Hi,
We've had BT Infinity for a number of years now and we've been more than happy with it, both in terms of speed and reliability.
We initially signed up to Infinity 1 which at the time provided up to 40 Mbps down and around 10 Mbps up. it also came with a 20 GB data limit.
We very shortly realised that 20GB of data can be chewed up pretty quickly.
We therefore upgraded to Infinity 2.
Due to the distance from our home to the green Infinity street cabinet (around 300-400 metres), We never expected to get anywhere near to 80 Mbps and this was fine. We always had a pretty solid 37-38 Mbps down.
However, in the last 6-8 months our download speeds are sitting around 25-26 Mbps.
This isn't really a big issue as it's still plenty fast enough (first world problems ... ha ha).
However, I am wondering if this speed drop could be due to contention as more and more people have switched to Infinity.
I'll be honest and say I haven't plugged our router into the test socket as when we have Infinity installed, we had a data cable run from the BT box in the hall, up the stairs and into our office where the router has sat every since.
At this stage, I'm really just looking for advice as to how much speed you would expect to lose if contention is the issue.
I realise I'm not providing a lot of information, but nothing has changed in our set up for quote some time. Certainly nothing changed prior to me noticing the speed drops.
I did swap out the original Home hub a few weeks after we had Infinity installed. We're now using an Asus RT-AC68U router which is a great bit of kit. Again, I've not updated the firmware in the last few months so nothing has really changed there.
Like I say, how much speed should I expect to lose if our cabinet is now heavily congested?
I should add that the tests I've done are all from a desktop computer which is wired to the router.
Many Thanks
