Switchover to BT infinity, and a Review of BT infinity.

A video explaining just how good BT infinity is compared to what I had before. I hopefully this video gives some good advice to people wanting to switch over to BT infinity.

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[propainish]

BT Infinity Option 2 has no capping whatsoever, I called up BT and they told me they scrapped the FUP for BT Infinity Option 2, you can download as much as you want without your speeds being reduced.

[NETrevgadget]

@propainish I think I covered that in the video, sorry if I didn't. My infinity option is the option 2 of course :)

[propainish]

@NETrevgadget in the first bit, you mentioned that fibre optic only goes to the green box and you still use the regular copper cable to connect to the green box, is the speed affected in anyway?

[NETrevgadget]

@propainish Theoretically it is, since the full potential of fibre optic cannot be achieved unless it is fibre optic to the user like in virgin media fibre optic broadband (hence their advertised speed is higher than that of BT infinity), but from my experience, my highest speed is 50Mbit/s which is much higher than the advertised, and my average download speed is around 40Mbit/s so it does not actually affect your connection that much.

[ranranbobandy]

Like all ISP's it's hit and miss, I'm with Virgin and swear by it. I get 30/31 mbps and I'm paying for 30 so I'm happy, always have been with Virgin. I only download about 30gb max movies, xbox demo's etc but game online everyday, but have never been capped. Virgin got voted by ofcom the only ISP to provide what they actually sell. BT and the others provide on average 50% of the speed they advertise.

[NETrevgadget]

@ranranbobandy I agree. My family has been with virgin for at least 8-9 years, but the recent years they just have not been doing good enough. Though, some of my friends with virgin have never had a problem.

[connormill]

Virgin is NOT fibre optic to the house!

Virgin and BT Infinity are very simmilar, they both run a fibre cable to a local cabinet and then its copper (Virgin - Coax / BT - Twisted Pair) to your home

[editexel]

I've been living on 0.98 down ,0.08 up and 238ms ping for 5 months, getting BT Infinity in 10 days I hope it's gonna be worth it.

[Phen0mable]

You sems to be a good guy but you are very naive as well. If I were you I wudnt be do hasty with that opinion and sayig bt infinity is doing greate job. The truth is that all services in the uk are shit. Especialy call centres.

[TTExTeCniQuEz]

did u move house aswell . or first speed test not yours. first u live in manchester then u live in maidenhead

[ugforthewin]

Infinity!!!!!!!!!!!!111

[DauntlessEagle1]

Well im still on 2 meg so think yourself lucky ! lol

[MiXeDGaMeR1]

i got internet a few years back proabably 4 when 8MB net came out i bough it for £7.50 and i get around 9MB :D

[samisamazinglygood]

I'm getting this on the 7th, I hope it's as good as it looks.

[MonsterPenguin1337]

@billybob3856 Thats Terrible 40mb - 120mb is good in britain

[SlashDotDashDotGash]

I have recently checked with BT over there "Unlimited" Option 2 however in this day & age unlimited just don't exist.

Firstly when i rang they said the same as they did to you that it was unlimited but upon checking further with more staff (I know people who work there i dont just keep ringing BT lol) they advised me your speeds will be capped after 300GB per month, admittedly thats a lot of downloading but its not Unlimited like they constantly state.