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Old 07-12-2014, 19:39
Jordan_Parkinso
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has anybody made this switch if so is there any difference with speed I've had virgin for the past 5 years but the price increase in February was one too many for me.
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Old 07-12-2014, 21:15
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What seed was you getting with Virgin. Im getting between 64.3mb and 73.5mb 97% of the time with BT Infinity and im almost two streets away from the BT green cabinet.

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Old 07-12-2014, 21:22
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50MB with Virgin i have chosen Option 2 BT infinity speeds are estimated at up to 80MB with BT sports on my Sky package (already active and a £50 Sainsburys gift card
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Old 07-12-2014, 21:37
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50MB with Virgin i have chosen Option 2 BT infinity speeds are estimated at up to 80MB with BT sports on my Sky package (already active and a £50 Sainsburys gift card
You will never get the full 80mb but you will find that you should get well over 60mb speeds. Im on Infinity option 2 and have been since 2011 and have been 98% happy with the service. I now have had BT TV via the Youview box just over 11 months now.

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Old 07-12-2014, 21:45
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When you say 98 percent what do you think could be improved :P

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Old 07-12-2014, 21:54
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When you say 98 percent what do you think could be improved :P

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Well overall there Wi-Fi signal could be a little better but that's only a minor problem once in a while.
Also the BT network was having minor problems 4 days ago with a DSN server that lasted over 24 hours but that's now beed sorted but every ISP has minor problems from time to time.

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Old 20-12-2014, 07:20
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I switched from Virgin in January - I was on their 60Meg package. I used to get 60Meg all the time, but the upload was shocking at 3Meg.

I am about 250-300M from the cabinet and I get 73-75Meg download and 18.5Meg upload.

There have been one or two teething problems associated with the line from the cabinet to my house, and with a dodgy Home Hub 5 (that was replaced) but we seem to have them resolved now and things are looking rosy !!

It's such a shame that they invest millions in the fibre network and then the final leg of the delivery to the customer is, in my case, via 30-40 year old overhead cables.
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Old 20-12-2014, 14:37
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Yes but it works and is so much more cost effective that digging up all the way to the house. Look how NTL ended up when they tried that approach
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Old 20-12-2014, 14:48
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I also made the switch from the 30Mbps Virgin package, and now getting around 55Mbps on BT.

The speed is better and is costing me a lot less, and as for reliability, I am the same as Darren and about 98% happy which is probably what I was with Virgin.
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