PieFacE Posted June 5, 2012 VT Supporter Share Posted June 5, 2012 Sky are releasing a 40MB BB, worth an ask if they do it in your area? Yep, it's just BT Fibre but they re-sell it under Sky's name. I have recently had a free upgrade to 80MB and it's fantastic. Can't fault Fibre at all. BT have done well with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NICKTHEFISH Posted June 6, 2012 Share Posted June 6, 2012 BT Infininty is fibre ran from the Exchange to the green junction box, then connected to your existing copper wiring that runs underground to your house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDon Posted June 7, 2012 Share Posted June 7, 2012 BT Infininty is fibre ran from the Exchange to the green junction box, then connected to your existing copper wiring that runs underground to your house. That depends. There's 2 flavours, FTTC, which is as you describe, and FTTP, which is fibre all the way. Most places will get FTTC, some with get FTTP, and they're soon to be rolling out "on demand" FTTP, where you get to pay a nice high installation fee to get FTTP in any BT Infinity area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted June 8, 2012 Author VT Supporter Share Posted June 8, 2012 I'm still bitter when I read this thread. :@ They need to upgrade the Sheldon exchange pronto Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted July 17, 2013 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 17, 2013 Fibre coming our way by September 2013!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) I decided to upgrade earlier this week. Not too impressed by the upload, but, damn, that download. I was tempted by BT Infinity. The upload is better, and while the download is slower, they don't cut it in half if you dare actually use it in peak hours, but the £130 to reactivate a phone line takes the piss. Edited July 17, 2013 by Davkaus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted July 17, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted July 17, 2013 (edited) I went with Talktalk. I was already a customer and they have no traffic shaping/capping whatsoever. Also the clincher for me is that it's a totally rock solid service and it came with a new and better router. It means that I can game online without worrying about being disconnected. It also means I can watch streams without them constantly buffering. Unless it's an England match on ITV of course. Edited July 17, 2013 by Anthony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b23avfc Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 That talktalk upload looks handy. I'm still on Virgin but lately the service, specifically the router I think, is shoddy. At least 5 times a day I have to reset the stupid superhub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted July 17, 2013 Share Posted July 17, 2013 Virgin Media Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted July 18, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2013 Ha. I'm on Sky Broadband. I scrape 9 mb/s if I'm lucky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted July 18, 2013 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2013 Don't Virgin throttle the shit out of you? I'm sticking with Sky when I can get fibre, had no problems with my normal connection and it's all unlimited with no slow downs, and it's one of the cheapest Question, can I expect my torrents to download quicker on fibre, or is it all about how much others are uploading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dudevillaisnice Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 but the £130 to reactivate a phone line takes the piss. Very surprised by this, have you tried enquring directly to them? They will/should do it for free. You shouldn't need to pay £130 to reactivate if you take their fibre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Don't Virgin throttle the shit out of you? Virgin do, indeed throttle the shit out of you. If you download more than 6GB in peak hours (and during the weekend, their peak hours are 12 **** hours. Seriously), they reduce my speed by 40% for 2 hours, I think it is. I just assume my actual speed is 60mb, except for the 10 minutes I get to download at 100mb for... Very surprised by this, have you tried enquring directly to them? They will/should do it for free. You shouldn't need to pay £130 to reactivate if you take their fibre. I spoke to one of their fairly abrupt and unhelpful customer disservice reps. I'm not sure I mentioned Infinity to be honest, I just mentioned I was interested in getting one of their internet packages when they quoted the £130. I didn't really try to haggle with them, I was kind of taken aback and just said no thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villarule123 Posted July 18, 2013 Author VT Supporter Share Posted July 18, 2013 (edited) Looks like I'm gonna get Sky Fibre then. I've been with Sky (mostly TV) for about 6 years and to be fair I can't fault them at all. They cave in every time I want half price for a year, have pretty good pundits on the sports that I watch (football, cricket etc). It's just a shame that clearing in the woods Murdoch is reaping all the profits. Edited July 18, 2013 by villarule123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 I'll just leave this here.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 18, 2013 Share Posted July 18, 2013 Looks like I'm gonna get Sky Fibre then. I've been with Sky (mostly TV) for about 6 years and to be fair I can't fault them at all. They cave in every time I want half price for a year, have pretty good pundits on the sports that I watch (football, cricket etc). It's just a shame that clearing in the woods Murdoch is reaping all the profits. I wouldn't touch Sky. They're gonna be traffic managing soon if they're not already and you will notice poor performance at peak times. I have 80Mb BT Infinity and I haven't noticed any slower speeds at any time (after the first vDSL sync) and there's no problem with my 300GB/month bandwidth usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted July 24, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted July 24, 2013 I'll just leave this here.. Holy shit. Which ISP is that? Photoshop? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrenm Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I'll just leave this here.. Holy shit. Which ISP is that? Photoshop? 100% real and it's my feed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
limpid Posted July 24, 2013 Administrator Share Posted July 24, 2013 I think I have (one of) the same ISPs at work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony Posted July 25, 2013 VT Supporter Share Posted July 25, 2013 Which ISP? I take it it's fibre to the premises? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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