In reply to a post by RobertoS:

For starters, all Sky unlimited and Be unlimited heavy downloading customers who can get Infinity will have moved to it.

You know this how? if so thank god. Less to clog up.

Those Be and Sky customers who already get 15 to 20 Mbps will probably be thinking twice, certainly have seen a fair few not sure about the move.

Those most likely to move are those with a speed of under 5 Meg, i.e. not enough to easily stream decent HD material.
Also with Sky there is AnyTime+ which people would lose, as an incentive to remain.

In reply to a post by BusError:

No, why should I ? My IP "profile" has nothing to do with local congestion.

It could show if the speedtest.net you tried was congested.

In reply to a post by BusError:

No, why should I ? My IP "profile" has nothing to do with local congestion.

Bt still use the profiling system on FTTC? for goodness sake.



Bt may get something right one day, just not seen it yet

In reply to a post by zyborg47:

Bt still use the profiling system on FTTC? for goodness sake.

It's a new one, Openreach not Wholesale, and it's fine. Sets pretty well immediately after a sync to about 88% of the sync.

The Wholesale one on most, or perhaps all, WBC-enabled exchanges now does the same, and that too is fine.

They have got the IP Profiling right at last.

Don't forget that the benchmark has always been Be/O2, where the best you get on a speed test is around 84% of sync. On BT FTTC higher than that should be attainable, but I haven't checked posted stats to check.

It was not. I tried all the ones I usually try, including on the continent.

In all your replies, you seem to imply that 1) I don't know what I'm talking about and 2) that "something else" was involved.

There was not, it was pure and simple congestion, and very bad one too.

I also could not find any brilliant technical insight in your various patronizing comments, it's usually a prerequisite, when trying that out...

In reply to a post by BusError:

It was not. I tried all the ones I usually try, including on the continent.

In all your replies, you seem to imply that 1) I don't know what I'm talking about and 2) that "something else" was involved.

Impossible to say, given you only reported the problem after it went away. If you'd posted at the time, someone else could have checked to see if they had similar problems or not.

Noise, this just shows your usual ignorance of the subject. Try and think in future before you go into knee jerk BT bashing mode.

For your info I've been on BT Infinity for a couple of months now and I'm very pleased with it.

I agree with Andrew .. it's those who are going to get a goog uplift in their speeds who will move.

Those who are close enough to an exchange to be getting 15-20 megs anyway are not going to get much improvment by moving - and will cost them more as well - I know a number of people who get 18 megs anyway, and are not going to move.

Also, those SKY people with Anytime+ may well not want to lose that.

And, to also chip in on the original thread theme ... just after my switch to Infinity I also saw major congestion - downloads were around 4 megs and uploads at 6megs!

That has all stopped now, and everything runs just great. And compared to my 135k-160k from Orange, and aroun 3 megs from O2 - 37.5Megs is quite an improvment, without having to do anything else but switch! A simple no-brainer for me - and also, I have found the HH3 an interesting device.

Cheers

Rob

Quite frankly, this is beyond joke. It's so bad right now I can barely browse on eBay, let alone watch a video on iplayer.

2.76 down, 6.47 up :
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1633717748.png
0.72 down, 7.48 up (124ms ping]
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1633721087.png
23 down, 2 up (gloucester, wow, speeeeedy!)
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1633722521.png

Another try on london,
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1633725339.png