40 Meg sounds great, doesn't it? Alas this is BT managed 40 Meg and BT's increasingly aggressive 'management' was the reason I skipped ship to Sky. I was finding that some things, like app updates, were taking literally an hour or more to download and at times iPlayer had become virtually unusable.
40 meg would be great if it was available when it mattered. Alas, BT 16 Meg had - for me - become as slow or slower than the BT 500k service I originally subscribed to 10 years ago. Sky also give me 16 Meg, but it's 16 Meg that is real, not a number in an aspirational advert with a nauseating couple, that can only be achieved between 4 and 5 am on a Sunday without an r in the month and when the moon is full and a brilliant shade of blue.
Honestly, I couldn't be less excited about BT's Infinity. The hype and adverts are just aren't washing with me and those I know who have bought into it still do not achieve the service I do with Sky when they want to use it. They can get it when they don't want to use it, but what use is that to them?
I think I'll wait for Sky or someone else to do the fibre service I want as I'm sure they will once they think the infrastructure is there to achieve it on a wide enough scale to make it worth selling. What we are seeing at the moment is the same rush we saw when ADSL was first unleashed. With BT heavily promoting a service that is mostly not available and these boards are already awash with no end of complainants decrying the fact that they know not when or even if digital nirvana will arrive in Upper Cockerworth-in-the-Wold or, indeed Weatherfield... Damed! That exchange in Rosamond Street has been activated for months and BT still can't tell my Hilda when she can get something better than 3.2 Meg in Coronation Street.
When it arrived, ADSL really was the dogs testes when compared to dial-up. It really was worth rushing into, but I'm not convinced that noisily loading your instruments aboard the FTTC wagon is worth it just yet. Patience is a virtue.... It can also save you much heartache and bitter disappointment when it turns out that the dog you thought you were buying has actually had his testes removed and is better at meowing than barking.
Des
The original 32 bit junkie now snorting pure 64. Sky Broadband, Wired, Wireless, VoIP, 2 Macs, 2.5 Hackintoshes, 3.5 PCs, iPhone, OS X, Windows XP, Windows 7, Ubuntu.
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I can show that link around and hopefully get a few people registered, Ya never know it might help...