Steve Marshall wrote:You might want to pay attention to their latest comical broadband limits they have put in place as of today!
Pay attention to the upload limits
If only I was closer to my local BT cab
Do they have the gall to charge you money for that "service"?
Where I live (top of North London) we had "Cable Camden" who installed a coax network back in the early 80s. The reception of Crystal Palace TV is notoriously bad over here, and Alexandra Palace repeater is a 10 Watt joke, so they got >95% of households to sign up. They provided (initially) 9 analogue TV channels (pretty good for the time), and when they decided to provide internet sevice, it was fine.
After a buy-out, they became "Cable London" and their network was extended. They lost a few viewers to Sky, but kept about 80% of the households connected. Their service remained about the same, though the prices went up a bit.
They then sold out to Telewest, and the rot began to set in. Prices rose rapidly, and service quality declined. They went digital and supplied new set-top boxes to all their subscribers. They had about 30 channels and a 1M internet service, but it was costly (about £60 per month for the full effort). Service was getting to the point of being a joke (it was off more than it was on) and then things went from bad to abysmal.....
Virgin took over. What a shower of incompetent morons!

They tried to sell "20 Meg" internet connections that weren't actually capable of better than 1M, and they kept trying to add ever more channels. They then started this silly "fibre network" boast - it's bullshit. Their network is mostly ratty, old coax from the 70s and 80s (mostly rotted these days) and twisted pair cable. They do have some fibre to their street corner distribution cabinets - in a few areas - but there's no FTTH (fibre to the household) at all. Around here they now have less than 5% of households and can't understand why they can't sign up anybody, despite offering free installation and a pair of free Tivo boxes to new customers. They simply can't get their heads around the fact that the very best set-top box is just a lump of useless plastic unless it is receiving something useful...
I used BeThere ADSL2+ for the last few years (at a genuine, consistent 21Megs), but they've just been bought by Sky

and the prices are going up. Remember too that if you ever phone Sky customer services you
always get that annoying Scottish woman....
So.... I phoned BT (against my better judgement) and enquired about their VDSL service ("Infinity 2"). They installed three days later, and apart from having to run a slightly unsightly ethernet cable down my hallway, the installation was pretty good.
Their router is a piece of junk unfortunately, and you are forced to be a "Fon" base station - they claim it doesn't impinge on your bandwidth, but I can assure you that it does. The "Fon" signal also degrades your personal wireless signal.... I disabled the wireless on their router, used it as a wired switch, and connected a cheap TP-Link wireless router to it and the problem was solved. I get 90 - 100Megs

on the wired connections (like the desktop machine I'm using right now) and 50 - 60 Megs over the wireless network (these are genuine measurements incidentally - I don't use Windoze with its inflated figures, I use Linux and have a high quality, worry-free computing experience and can do proper measurements!).

Upload speeds are around 30 - 50 Megs!
So.... I'd recommend BT Infinity 2, with the slight proviso that you really want to cripple the wireless on their router and supply your own wireless router!