I wasn't overly surprised when the BT engineer told me I was the first one on our 'cabinet' to be upgraded to their "Infinity" product (ironic name by the way, but I'll come back to this).
So I'm now on a 37Mb/s download speed (roughly 4.5MB/s) which is around 3 times faster than what I had before...exciting times for a geek like me....but I'm now left wondering what I actually do with all this bandwidth and why I really needed to order it in the first place.
Websites these days load pretty quickly even on a 2Mb/s connection, so on my previous 15Mb/s connection they performed brilliantly, the new connection makes little difference to that.
Download wise, I don't really download that much (mainly applications / updates etc.) but these are not frequent and so I haven't yet seen the benefits.
Sony's PSN has been down for the last few weeks - so I haven't been able to see how well it affects the online gaming side (not that I have that much time to play it anyway).
So what does one actually do with a fast broadband connection? Answers on a post card please.
PS: The "Infinity" product name is ironic because BT can't handle more than a certain number of customers using it per cabinet. In my local cabinet for example, I believe they can have a maximum of 90 people on the new service. There are currently 500+ people using that cabinet for their phone lines. I wonder how they'll sort that one out!
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