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Check your area is geared up for this as mine is not as some places are way behind the times, my village is for sure. There is the option for BT home hub which i have heard is ok. We are thinking of changing to these from Orange but would have loved the infinity if it had been in our area, all areas have different broadband speeds and i have heard some areas do not have broadband full stop. I sometimes wish our area would come in to the 21st century.

Quote: Originally posted by RTS5 on 31/8/2012

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Out in the sticks we can only dream of such high speeds, we are lucky to get just over 2mg download and less than 1mg upload . We are with BT and have a LOT of problems but to be fair this is down to very old wiring that is so fragile that when they come out to fix someones line they take 2/3 others down at the same time.

For all that though I don't have any other issue with them.   I think if you are in a town/city or near new exchanges then they are a good way to go. Out in the sticks like us they are all very much the same, sloooooooooooooow.   

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We have broad band in our village but not infinity as someone in our street was looking in to getting it but could not have it for this reason which is a pain so they ended up getting home hub which is ok but not superfast as infinity claims to be as does Virgin, its so confusing at times. It may also come as a shock that not many people on the estate i live on have computers, only a handfull do, god honist truth i am not joking. One guy still uses his old spectrum computer, remember these things from the 1980s and another bloke has an old commodoor system.

The Goverment are saying they will increase broadband speeds. Please let my area be on the list, infact in my opinion the whole country should be the same speed. I am surprised it is not. My speed is slow but i have been told home hub is a bit faster. At certain times of the day watching videos is a pain as i get buffering. I feel everyone should be online in this day and age, that said in my younger days i found those early systems hard to use so did not bother showing intrest. Modern day computers are easy to use unlike the models of yesteryear.

Not only that some folk in my street say BAAA computers no way, the old days were better, i agree partly with them though. One old gent has just learnt how to surf the net and he loves it but some are set in there ways where i live.