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Originally Posted by General Maximus
he doesn't mean overlap as in interfere with one another, he means they can run simultaneously/alongside one another. They are completely different types of cable running to different street cabinets which won't be close to each other. The coax from VM will run under ground and your phone line for the Infinity will run over head on a pole. The only common point of intersection is your house so unless someone blows your house up you should never suffer from a loss of both services. Sometimes somebody (council/water board etc) digs up the road and cuts through a VM pipe by accident which will knock out your connection but it won't affect BT and likewise if there is a storm and a phone pole gets blown over it won't affect your VM connection.
I strongly recommend VM over BT. With VM there are no distance based speed restrictions so as long as you are in a cabled area the max speed available to your area (e.g. 200mbits) is what you will get. In contrast, BT/Openreach providers advertise e.g. 76mbits on Infinity 2 but it is all based on the distance to your local cabinet and as an example for me, the most I can get is 53mbits which pales in comparison to the 378 I get from VM.
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This is all depends on your area. I'm fortunate enough to live in a area with both and close enough to cabinet for top sync.
Our 350 has several months out of the year where peak times it performs bad for even downloading just depends on the area. It's not quite as bad for congestion as it used to be back in Telewest days where congestion was never fixed but our headend has never been the best for performance.
The FTTC line from AAISP through BT's cabinet performs better for gaming not by just a slight amount but by a hell of a lot.