classic scooby

iTrader: (21)

just upgraded my Orange broadband package and they said my line could only handle 6mb speed well i've just done 3 seperate speed checks and the lowest was 7.9mb and the highest was almost 9mb makes a huge difference(especially loading SLOW sc.net pages lol) so all in all Well Chuffed

Nick

Ant

Is 7.9mb good these days ?

I'm waiting to upgrade my 50mb to 100mb next June

EddScott

Lol, I get about 5mb at best. Line is crap, BT say its enough and our exchange wont be upgraded until next year at the earliest.

SwissTony

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some of us poor souls who live in the sticks barely manage to get 2MB, count yourself lucky !!

Ant

Swiss why not look into tooway.

CREWJ

You guys are all gods compared to my internet. I'm on a new housing estate with a MAXIMUM of 0.5Mb (Yes half!)

Shocking -.-

I miss my uni connection.....

urban

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tooway

Is that like a spitroast or something

Ant

No satellite broadband with speeds of 10mb

CREWJ

Sounds interesting....

I think I'll look into it.

Edit: Just looked into it. Bloody expensive. £100 a month for a 25Gb limit

bigsinky

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

bigsinky

you can get satellite broadband for as little as £25 month.

CREWJ

Yes but that comes with a 4Gb download limit and I could shred through that in an afternoon.

boxst

I thought that all new housing estates had fibre laid? And as such have good broadband especially when BT roll out Inifinity.

mamoon2

50mb Virgin here, did have 100mb but downgraded as 50mb is fast enough

what would scooby do

110 down and 15 up

FTTP is full of win

CREWJ

Initially they put it in but either they ripped it out or they just use the copper wires.

Either way the fibre isn't being used. Stupid council!

Jaybird-UK

Looks a bit one sided to me, mine is a bit more balanced



Shame speedtest cant show fractional ms pings

Ant

Nobody likes a show off

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

thats what I thought, I thought he was offering some sick and perverted sharing

Ant

you wish

SwissTony

iTrader: (19)

Looked into tooway, quite pricy but it may work for me where I cant get FTTC or a decent ADSL connection

Coffin Dodger

Had mine upgraded to fibre to the cabinet (FTTC) last week, AKA BT Infinity. Predicted speed was 9Mb as it turns out we're a fair way from the cabinet, but getting 20Mb. Can now stream iPlayer in HD with my nice new Panasonic plasma

But yeah Virgin trounces anything BT can offer via twisted pair. Unfortunately don't live in a cabled area

billythekid

Get about 1Mb here. No FTTC until well into next year, and even then I expect we will be last to get a cab near our estate.

Its not as if I live in the sticks either, we are about 5 miles from Manchester and well inside the M60.

300 houses on our estate and everyone has the same problem. I guess the 1000 or so houses in the surrounding area have similar problems.

There is no cable either.

Be* will offer us "twice" our speed, but its £65 for a bonded 2ADSL2 line and an extra BT line..

urban

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They should really change the name