Well it is done...
BT came yesterday and did the deed. Nice man from Cornwall (I live in Oxfordshire....)
The HH3 is a piece of rubbish compared to my vigor - need to look at updating that !
Before I updated:
After:
I am not sure about the upload speed. Mr BT man tested it at 18+ so I am not sure if speedtest is reporting correctly.
Anyway, sufficient to say I am (massively) impressed....
Fired up Utorrent last night about 10pm , picked a nice large torrent to download and initially I wasn't impressed only getting 15-20kB/s after 5 minutes of waiting.
Engaged in a bit of settings fiddling as per
http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/fibre/4089502-bt-infinity-or-plusnet-fttc.html?page=1&fpart=4 and restarted..
Tried again just now (midday Saturday) and even after a minute of to I am still clearing 1.5MB/s.
Maybe I didn't wait long enough on my first go - maybe after a while it would have picked up, but my inclination is that the settings did make a big difference.
For P2P Glasnost says:
So BT are shaping, however if they shape at 1.5MB/s then that's fine with me...
Can't see any other traffic being shaped.
I had always planned & costed a VPN service in just in case, but if everything continues as it is then I have a huge uplift in throughput for less money with BT Openzone thrown in... Bargain..
Now the problem is my wireless - its just not fast enough to keep up !
If anything changes I will post back here.
Anyone suggest a better/more accurate test than SpeedTest ?