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AMH · January 27, 2012, 11:36:06 AM

Interesting - got a letter this morning from BT. To \'maintain quality of service\' they are swapping all their Infinity routers - obviously worked out at last how pants they are.

Grant Monkhouse · January 27, 2012, 11:58:32 AM

What are the upload speed of the BT infinity? I get 4.5 meg with virgin. Super fast!!

AMH · January 27, 2012, 02:19:30 PM

Currently coming up as this:

There was a thread about this somewhere SeanP had a really good speed if I remember and someone on Virgin had more than double what I was getting!

a.tapos · January 27, 2012, 02:25:55 PM

i have all 3 with sky and its faultless,always found virgin great with everything except media.

BlitzBoy · January 27, 2012, 03:27:14 PM

fil_auto · January 27, 2012, 03:31:22 PM

F*** me, very impressive upload there Blitzen

BlitzBoy · January 27, 2012, 03:36:20 PM

well I am cheating , its the BT connection at work lol

dthebuk · January 27, 2012, 06:22:15 PM

Quote from: AMH;809132Infinity router is pants - we got a Netgear one and it\'s fine now. Got four spare BT hubs if anyone wants one! :Giggle

does you\'re netgear aloow the same speed over wireless as with a cable?

AMH · January 27, 2012, 06:54:07 PM

Quote from: dthebuk;809817does you\'re netgear aloow the same speed over wireless as with a cable?

Yes I believe so - the speed test I posted is wireless.

Ricco_04 · January 27, 2012, 11:19:31 PM

Well virgin have just upgraded all 10mb broadband to 20mb broadband - I guess could this put strain on the network?

Rivalrx · January 29, 2012, 02:33:12 PM

2 weeks no internet north london...virgin suck.

rote8 · January 29, 2012, 06:27:03 PM

I hope everyone with BT Infinity realise that you are also a WiFi access point for anyone and everyone in the vicinity, unless you have turned the access off, which BT do not make a point of telling you about.

AMH · January 29, 2012, 06:30:36 PM

Quote from: rote8;810114I hope everyone with BT Infinity realise that you are also a WiFi access point for anyone and everyone in the vicinity, unless you have turned the access off, which BT do not make a point of telling you about.

good point Ray - that was another good reason not to use their router (as well as it being pants!)

Neil\'s now had two calls trying to arrange to install the new router. They won\'t just send it so he keeps telling them we don\'t want it then - they don\'t seem to understand. :Giggle

rote8 · January 29, 2012, 06:54:10 PM

Ann in my line of work getting BT to understand even the simplest of instructions seems to be totally beyond them, you wait until you want them to grasp anything technical.:Grrr:censored:

AMH · January 29, 2012, 07:20:23 PM

Quote from: rote8;810127Ann in my line of work getting BT to understand even the simplest of instructions seems to be totally beyond them, you wait until you want them to grasp anything technical.:Grrr:censored:

I know Ray.

We had a nightmare getting Infinity installed - the Open Reach guys would be on the phone to BT trying to explain the problem and they just didn\'t seem to get it. When we finally got it the modem was dropping a dozen or more times a day - Neil and I both work from home a lot so that\'s just not on. Their answer was to keep sending replacement routers - so we just brought a Netgear one and it\'s been fine.

Now they have finally acknowledged that their routers are pants they wonder why we don\'t want a new one - or rather the poor company they have outsourced the work to don\'t get why we don\'t want one.

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