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Old May 6, 2011 | 04:26 PM
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I notice that with the Virgin results, you get a really poor upload speed in relation to the download - that is really naff.

Also, how is the contention on Virgin? - I heard it was awful

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it is what it is. 5Mbit upload is the max you will get with a 50Mbit connection. 100Mbit has a 10Mbit upload. I have to wait until September for 100 Mbit in my area.
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Old May 6, 2011 | 08:13 PM
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You lucky sods.... I have to make do with my ADSL MAX connection of 5.5 Mb until Infinity comes over here March 2012! I could squeeze another 1.5 Mb moving to ADSL2, but I can't be arsed as I lose my inclusive webspace (I have stuff linked to it from so many places). With a 35Mb connection though I won't hesitate in losing that facility. lol
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Old May 6, 2011 | 09:21 PM
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I must have one of the slowest at 2.6mb down, 0.3mb up & a 40ms ping!!!

If I lived 3 mile up the road I'd be in a Virgin Fibre Optic area with 100mb on tap.

2.6mb is better than nowt I suppose!
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Old May 6, 2011 | 09:38 PM
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Originally Posted by OcTag3n
I must have one of the slowest at 2.6mb down, 0.3mb up & a 40ms ping!!!

If I lived 3 mile up the road I'd be in a Virgin Fibre Optic area with 100mb on tap.

2.6mb is better than nowt I suppose!
Think again, 2.33mb.

only installed last week but a lot better than i had before

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1284711367.png

The penalty for living in the countryside............
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Old May 6, 2011 | 10:32 PM
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Don't feel bad with 2Mb.... I think the national average is around that in any case. I still remember 56k modems and that was not too long ago. You were considered the Daddy if you had dual 128k ISDN in those days.
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Old May 7, 2011 | 08:16 AM
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I've got ADSL backup on my infinity, and I only get 1.5MB / 0.78MB on that!
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Old May 7, 2011 | 10:17 AM
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Upload is lower than usual, but not too bad..

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Old May 7, 2011 | 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by jsh1
Wow!

You must be on an uncontended, symmetrical business line?

I would love that performance, I bet it's not cheap lol

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Not mine unfortunately, I work in a Uni where we have a gigabit up and down, which is nice

My home connection is Zen 17 meg down 1 meg up so not as fast as these FTTC installs
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Old May 7, 2011 | 12:09 PM
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Ah Uni, that takes me back......... I used to work at Manchester Uni and we had JANET and other things

Ten years later I'm living in a small village on 2MB ASDL

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Old May 17, 2011 | 12:22 PM
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Supposedly our exchange got upgraded and I see a shiny new green box appeared down the road next to the old one quite a few months back however I go on BT's website and put in the phone number / post code and it tells me it's not available
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Old May 18, 2011 | 03:46 PM
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Hmm bit of googling seems to show that just because the exchange you are attached to is upgraded it still doesn't necessarily mean you'll get it Either because not all the roadside cabinets in the area can be replaced/upgraded or they don't think your line will support over 15Mbs. Seems like I'm in this camp as the BT wholesale ADSL checker does indeed confirm I can get a fibre service but guestimates the rate to be around 10Mbs. Currently get around 2.4Mbs on ADSL Max.

BT are so useless. I miss cable
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Old May 18, 2011 | 04:11 PM
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I think I win , seen the infinity vans around the corner about a week a go no change in speeds though

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Old May 18, 2011 | 05:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Funkii Munkii
I think I win , seen the infinity vans around the corner about a week a go no change in speeds though

Ouch, that's really bad Thought about using 3G/Cellular instead?
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Old May 18, 2011 | 06:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Funkii Munkii
I think I win , seen the infinity vans around the corner about a week a go no change in speeds though

that is gash mate. i could send a carrier pigeon faster than that. guess i dont know how lucky i am.
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Old May 18, 2011 | 06:59 PM
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Originally Posted by mike1210
Not mine unfortunately, I work in a Uni where we have a gigabit up and down, which is nice

My home connection is Zen 17 meg down 1 meg up so not as fast as these FTTC installs
My work recently setup an upgraded network for JANET running at 100gig. Admittedly the core network but sweet none the less

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Old May 18, 2011 | 08:52 PM
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Originally Posted by bigsinky
that is gash mate. i could send a carrier pigeon faster than that. guess i dont know how lucky i am.
Couldn't believe it when we moved in, it was like being transported back to 1998 FFS
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Old May 19, 2011 | 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Funkii Munkii
Couldn't believe it when we moved in, it was like being transported back to 1998 FFS
When we were looking to move quite a few years ago, one of my first questions was "how far are you from the exchange and can I have your phone number to put in to the BT Checker?".
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Old May 19, 2011 | 04:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Funkii Munkii
Couldn't believe it when we moved in, it was like being transported back to 1998 FFS

hey i have used a 1200/300 acoustic coupler, that's how old I am. i remember getting an external 33.6k modem and thinking it was the dogs *****. MS-DOS and Windows 3.0
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Old May 19, 2011 | 06:00 PM
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Originally Posted by bigsinky
hey i have used a 1200/300 acoustic coupler, that's how old I am. i remember getting an external 33.6k modem and thinking it was the dogs *****. MS-DOS and Windows 3.0
Yes. I had a 300/300 one of those and then upgraded to the WS2000 to run my own BBS and thought it was incredible ..

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Old Jul 15, 2013 | 04:19 PM
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Well I finally got rid of the gash

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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 07:20 PM
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My Infinity 2 is going in on the 3rd September, gonna need a gigabit switch as well as I can't use my DSL55U router with FTCC.

71mb is my estimate with 20mb upload
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 07:25 PM
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Has Big Sinky fallen under the weight of all that ****. ...
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Old Aug 12, 2013 | 09:36 PM
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He wanked him self to death.


He's good I spoke to him about a week ago one twitter
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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 07:28 AM
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We had it (65MB) then moved here where it was promised eight months ago. Still nowt and a PITA for our business .
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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 09:46 AM
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So far we've been really happy with BT Infinity, were on the upto 76MB plan.

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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 11:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Ant
He wanked him self to death.


He's good I spoke to him about a week ago one twitter
How come he's never on here nowadays, he was a funny bugger.
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Old Aug 13, 2013 | 03:50 PM
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Best youll get with BT ATM is 76 due to them putting cards in the dlam cabs they didn't think they would achieve that
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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 04:20 PM
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Installed today.

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/2942143465



2nd run got 17.05Mb/s upload so pretty happy overall!

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Old Sep 3, 2013 | 06:48 PM
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Had mine since Jan this year, very pleased with it

Below is with an IPad






I get nearly 70 Mp/s with a wired connection during the day
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Old Sep 8, 2013 | 12:40 PM
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BT seems to have shed its bad image of the past, i was a bit sceptical about switching to them but ive been very happy since it was installed which is a while now. Occasionally it drops into the 60's at peak times but not often


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