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ccarmock · 21-08-2010, 22:35

Will be interesting to see just what BT Infinity really offers though. It's due to be available in my area on 30th September. Due to distance from the exchange I used to get a maximum of 3 Mb/s with ADSL, despite the BT checker claiming 4.5 Mb/s should be possible.

The BT infinity checker claims I should be able to get a download speed of 15.7 Mb/s and an upload speed of 7.1 Mb/s. Seems a bit lower than I'd hoped, especially since the new FTTC box for BT is about 200m away, and is next to the one I know my BT line passes through as it was pointed out to me by a BT engineer when I had a line fault.

So I for one won't be moving away from Virgin. For me their 10 Mb/s business sevrices has been very good. Though the service is startign to look dated with 768 Kb/s upload. I am hopeful they will revise this in the later uarter of this year when they offer the 50 Mb/s business service and fixed IP option onthe 20 Mb/s service.

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ccarmock Inactive Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 804	Re: BT is faster than Virginmedia Broadband Will be interesting to see just what BT Infinity really offers though. It's due to be available in my area on 30th September. Due to distance from the exchange I used to get a maximum of 3 Mb/s with ADSL, despite the BT checker claiming 4.5 Mb/s should be possible. The BT infinity checker claims I should be able to get a download speed of 15.7 Mb/s and an upload speed of 7.1 Mb/s. Seems a bit lower than I'd hoped, especially since the new FTTC box for BT is about 200m away, and is next to the one I know my BT line passes through as it was pointed out to me by a BT engineer when I had a line fault. So I for one won't be moving away from Virgin. For me their 10 Mb/s business sevrices has been very good. Though the service is startign to look dated with 768 Kb/s upload. I am hopeful they will revise this in the later uarter of this year when they offer the 50 Mb/s business service and fixed IP option onthe 20 Mb/s service.