BT vision and infinity

[Deleted member 18121]

Anyone got it?

I've been with sky for years and years but have got a great opportunity to switch for a massively reduced rate..... does anyone have it/have experience of it?

From my reading of it I need the aerial on my roof to receive it?

Adam

 

[Rooter]

You do, ergo I have not got it. Sky for me.

 

[guest100718]

I have infinity broadband, its excellent. just freesat for tele and netflix.

 

[Martin70]

I have infinity broadband. Engineer altered a phone socket, installed the hub and drove up the exchange to switch it on it took less than an hour and download speed went instantly from 7 to 50. That's wired to the hub, wireless anywhere in the house is still a perfectly acceptable 14 or so.

 

[Rooter]

I have infinity broadband. Engineer altered a phone socket, installed the hub and drove up the exchange to switch it on it took less than an hour and download speed went instantly from 7 to 50. That's wired to the hub, wireless anywhere in the house is still a perfectly acceptable 14 or so.

if you are getting 50 on a wired connection, you should be getting much more than 14 wireless. what device are you measuring wireless from? what is the wifi chip? B,G,N? Do you have the wifi settings on the router optimised? Its common if you have an older device connected to your wifi network with say a B chip, everything will run at that rate, ie slowest sets the standards...

My sky fibre is 38 wired and 34 wireless...

 

[Martin70]

if you are getting 50 on a wired connection, you should be getting much more than 14 wireless. what device are you measuring wireless from? what is the wifi chip? B,G,N? Do you have the wifi settings on the router optimised? Its common if you have an older device connected to your wifi network with say a B chip, everything will run at that rate, ie slowest sets the standards...

My sky fibre is 38 wired and 34 wireless...

Hmmm cheers for that mate I will investigate - I just assumed that would be the norm.

 

[CMAC]

I'm 62 wired and 17 wireless............but the wireless comes out an old BT router I McGuyvered to give wireless in a room the router wouldnt reach.

Prefer to get a wireless home plug instead now, any recommendations chaps?

 

[chrisd]

I live in a village so my broadband is pigeon delivered, and I have just ditched the so and so's at Sky and gone back to BT. I never hardly got close to the speeds (albeit slow) that Sky promised, they have also stitched me up on my tv package and I'm thoroughly brassed off with them.

 

[Rooter]

I'm 62 wired and 17 wireless............but the wireless comes out an old BT router I McGuyvered to give wireless in a room the router wouldnt reach.

Prefer to get a wireless home plug instead now, any recommendations chaps?

Belkin or netgear, you want one that mimics your SSID and not create a new "extention" network for seamless roaming ideally IMHO.

 

[Martin70]

I'm 62 wired and 17 wireless............but the wireless comes out an old BT router I McGuyvered to give wireless in a room the router wouldnt reach.

Prefer to get a wireless home plug instead now, any recommendations chaps?

I've got a pair of home plugs which I bought as my work laptop has to connected via LAN, cable there is no wireless for security reasons. I got mine from Argos for roughly 25 quid I think.

One thing worth mentioning is that the sockets have to be on the same circuit which I found to my dismay. When working from home I have to connect downstairs as upstairs is on a differen circuit. Probably for the best as the room I use has no tv or playstation etc

 

[Maninblack4612]

I get BT Vision for free because my daughter works for BT. It works fine and, initially, I paid for Sky Sports 1 & 2 for the golf & football. It was bad enough Sky moving the golf to Sky 3 or 4 on a Saturday & Sunday but now it's there all the time. This, plus the way Newcastle have been playing, caused me to give it up. Sky, by the way, comes via the Internet. We have Infinity, although still not that fast, but it was good enough to receive Sky.

 

[CMAC]

Belkin or netgear, you want one that mimics your SSID and not create a new "extention" network for seamless roaming ideally IMHO.

thanks Scott, no idea what you just said so can you explain in child like sentences please:thup:

 

[Rooter]

thanks Scott, no idea what you just said so can you explain in child like sentences please:thup:

some of the plugs basically create a new wireless network within your house, so you would have to chose to connect to it. Seamless expansion of your current SSID (ie "Colins house") would allow you to walk say from the living room by your BT router, to upstairs and connect to your extender box, but still on the same network...

Clear as mud?! good!

 

[CMAC]

some of the plugs basically create a new wireless network within your house, so you would have to chose to connect to it. Seamless expansion of your current SSID (ie "Colins house") would allow you to walk say from the living room by your BT router, to upstairs and connect to your extender box, but still on the same network...

Clear as mud?! good!

bit liked watered down mud- so do I need to get wireless home plugs that say....what?

 

[CliveW]

How I dream of speeds like these. I've just upgraded and get 3 mbps. I too have Netflix and it takes longer to download than to watch the actual programme!

 

[Rooter]

bit liked watered down mud- so do I need to get wireless home plugs that say....what?

Just buy this one colin, TPlink are good and i should have mentioned them in my first post:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/tp-link-a...plug-wifi-extender-with-2-lan-ports-kit-n71qt

 

[CMAC]

Just buy this one colin, TPlink are good and i should have mentioned them in my first post:

http://www.maplin.co.uk/p/tp-link-a...plug-wifi-extender-with-2-lan-ports-kit-n71qt

cheers Scott, that looks ideal, I need two extenders though for 2 different rooms, I have one home plug already but not wireless, so will I have to dump them and get the one you linked to but with two extenders?

sorry if stupid questions and apologies OP for the thread hijack

 

[Rooter]

cheers Scott, that looks ideal, I need two extenders though for 2 different rooms, I have one home plug already but not wireless, so will I have to dump them and get the one you linked to but with two extenders?

sorry if stupid questions and apologies OP for the thread hijack

TP Link do some triple packs, so you have 1 unit plugged into your router via ethernet cable. then 2 x wifi extenders that can go wherever in the house (as long as they are on the same ring main, not sure if you live in an old or new house)

have a look at this one, http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WPA4220T-Powerline-Extender-Configuration/dp/B00GC3Z6I0

 

[CMAC]

TP Link do some triple packs, so you have 1 unit plugged into your router via ethernet cable. then 2 x wifi extenders that can go wherever in the house (as long as they are on the same ring main, not sure if you live in an old or new house)

have a look at this one, http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WPA4220T-Powerline-Extender-Configuration/dp/B00GC3Z6I0

cheers Scott, same ring main sounds like it could put a spanner in the works! old house but we had it rewired 4 years ago.
so my current home plugs are redundant now?

 

[Rooter]

so my current home plugs are redundant now?

if you are going for new wifi ones, yes.