Broadband speed.



What does this mean?
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This means that unless you are paying top dollar, that is a fairly good speed (give or take).

Most "normal" broadband is offered at speeds up to a certain level. Mine is up to 8mb so 6 or 7 is decent. Further down the line, this will drop. The chance of getting the full whack is almost non-existent. If you were next to the exchange, then maybe.

2-4mb is perfectly capable of running a good internet, but video downloading (youtube etc.) will be compromised.

Unless I'm very wrong, internet down the telephone line is never going to get much better.....new cabling and/or fibre optic is the way forward. BT are lining up 21CN (21st century network) across huge areas of the country utilising the ADSL2+ technology, which can reach 24mbs...but I don't know the full ins and outs.

The long and short is, if you pay for up to 8 and get 2-6, there's not much to complain about. If you pay for up to 20 and get no better than on an 8mb deal, you're being done.
 
I've never heard of your ISP before.
who is your provider and what are you actually paying for? I know they have the 'up to' cop out to hide behind but unless you're still paying for 2Mb it's ridiculous (couldn't be them getting their own back for all the deals you negotiated?)

one for the experts - what does the star rating refer to - it can't be a measure of the performance any of us are getting.
 
The star rating, is just a customer\user rating.

Anyone who uses the speedtest site, can give a rating to their ISP.
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I used to check mine on another service which then shows you a map of users and speeds. Not the exact house, but almost (postcode, I guess).

Around me, the norm is 2-7mb and there are at least a dozen ISPs on the "map".

What surprised me was the pathetic figures of one particular ISP, speeds of 0.5 - 0.8mb were the typical.
Now, it could be that these people are paying for a very minimal service at minimal cost....but how minimal is minimal? Perhaps France Telecom might like to explain how they are providing 40mb to the people of Paris, but only 0.8 to the people of my town?

Actually, I'm sure they wouldn't like to explain.
Nor would they like to explain why when you use your ORANGE mobile in France they charge you so much.

I asked about excessive charges and the response was "we have to pay a 3rd party". Well, the 3rd party IS Orange so I'd have thought the normal rate for a call in the UK + the normal rate for a call in France added together ought to cover it. :D
 
Great thread this one. This morning I was a



After an hour on the blower I am now



A bit of an improvement but still as slow as shuck water.

Spent some time switching connetions etc aand the good news is when I had my tinternet boxy thing hooked up to my phone conection in the hall it was 3.5+

I'm off to Band Q tonight to get get some new adsl cable and will be moving my box to the hall socket tonight.

Its worth checking your signal in differnt phone sockets in the house. Now the guy from sky was also able to callibrate my signal and I need to phone him back when I move it to the hall.
 
Sounds like you are a fair distance from the telephone exchange, the same problem I have. However you might of heard of FTTC (Fibre to the Cabinet) that BT are rolling out now under their branding BT Infinity. It will boost your broadband speed up to 40Mbps, yours is currently .89Mbps so some difference. By replacing copper with fibre they are effectively bringing the exchange closer to your house. Therefore less signal loss and better speeds, uploading and downloading.

I'm with Plus Net (who use BT equipment at the exchange), they offer FTTC on a trial and I will have it installed soon.

Check if you can get BT Infinity by putting your tel no. in their web site.
 
Its either Aberdeen or Manchester for me.

I checked the BT site and cant get Infinity (yet) although when I get moved to the other socket I will be more than happy. I will look forward to watching a video clip without waiting fro it to buffer!!
 
Whoa.

Consigned to the attic studio, tested my speed this morning.



Not bad.

Clearly the only weak link in the chain (if there is one) has nothing to do with the ISP or router, but being 3 floors from the wi-fi.

I am however working on the theory that my wi-fi is 10x faster than my internet.....
 
Ah Grasshoppeer

Your wifi speed measures the speed of your connection via wifi to the router, This will depend on distance and the architectural bits of your house ie walls.

The speedtest measures the speed from your Router to the ISP and back, WHICH IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT OK

Fragger

PC Hero to the Gentry ( who are more confused than the minions)
 
Bloody Plusnet.
Am in the process of changing my ISP and am with Plusnet at the moment.
My new provider requires a MAC code to set the wheels in motion.
Now, if I want to take up broadband with Plusnet I can ring their sales office anytime, night or day, and the phone is answered within 30 seconds. Nothing is too much trouble.
But if you want to cancel, you can only phone the cancellation number between 9.00am-5.30pm (how convenient when you are at work all day) and you will have a minimum wait of 20 minutes (but it actually works out a lot longer) to speak to an "advisor". Also, it's an 0845 number so will cost you a fecking fortune (unless you get an alternative number to ring via "saynoto0870" which I did).
And when you do eventually get to speak to somebody they spend the next 5 minutes trying to talk you out of leaving. After finally realising that they weren't going to talk me into staying, I'm told my MAC code will be available next Monday!! A weeks wait!
Say what you like about AOL, when I left there they gave me a MAC code straight away.
I guess they were glad to get rid of me
 
Head south out of Lincoln on the A15 and I'm the 3rd peat farm on the right
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:D

It's not much better in Woodhall. The Perils of living in the back arse of lincolnshire.

Now I live near civilisation, I get upwards of 10Mb. It's marvellous.
 
Ah Grasshoppeer

Your wifi speed measures the speed of your connection via wifi to the router, This will depend on distance and the architectural bits of your house ie walls.

The speedtest measures the speed from your Router to the ISP and back, WHICH IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT OK

Fragger
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I do know that.....did I give the opinion I thought otherwise? My "using-of" the internet is slower upstairs than downstairs, which is the fascinating part.....the internet "supply" to the router is the same and I thought that routers transmitted at 54mbps (faster than internet speed), so the weak link in the chain is simply the time it takes for my dongle to pick up the data from my lounge. Or have I got it wrong?

In other words, sat next to the router (more or less) and/or sat in the attic, the internet and wifi both run at the same speed, but it will be slower further away.

...or have I lost the plot... :)
 
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