replacement for BT Infinity1

[didds]

We have BT Infinity 1 at home, in a semi rural aspect - no fibre in the road etc, everything via telephone wires. When it was initially signed up for a BT chappy (or openreach? whoever) came round and rejigged the various phone wiring to provide whatever socket Inifinity1 needed There are still "normal" phone sockets etc.


what alternatives are there from other provider's for something "equal".

I could quote upload and download speeds but they would be similar with alternatives I would imagine due the limitations of the infrastructure I guess.

didds

[stewamax]

Use http://dslchecker.bt.com to see what may be possible using your connection to the exchange (this should be independent of supplier).
Use https://availability.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search to see if anyone apart from BT has a service to your local exchange (even though it would be using the BT’s wires from ‘green cabinet’ to house)

Then compare charges from the better suppliers (e.g. Zen) and the ‘pile em high sell em cheap’ brigade (Talk Talk et al) to see what speed you are capped at (BT Infinity 1 is, from memory, now capped at 38 Mbps) and whether the maximum shown by BT’s dslchecker is above or lower than this (no point in paying for an up to 76Mbps service if your line is far too poor to allow anything like this).
Finally, remember that part of what you pay is for customer service: the cheap ones tend to be diabolical.

[didds]

Finally, remember that part of what you pay is for customer service: the cheap ones tend to be diabolical.

Thanks Stewamax - and yes, indeed. Its why we left Plusnet.

didds