Optical Broadband Upgrade.
Posted by: George J on 24 June 2014
I have been offered a free upgrade to optical [with a very much faster speed than the wired version] broadband, and have accepted. The engineer is installing the new internal terminal later in July.
All I want is a stable broadband with no dropouts for internet radio, so the system will be massively over-specified, but it is gratis, so why not? Otherwise my payments remain the same as I am well out of my initial contractual period ...
ATB from George
Great stuff George.. from what I hear you are not alone, many on the BT Infinity product very much enjoy their service.
Just waiting for my EU authorisation for national government funding the Suffolk not spots to be approved so I can hopefully get Superfast in my village. Good news is BT has been testing a low density remote distribution system for rural FTTC... fingers crossed.
Simon
Took only minutes to fit a new socket with integral filter.
After half an hour to let it settle the download speed is 73.7 MBS, and upload is 9.2 MBS.
Amazing!
....
ATB from George
Reading round a bit, it seems that the download speed cannot exceed 76 MBS, so there is not much optimising to do!
I don't know what the top upload speed is. Hopefully this will give a solid send for Skype, which I have never had before.
I did run some tests just now, and the download speed was at 72 MBS, by then, but this is so fast that it hardly matters.
Dear Simon,
I hope you get a high speed BB in your area before long.
My manager at work is green with envy, because his BB is like a snail apparently, even though he only lives three miles from Worcester.
ATB from George
Took only minutes to fit a new socket with integral filter.
After half an hour to let it settle the download speed is 73.7 MBS, and upload is 9.2 MBS.
Amazing!
....
ATB from George
Reading round a bit, it seems that the download speed cannot exceed 76 MBS, so there is not much optimising to do!
I don't know what the top upload speed is. Hopefully this will give a solid send for Skype, which I have never had before.
I did run some tests just now, and the download speed was at 72 MBS, by then, but this is so fast that it hardly matters.
Dear Simon,
I hope you get a high speed BB in your area before long.
My manager at work is green with envy, because his BB is like a snail apparently, even though he only lives three miles from Worcester.
ATB from George
Hi George, I have had BT FTTC for some 18 months and get between 70-72 MBS download and 16-18 MBS on upload, so you may see some improvement on the latter over the next few days.
The speed settles to its optimum over a week as the exchange and your hub/modem optimises for the most reliable speed on your line (so I would advise leaving the modem/hub switched on during this period).
The link in my earlier post will enable you to see the maximum possible speed vs what you are actually getting (the test needs I be done with a wired connection to be accurate).
Enjoy
Jude
Dear Jude,
I used you link for a speed tester. The upload is now 17.31 Mb/s [from 9], while the download has not altered significantly to 73.40.
Later I'll set Skype up again on my ancient little old Sony Vaio that has Linux on it.
I suppose it would seem obvious that I would be very happy with BT for offering this change for no extra charge and keeping me on my old wired BB tariff, but I also found their communications to be first rate, and when they found a fault with the wire from the cabinet to my house that was fixed very fast over the weekend.
I think BT is doing very well in their service. Very different from the days of the GPO, when getting anything done sometimes took weeks.
ATB from George
Enjoy
J
A few months ago I had the most awful experience with BT. I won't go into details ( it'd take too long) but suffice to say I was consistently lied to, ignored, and treated abominably , and I wouldn't touch them again under ANY circumstances!
Dear Jude,
I used you link for a speed tester. The upload is now 17.31 Mb/s [from 9], while the download has not altered significantly to 73.40.
Later I'll set Skype up again on my ancient little old Sony Vaio that has Linux on it.
I suppose it would seem obvious that I would be very happy with BT for offering this change for no extra charge and keeping me on my old wired BB tariff, but I also found their communications to be first rate, and when they found a fault with the wire from the cabinet to my house that was fixed very fast over the weekend.
I think BT is doing very well in their service. Very different from the days of the GPO, when getting anything done sometimes took weeks.
ATB from George
Those are very fast speeds George. Lucky man.
I think it has stabilised by now.
Upload: 73.44MB/s
Download: 17.11MB/s
In the last 24 hours no check has produced slower than 73 for download or 17 for upload, which is far better than the average for even my immediate neighbouring postcodes.
That means my upload speed is actually faster than my previous download speed, which is pretty amazing. It is twice the average for my locality.
The reality is that is far faster than I'll ever utilise!
ATB from George