Story so far - 1st 24hrs with Infinity

Just thought I'd post my experience so far, one day after moving from Sky phone-line & Unlimited ADSL to BT phone-line & Unlimited Infininty 1.
Sky-to-BT switch-over scheduled for Mon 18th Nov., 08:00 - 13:00 time slot. 
On the day :
 - 08:00 : Sky telephone & broadband went dead - as expected
 - 10:30 : Contractor arrived (& rather reluctantly agreed to run cabling to connect my HH5 16m away from the master socket)
 - 11:30 : Infinity up & running.
 - 20:30 : Telephone service back on (with same telephone number).
  Other points :
 - Estimated speeds, based on post code = 27Mb Down, 6Mb up. Actual (after 24 hrs) = 38Mb down, 7.5Mb up
 - New Android tablet connected via 5Ghz wifi is getting 38Mb down and 7.5Mb up (i.e. no reduction over wifi)
 - 6yr old laptop connected via 2.4Ghz wifi is getting 20Mb down & 5mb up.
 - various devices (iPad, Android smartphone, Q2 cube internet radio) connected at 2.4 & 5 Ghz, all working ok.
 - Connected my son's xbox (via ethernet) using "device+function" utility on router resulted in no NAT restriction.
 - On-demand working on 2 x Sky boxes connected via ethernet cable (required them to be switched off & on at wall socket to work)
 - PS3 connected to internet OK 
So, early days but so far very pleased. Hope it stays like this 

Just a heads up on my first 5 days of Infinity 2
Installed on time - engineer called first thing from exchange, line went dead for 15 minutes then he arrived and set me up.
No extra cabling required - switching from Virgin ADSL and have a long extenions EJ cable already under the carpet from phone to router.
Was promised speeds of up to 59 down and 17 up.
Have been regularly undertaking speed checks especially at weekend and late eveings when whilst with VM speed died from my max of 14 down and 1 up.
Speed results indicate 75 down and 14 up whenever i have done the test. - That's excellent, of course things might change but so far so damm good.
Router only reset itself once in the first three days.
I do switch it off sometimes and when i switch it back on the lights go; Green, blue for a few seconds, then orange flashing with the  thumb sign flashing, thumb sign stops flashing and flashing orange slows down till it becomes a solid light, a minute later it goes blue. (Is all this normal on switching on?)
Many thanks ( I did not expect such a seemless transfer after hearing the horror stories and thanks also must got o VM for the transition as well)
Happy to post here, especially if it helps anyone else.

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