UK ISP BT Offers up to 76Mbps Superfast Broadband Boost for Free

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Grand Master

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Yes but surely

:) I just find it strange that the address search says not available, whilst a number search does, I entered my downstairs neighbours property number with the postcode and it said it wasnt available. See what I'm getting at, how can they say two different things for the same address?

Maybe the system is confused because the same address has two different providers, no idea, call them :)

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Maybe the system is confused because the same address has two different providers, no idea, call them :)

Just called them and got the same result, explained it was the same physical property but they just said the two websites are correct downstairs can get 34Mb I can only get 2Mb

Grand Master

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Just called them and got the same result, explained it was the same physical property but they just said the two websites are correct downstairs can get 34Mb I can only get 2Mb

Its got to be the fact you are with VM, they probably just look on the test site the same as you (One of those, "Have you turned it off and on again" lists)

My Infinity got the boost around 12:30am this morning

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Grand Master

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So why have BT been made to round it down to 76Mbps, rather than advertising the full 80Mbps?

Because above ^^^ shows you can clearly go over 76Mbps.

I'm not sure that screenshot is accurate, it seems only Chrome allows those speeds, all the rest of the browsers I have tried give around 74-75meg

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Does anyone know when this will be available to business users? :wub: the current service i'm getting from BT.

Depends on your area, june 16th here, and it will be ?5/month more than the current infinity price

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Wireless G is 54meg though, so the 20-30meg we are getting over wifi has a problem

Nope that about right for 802.11G

Max link rate is 54Mbit/s but there is a fair amount of overheads involved and the fact radio is unidirectional means the actuall throughput will be a lot less than the link rate.

It's possible to get 125Mbit/s + of throughput on 802.11N with the right configuration but it does depend largely on the hardware used and the drivers, not all 802.11N cards are created equal, theres MIMO and Spatial streams to consider.

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plusnet 38/9mb can be had for ?21.50/month with no need of a phone line: http://www.plus.net/fibre-broadband/broadband/

sky are doing 38/2mb for ?20/month + ?12.25 line rental + ?50 activation fee (new customers). Sky don't throttle torrents unlike bt and plusnet.

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Being stuck on 6/0.3 which is on a good day looks like Infinity is never coming here. Hohum, just signed up with Virgin so lets see how that goes.

I know what that feels like. This is exactly what we were on before Infinity got rolled out in the area a few months back. The download would vary between 3.5-7.5 and the max upload was 0.25.

We now have a very stable connection with constant 8 down and 0.3 up on ADSL.

Infinity will come to your area soon if Virgin are going in.

Grand Master

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Being stuck on 6/0.3 which is on a good day looks like Infinity is never coming here. Hohum, just signed up with Virgin so lets see how that goes.

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Did you remove the ring wire from the master socket if you are still on ADSL ?

I got about 2meg boost from doing that, my folks got about 3meg

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm

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I know what that feels like. This is exactly what we were on before Infinity got rolled out in the area a few months back. The download would vary between 3.5-7.5 and the max upload was 0.25.

We now have a very stable connection with constant 8 down and 0.3 up on ADSL.

Infinity will come to your area soon if Virgin are going in.

We don't have ADSL+ yet and only 300 people requested Infinity so may be a long wait :)

Did you remove the ring wire from the master socket if you are still on ADSL ?

I got about 2meg boost from doing that, my folks got about 3meg

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm

Yes rewired last year, seems despite the exchange being at the top of the road 6mb is my max and when it rains (crazy i know) lucky to get 2mb. It has gotten too painful to wait for BT.

Grand Master

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We don't have ADSL+ yet and only 300 people requested Infinity so may be a long wait :)

Yes rewired last year, seems despite the exchange being at the top of the road 6mb is my max and when it rains (crazy i know) lucky to get 2mb. It has gotten too painful to wait for BT.

Rain shouldn't affect a landline, there might be a split in the line somewhere shorting when it rains

Doesn't make sense otherwise, water must be getting to the wire

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Rain shouldn't affect a landline, there might be a split in the line somewhere shorting when it rains

Doesn't make sense otherwise, water must be getting to the wire

Yes, where the pipe with the cable comes to the wall looks like a fountain in heavy rain, gushes out the pipe about 3 feet high :)

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Daedroth

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BT appear to be falling into the same trap as Virgin. Upgrade existing fibre customers because it's cheaper than to lay new fibre. Meaning us stuck on <4MB standard broadband and can't get Virgin are screwed.

Grand Master

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Anyone had the speed upgrade done yet? Mine is supposed to be scheduled for today-not sure what time during the day...

I hit the upgrade button at 12:30am on the 13th, and at about 12:30am on the 14th I got my speed increase

Signed up on 12th April, still getting the same speed... (~14Mb, the BT site said after the upgrade I'd get ~49Mb).

Go hit the upgrade button, you signed up before the upgrade was active so you might need to hit the button

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