timmy2take

iTrader: (7)

A family member of mine is struggling with the quality of there connection. They live far out in the sticks and downloads are almost an impossiblitly for things like Iplayer etc.

I have googled it, but all that seems to come up is the price you'd pay in your area. They are currently with Talk Talk. I'm with them but live about 100 yards away from the telephone exchange and get approx 800kb a sec.

mike1210

what options are available to them

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

timmy2take

iTrader: (7)

Tenterden is where they live, but a few miles from the town.

The only operator that seems available is talk talk and thats who they are with. Looks like they will have to stick with them

eneral Information
Exchange name: Tenterden
Exchange code: NDTEN
Location: Kent South East
Postcode: TN306RJ
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Serves (approx): 3,520 residential premises
308 non-residential premises.
Broadband availability overview
ADSL:
Yes
SDSL:
No
LLU services:
Yes
Cable:
No
Wireless:
Yes
BT Wholesale information
ADSL status:
Enabled as of 29/08/2003
ADSL Max status:
Enabled as of 31/03/2006
SDSL status:
Not available
21CN WBC status:
Not available
FTTC status:
Not available
Wireless broadband availability
Now Wireless:
Not available
Urban Wimax:
Not available
Kijoma:
Not available
EMNET Notts:
Not available
Orbital / VFast:
Enabled
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Virgin Media:
Not available
Smallworld Media:
Not available
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Entanet:
Not available
Lumison:
Not available
NewNet:
Not available
Node4:
Not available
Orange:
Not available
Pipex:
Not available
Sky / Easynet:
Not available
Smallworld:
Not available
TalkTalk (CPW):
Enabled
Tiscali:
Not available
Tiscali TV:
Not available
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Not available
Zen Internet:
Not available

winston69

iTrader: (30)

Looks like they can only get Talk Talk on a LLU service but normal ADSL should be ok? I'm with Zen and they are faultless, but expensive

kernel

If they live far out in to the sticks is the problem simply line length and thus ADSL will be slow regardless of which ISP they use? Check the modem's sync speeds and noise figures. This should give an indication of what they might expect.

john_s

iTrader: (1)

What router are they using? Is it an old one, or fairly recent?

I'm a fair way from the exchange and when I replaced my old router, I got a big increase in both connection speed and stability.