Apparently they have some "cheaper to them" connection for actually feeding stuff to you, as opposed to the standard WBC link from your exchange to them.

See this post, (once you realise "by" means "buy"), Central Pluses being the reason BT latency was so good.

As for becoming a statistic, from what I see on these forums there seem to be no real problems with Infinity.

Neither your post nor New_Londoner's gives any reason whatsoever for recommending against it.

Edited by RobertoS (Fri 21-Jan-11 17:40:47)

Have always been with BT sometimes getting the right person to deal with a problem takes time, but so far have always managed to resolve any problems and been compensated for problems and missed dates.

Since being on fibre no problems actual speed exceeds predicted speed 95% of the time.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

There must be a reason that they are cheapest.

Realistically, BT are making no money off Infinity at this stage. With free installs, free hub/modem and the cheap monthly price it's just a business decision to get as many of the early adopters on board ASAP before the other ISPs get their houses in order. Couple it with the costs of the actual fibre infrastructure and you can see they're not going to be turning a profit on FTTC for a while. Obviously BT has the resources to absorb this in a way most other providers/ISPs do not.

Bad points:

- Traffic shaping
- Homehub
- Long contract
- Unrealistic usage allowance
- Under-priced

I would not use the term cheaper to them.

Just that by use of traffic management, BT Retail can reduce the amount of actual internet access capacity it buys.

Thanks for the clarification.

It seems I misunderstood your original post, but I read it as being that they put data out not through the nodes. Maybe it was the reference to Central Plus that helped confuse me. Because that was a different system to Centrals you made me think they are also using some different system for Infinity output to what the other BTW ISPs use, but still incoming from the users via the nodes.

If you just meant the traffic management I would have expected that to be what you said .

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Bad points:

- Traffic shaping
- Homehub
- Long contract
- Unrealistic usage allowance
- Under-priced

But he is using it, and happy. Are you, and if not which other FTTC supplier?

The question is, how long will BT Infinity last before it goes downhill? I believe they're offering rock bottom prices to attract ignorant consumers.

We have FTTC with Zen (40Mb/s 24/7 regardless of protocol) as we refuse to be duped by BT.

Fine, that's your choice.

My cabinet having been enabled in the last couple of days I am seriously considering Infinity.

I find it difficult to justify the extra expenditure over my existing O2 LLU £7.50 - £2.50 retention deal, but the main problems with BT Wholesale ADSLx products of the aggressive noise margin and profiling regime seem to have been sorted in the FTTC one, (you tell me what you have found ), and Infinity traffic management or even congestion will almost certainly not impinge significantly on my usage.

Of course the prices are predatory. I don't imagine they will significantly up them for existing customers in the next 18 months, and if they do then the contract can be escaped from without penalty.

So New_Londoner is happy with his choice, you are happy with yours, and I feel I have applied logical thought to my own options.

You don't provide useful information to the poster expipexer to help him make an informed decision. Just cliches.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

You don't provide useful information to the poster expipexer to help him make an informed decision. Just cliches.

e.g. "- Under-priced"