After a month and half of using BT’s new Infinity broadband connection the download speed continues to increase to near the maximum.
The BT engineer had to come out on the 21st Jan. as the whole connection had shut down!
Turned out to be a defective ADSL Modem which is separate from the Router in an Infinity configuration.
Although this was a big issue for me at the time as I was in the middle of a project that required a lot of emailing and the modem breaking after only a month (bad QA I expect), I did learn something from the BT engineer about BT Infinity connections. They are quite sensitive to the the age of the driver that is being used by the network card in your PC.
My PC is about five years old with an original Dell onboard network connection socket (and driver), but it appears that the driver was holding back the ability for the connection to go above 16/18MB download.
Anyway to cut a long story short, I went out and bought a new PCI network card, installed the latest driver and hey presto!! We now have a connection up around the 32MB mark. excellent news and great for watching BBC iPlayer programmes.
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