Clearly punters paying well over the odds are embarrassed to tell us how much they are paying over the odds so punters can make like for like comparisons on what gives best bang for buck over the 12 and 18 month contracts.

My final thoughts reinforced on this post.

BT Infinity is the best deal on FTTC out there. Sky and TalkTalk will come and Virgin are already there. Down the road these guys will be the most competitive. Right now BT are ahead with a compelling offering.

Small providers offer less usage for more money and will remain small. Very small referral agents will market on the forums. There is room for them. Punters on them will try to justify why they are paying over the odds with ever increasingly obscure reasons.

In reply to a post by RandomJointer:

Small providers offer less usage for more money and will remain small.

Of course they will, and I've already answered the question as to why their prices have to be high- they need to make a profit on top of what BT charge them.

You, on the other hand, haven't answered a single question that you've been asked.

You, on the other hand, haven't answered a single question that you've been asked.

That's because when something sounds too good to be true?

In reply to a post by RandomJointer:

The logical outcome is that Infinity hoover up the punters whilst Sky and TalkTalk dither and Virgin compete.

There will always be room for small high priced providers but they will remain small high priced providers.

hoovering punters up doesnt mean much if there is no profit tho. Price is too low to be viable long term. If you say no problem the price will go up later, then these same punters could well leave.

Also many LLU areas arent even getting FTTC, so sky arent suddenly going to lose customers everywhere, FTTC rollout so far is missing lots of LLU areas and enabling some non LLU areas. So is not a full overlap.

Small providers offer less usage for more money and will remain small

no harm in that, we like our one shop local butcher the meat's better.

Does BT infinity meter uploads ?

In reply to a post by yarwell:

Does BT infinity meter uploads ?

Yes:

The total amount of data you send and receive each month is your total monthly usage

My bold.

Uploading at 8mbps constantly would come to 2.5TB/month so quite alot over the 300GB limit BT have for uploads and downloads.

I just chose 8mbps as it's 10mbps minus the 2mbps BT still allow you after 300GB.

An upload speed of 8Mbps is about what you'll get on a 10Mbps connection.

The Infinity base packages are only 2Mbps upload in the first place, so 24/7 uploading will still take you over the 300GB limit.

Hi Bill,

Forgot it doesn't actually run at 10mbps, I was just making a quick comparison for people who do alot of uploading as it's mostly not metered on ADSL connections (BT being the notable exception).

there's a lot of upstream metering about, beware with generalisations !