Advice on changing ISP please

I am currently on the O2 All Rounder package (12 month contract): <20Mb broadband + anytime calls + line rental = £31. I am now out of contract.

I have been looking at BT Infinity, which for a similar package, comes in approx. the same cost, but <38Mb and an 18 month contract. Also, I could get £80 on TopCashback.

Is this a good choice and would I get an appreciable increase in speed or would you recommend alternatives?

According to a speed test I just did, I get: 11.16Mb download and 1.08Mb upload.
My exchange is: EABRW.

Thanks in advance.

In reply to a post by robl2608:

I have been looking at BT Infinity, which for a similar package, comes in approx. the same cost, but <38Mb and an 18 month contract. Also, I could get £80 on TopCashback.

I was out of contract The All Rounder as below, and enquired with o2 about the special offers and they offered this;
My package The All Rounder
Full monthly charge £ 28.00 Line rental included
Monthly charge including offers £ 16.75
Contract 12 months 20Mb broadband + weekend calls + line rental
15.19Mb download and 1.16Mb upload.

I don't need hyper download or upload speed for what I do on the internet (no games, no p2p etc) so I was happy to accept the offer!

For yourself, you have to evaluate if you need 38Mb download and the extra cost and aggrevation of the change over!

Hi,
Will you post your current router line stats the link below will help.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php

The info from them will be handy.

Mac

In reply to a post by robl2608:

I am currently on the O2 All Rounder package (12 month contract): <20Mb broadband + anytime calls + line rental = £31. I am now out of contract.

I have been looking at BT Infinity, which for a similar package, comes in approx. the same cost, but <38Mb and an 18 month contract. Also, I could get £80 on TopCashback.

Is this a good choice and would I get an appreciable increase in speed or would you recommend alternatives?

According to a speed test I just did, I get: 11.16Mb download and 1.08Mb upload.
My exchange is: EABRW.

Thanks in advance.

Isn't that a 40GB allowance package?

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Hi,
Will you post your current router line stats the link below will help.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php

The info from them will be handy.

Mac

What for? They are dependent on distance from the exchange, and Infinity isn't.

In reply to a post by robl2608:

I have been looking at BT Infinity .... Is this a good choice and would I get an appreciable increase in speed or would you recommend alternatives?

According to a speed test I just did, I get: 11.16Mb download and 1.08Mb upload.
My exchange is: EABRW.

Have you checked your phone number in this checker? A lot of areas on that exchange weren't scheduled (in the Dec 2011 data) for FTTC, which means no Infinity.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Hi,
Will you post your current router line stats the link below will help.

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php

The info from them will be handy.

Mac

What for? They are dependent on distance from the exchange, and Infinity isn't.

True if you are concentrating only on a fibre connection but the OP did say

or would you recommend alternatives?

rightly or wrongly I thought the OP didn't mean he/she was only interested in a fibre connection.

Mac

'Doh .

Yes it is a 40GB package.

My stats are (not that I know what they mean):

Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1.334 / 15.670

Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [GB/GB]: 2,39 / 2,01

Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12,1 / 18,5

Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 12,8 / 23,5

SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 6,6 / 6,1

FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 133.988

CRC Errors (Up/Down): 1.659 / 97

HEC Errors (Up/Down): 1.319 / 79


Thanks, Rob.

RobertoS

The BT website suggested I could receive Infinty and I used the (BT Wholesale) checker you suggested and amongst other provision it specified:

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 72.3Mbps and upstream line speed of 20Mbps.

Thanks, Rob.

Ummmm .

The Anonymous poster I chunnered at has brought up something interesting. There is something a bit wrong in those stats, as on an attenuation of 23.5dB the average connection speed, (bandwidth in those stats), is well over 16Mbps, and I would expect to see over 18Mbps.

Everything else looks normal.

Have a browse through my Troubleshooting section, ignoring the High noise margin, Odd speed test results and Router acting oddly pages. See if anything strikes you.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a fibre technology with an estimated WBC FTTC Broadband where consumers have received downstream line speed of 72.3Mbps and upstream line speed of 20Mbps.

So yes, you can order, and yes, you are going to receive much faster speeds, looks like you are very close to your cabinet. Happy days.

That's brilliant Rob. Given that on an 80/20 product it is forecasting almost full speed, on the one you are looking at 40/10 connection speeds will be rock solid. That gives IP Profiles of 38.72/10Mbps.

Still see if you can see anything in my Troubleshooting stuff, even though an FTTC connection would probably eliminate the problem. You never know.