Is an upgrade to BT Infinity worthwhile?

If you are satisfied with 10mbs,  why change is you don't want sport & the other stuff

A BT guy told me my village is last on the Infinity priority list 'cause we get around 12mbs on average & the difference is hardly noticeable unless you need sport - I get >12mbs.  

My son went Infinity & he was previously on 8mbs,  he only noticed the difference with video streaming & downloading times.

Reading BT forum on HH4 v HH5,  it seems the jury is split. 

HH5 is as good as the HH4 IMO, it has modem built in so saves 1 mains socket therefore removes one "walmart" type PSU.

I use it straight into an 8 way switch.

I get 26.5 D/L and 5.5 U/L about 1 km from cab.

This is a bit of a statement of the bleeding obvious, but if you want or need a better router, buy one.  £20 a month just for the router is a very expensive way of buying one that.

If all your stuff works well and is stable then you are in a happy place, and I would follow the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" principle. 

Thanks all

Helpful advice - I will stay with HH4 and standard broadband for now and if/when I need faster download speeds will try and negotiate a better deal off BT or an alternative provider.

Bob

We were getting 14mbs and now get 78mbs with infinity. If I'm honest, the most notable change was when we went from 1mbs to 14mbs. We still have issues connecting the Youview box to the service and I suspect that is the equipment more than the infinity as an iPad air is really quick. I recently downloaded the Yosemite update for MAC and that took ages. My MacAir and my wife Samsung laptop are no quicker than they were. To cap it all it actually took BT ages to sort out issues with the system as well. I managed to complain at quite a high level and even then they had issues getting everything sorted. I think had I known what was going to happen when placing the order, I may not have done, as the benefits do not seem huge over what we had.

I had BT Infinity with download speeds of 38mbs, which was great and I was very happy with it, but I didn't use it. I don't play games or watch the sport...and it cost me £20 a month! I changed to Sky normal broadband and am getting 18mbs on a good day, and 15mbs on a bad one! For Free!

Originally, I was under the impression, that you had to have fast broadband to stream your music, but apparently that is not the case. Another reason why I chose Sky, was their UK call centres.

For me, before Infinity, I was with BT anyway and was getting a variable ca. 3mbps as I live in a small village.

Still didnt really affect me with music streaming, but BBC iPlayer or Film streaming, especially HD, was never guaranteed without buffering or losing connection.

When I heard they had upgraded at the cabinet in the village I made a call to enquire regarding costs to upgrade to fibre optic.

The very helpful lady entered it all into her computer and she confirmed that I could switch over for no additional cost!

(dont know why it was no additional cost, but I was already paying for Option 2, 40MB / month limit)

I wasnt going to pay an arm and a leg for it and would have considered it for a small uplift to ease my film/iPlayer streaming woes..

For no uplift in price though it was a no-brainer!

Now im getting a regular 38mbps and dont have any issues with hi-res music / iPlayer / Film streaming 

When I get round to it, the main advantage for me will be uploading photographs, especially now I've massive files from my 5D3 to send. I'll rocket from 0.35 upload to at least 10mb/sec.  

Thanks for further helpful replies. Chris you got a good deal there and if I would upgrade on those terms. Otherwise I will wait until I need more download speed if/when I start to download films and HD tracks.

Bob