5Mbps during peak hours? You lucky sod, as its only supposed to be 1.

But they do allow unrestricted P2P gaming you know. What sites are you accessing?

pullenuk

lostsoul25 wrote: »

thanks, already done that a few times today and other days.
6am when i get up for work it will be running at 50mb

Do not reboot it regularly! It's not designed for that and the speed will drop so it will think there is a problem with the line. It will take time to build up. I reboot mine only when there is a problem and than is way less than once every two/three months.

C_Mababejive

I wouldnt advise rebooting the router either. I also woudnt fixate too much on speed. Instead of speed, think pipe size. Give me a 7mb pipe with high throughput rates over a 20Mb pipe with poor throughput any day.

The average punter can get by just fine on an 8Mb pipe and most of the talk that we see in advertising media is just hype and exploitation of misconceptions.

Viscount

As above posters have said, speed is not that critical. Bandwidth and contention is the key, although FTTC doesn't use contention in the same way as ADSL I'm led to believe.