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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Auto Addict on 01 March 2013, 08:06:47
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Am I right in saying, apart from mega download speeds, it makes no difference to WiFi speeds.
Only hardwired devices would benefit?
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BT Infinity is the speed that enters and exits the house, its a product name for the speeds you can get. Its not related to WiFi, that is determined by your WiFi Router.
Standard old "G" spec are 54 Mbps, newer N rated ones are 300 Mbps. But in reality they rarely achieve this in the real world, from my experience.
If you want high speed, you want to go cabled. :y
Infinity is also about capacity, rather than out right surfing speed, you can stream iPlayer in HD. Download on SkyGo, surf the web and do that Windows update all at the same time.
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BT Infinity is the speed that enters and exits the house, its a product name for the speeds you can get. Its not related to WiFi, that is determined by your WiFi Router.
Standard old "G" spec are 54 Mbps, newer N rated ones are 300 Mbps. But in reality they rarely achieve this in the real world, from my experience.
If you want high speed, you want to go cabled. :y
Infinity is also about capacity, rather than out right surfing speed, you can stream iPlayer in HD. Download on SkyGo, surf the web and do that Windows update all at the same time.
Thought as much, not worth the extra £'s for me then, won't be going down that route ;)
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BT Infinity is the speed that enters and exits the house, its a product name for the speeds you can get. Its not related to WiFi, that is determined by your WiFi Router.
Standard old "G" spec are 54 Mbps, newer N rated ones are 300 Mbps. But in reality they rarely achieve this in the real world, from my experience.
If you want high speed, you want to go cabled. :y
Infinity is also about capacity, rather than out right surfing speed, you can stream iPlayer in HD. Download on SkyGo, surf the web and do that Windows update all at the same time.
Thought as much, not worth the extra £'s for me then, won't be going down that route ;)
All comes down to what you actually do on your connection?
At a guess 99% general browsing, other 1% upgrades to software like tablets/windows?
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If you have teenagers in the house it is def worth it :y If no kids probably not.
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BT Infinity is the speed that enters and exits the house, its a product name for the speeds you can get. Its not related to WiFi, that is determined by your WiFi Router.
Standard old "G" spec are 54 Mbps, newer N rated ones are 300 Mbps. But in reality they rarely achieve this in the real world, from my experience.
If you want high speed, you want to go cabled. :y
Infinity is also about capacity, rather than out right surfing speed, you can stream iPlayer in HD. Download on SkyGo, surf the web and do that Windows update all at the same time.
Thought as much, not worth the extra £'s for me then, won't be going down that route ;)
All comes down to what you actually do on your connection?
At a guess 99% general browsing, other 1% upgrades to software like tablets/windows?
Correct :y
On talking to BT, I believe I would get a more stable connection, Tesco, which I've had for 2 years now is rubbish.
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In our experience for home standard use, the connections are rock solid :y
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In our experience for home standard use, the connections are rock solid :y
About to place an order :y
Thanks for the advice :y
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I've just binned BT because I was sick of talking to a foriegn person when I had a problem, i'm now with Plusnet who I believe are BT with a Yorkshire accent so just as difficult to understand ;D
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the claimed download speeds are never correct.. they are instantaneous and depends on the hourly network traffic.. and if the requested server is busy your flying network cant do anything..
so your requested data will hardly exceed the 54 mpbs rate unless there are several users on your wifi or
distance too far or there is interference..
however I always prefer cable connection as there is no interference problem.. and my wifi generally is in use by my neighbour :-\ ( I use their parking place ;D )
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the claimed download speeds are never correct.. they are instantaneous and depends on the hourly network traffic.. and if the requested server is busy your flying network cant do anything..
so your requested data will hardly exceed the 54 mpbs rate unless there are several users on your wifi or
distance too far or there is interference..
however I always prefer cable connection as there is no interference problem.. and my wifi generally is in use by my neighbour :-\ ( I use their parking place ;D )
;D
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Why G wifi devices have around 20Mbps throughput. Both of my FTTC lines, a Zen Fibre one and a BT Infinity for Business one, have far more throughput than that . So wifi is the bottleneck.
The big advantages are upload speed, making cloud based services viable, and stability, as my line length is now 200m rather than 1500m. Also, I player streaming doesn't buffer when people are caning OOF ;D
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Cem - I get pretty much the speeds they estimated I would get :)
Can get a good upload speedtest on the zen line because it always has lots of traffic for some reason ::)
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Why G wifi devices have around 20Mbps throughput. Both of my FTTC lines, a Zen Fibre one and a BT Infinity for Business one, have far more throughput than that . So wifi is the bottleneck.
The big advantages are upload speed, making cloud based services viable, and stability, as my line length is now 200m rather than 1500m. Also, I player streaming doesn't buffer when people are caning OOF ;D
when you are in server room ;D
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Cem - I get pretty much the speeds they estimated I would get :)
Can get a good upload speedtest on the zen line because it always has lots of traffic for some reason ::)
just on the test.. not in real life.. try to access a server outside UK , say in east europe or latin america , you wont :y even if all network is brand new model, shiny and empty the server state can change the picture..
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I did a speed test a few times recently, and I am getting 37.38mb out of the possible 40mb.
Using infinity doesn't seem to make any difference to normal surfing etc. However, when downloading, I can get gigabytes of downloading in minutes. However, it must be remembered that a lot of servers are limited as to download speed, so even if you can download at mega speed, if the server is locked at, say, 54kb's, thats all you will get. Thats a common thing, sites trying to get you to open accounts, to get full access speed.
My main reason for getting infinity, was they offered it me for a cheaper price than the 8mb they were supplying. Work that out !!!! I am on the full contract price, as an existing customer, I did not get the 'free for 3 months' stuff. But £18 a month was good enough for me for 37.38 mb :y
I have two laptops and another desktop computer in the house, and they all connect wirelessly to my BT hub, and still have the same speed as this computer, which is hardwired :y
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Cem - I get pretty much the speeds they estimated I would get :)
Can get a good upload speedtest on the zen line because it always has lots of traffic for some reason ::)
just on the test.. not in real life.. try to access a server outside UK , say in east europe or latin america , you wont :y even if all network is brand new model, shiny and empty the server state can change the picture..
I can saturate my link (100Mbit down, 10Mbit up) with a number of servers in the US ;) Though for a lot of sites you'd be right, 40-50Mbit is about as much as you get unless it's a big site.
Still can't fix the latency to the west coast though.. damn that speed of light constant ;D
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Still can't fix the latency to the west coast though.. damn that speed of light constant ;D
..and TCP congestion control algorithms from the 1970's. ;)