Get more than that on my phone mate

 

I am in scotland and my nearest server on vodafone
Check out my Ookla Speedtest result. What's your speed? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/923715614

 

I know its insanely slow, can't even use my xbox to much lag

 

My mate was with bt and i got more on my phone in his house than he was getting on wifi

 

9.8mb on your phone lol thats just taking pee

 

Might be worth me getting decent phone on network and pigy backing off that

 

And thats me bouncing off a server hundreds of miles away ok its 4g but still

 

Ah don't think i will be able to get 4G where i am, will have to look into it, barely get 3G

 

mine used to be between 1 and 2.5MB/s

That was on a new build estate, where the wiring was rubbish.

Thankfully I am able to get Fibre Optic now, so jumped from that to about 60MB/s although I do pay a fair bit more.

 

60mb ahhh man. Going have to get something sorted, but checked bt website and says fiber optic wont be coming here for another few years

 

Do you run it through a filter? If so try plugging it direct into the phone socket. If I remember correctly,take out the 2 little screws in the phone socket and you will see a socket behind there,plug into that and see what speeds your getting. What speeds does your contract/package say?

 

I had poor speeds a while ago, they used to be OK, but I suspect that "contention" was the big issue

both within my house - 5 or 6 devices at any one time and on the exchange itself

to the point where iplayer or youtube was unusable, especially in the evenings

upgraded to Infinity - and wow - what a difference, never see the "buffer" icon, even with 2 or 3 people downloading stuff

 

Hi yes i have a filter, in my old place i was with BT they sent me a new front for the phone socket to help speed up connection, it did a little but nothing amazing.

Yes your correct there is 2 screws and plug behind as had to remove it in the past for internet problems. Will give it a whurl, why you thinking could be filter fault?

Mate lives down the road he gets 5mb which is abit better, if i could just get 5+ i'd be happy

 

Probably not filter but worth a check it might speed things up a little?Thing is now that everyone is online the crappy exchange boxes get slower and the further away you are the worse it gets a lot more people are switching to fiber optic,it's a lot more reliable and it means the rip off company's won't bother spending money on the old exchanges,just another way to get people switching to fiber so they can screw even more of our hard earnt cash off us! Greedy barstuards

 

Originally when I moved into my house the connection speed was circa 0.5mb/s

Eventually managed to get a BT guy out, he tested the line and found that the speed of the connection just before entering the house was circa 1.5-2mb/s

So in the 3ft between that point and the master socket in the house it dropped down to 0.5mb/s

The solution was to disconnect the Master Socket in the house and set up a new one, which he wired up directly himself from the outside to the new one.

This gave me usable internet (still ****) but bit more useable.

This could also work for you, maybe lifting yours up to the 5mb/s level.

 

Sounds good, but what was the cost?

 

ha ha removed the front of the socket plugged in then retested speed

 

Nothing, the ISP sent them out and as such they picked up the cost.

 

Ok connected internet provider, hopefully they will send an engineer out as this is just insanely low speeds for this day and age