Bt Infinity

[toalisi]

I'm not sure if I was wise to agree to switch to BT Infinity.

I haven't noticed any appreciable difference & would appreciate
any views on the speed test I've just run.

Download 80.25
Upload 13.85

As these figures mean nothing to me - have I made a mistake
switching?

[Ivorlittlein]

Don't think so.!!

[toalisi]

Thanks that's reassuring.

It's just I can't say I've noticed any significant difference.

[Ivorlittlein]

You must,your figures are exceptional,I am with Sky Fibre and "only" get up to 38mb.Download.

[Gromit]

It that Infinity 2?

I get 38Mb download on Infinity 1.

Do you know what you were getting before your switch?

[FrogNog]

I get 76 on Infinity so yep, it's very good

[Prudie]

I've recently switched to fibre optic and the speed has gone from 2.4 to 27mbs. I don't notice any difference at all except perhaps when watching streamed stuff.

[FrogNog]

If pages are still taking a long time to load, clear your internet history and cookies.
Your cache might be groaning under the weight of every click you've made.

[toalisi]

I'm reassured by your comments- thanks.

I can't remember the numbers of the test I ran before switching
and maybe it's just a problem with posting on Answerbank-
is that a possibility?

[New Judge]

If you were on copper Broadband the usual "good" rates are between 4 and 5 mbs.

[Tuvok]

I noticed the difference immediately when we got ours.

On the ipad, the pages load before the blue progress line even finishes.

[grasscarp]

I was given it free. It keeps going down. Very disappointing.

[hc4361]

Do you think your pc is slow? If so, in what way?

[bhg481]

There's two aspects to getting data to your computer, one is connecting to the web-page you're looking for and the other is getting the data from that server to your computer. You've improved the second part immensely but made little or no change to the first part.
This means that pages may not seem to appear any quicker than they did but any data you download from them will eg, video will stream without pausing, downloading drivers/anti-virus database updates etc will be a lot quicker than it was.
The other thing to bear in mind is the PERCEIVED change in speed. Many years ago I was in charge of a very primitive internet-type system, where users were fed through "switches", each switch handling 8 users. You could vary the speed to each user from 110 bits/sec (yes, bits, not megabits, that's how long ago) up to 9600 bits/sec. If you upped a user's speed from say 1200 bps to 4800 bps they didn't seem to notice, but reduce it from 4800 bps to 2400 bps and they'd complain how slow their line had got.

[mikey4444]

I am not sure what your 80.25 means ?

If it means that you are getting 80.25 mbps, then I would have thought that you are having a stonking good service ! BT advertise its Infinity One service as having the max of only 76 mbps !

Why do you think you have made a mistake ?