I want my street cabled now! :(

$loth said:
I miss being on the Janet network, 100mb straight to my room :(
Click to expand...

+1

Moved out of my uni halls room yesterday, 100Mb at all but peak times. This was actually limited by my laptop's network card, would have been faster on a better card I think. Ah well.
 
I know friends and family on Virgin 20 & 50mb and my pings are a lot better / far less jitter than there's so it's not all bad. On Adsl2+ I could probably hit about 9Mb which would be a good improvement.

I can download as much as I want off peak and don't need to worry about being throttled which is also good.

At work we've got a 150Mb connection which is rather rapid.

I'm paying not far off £25 a month for 6Mb connection. People in the same area can get 20Mb for that although from what I have heard the network around here is apparently on it's knees!!
 
I am the Internet!

Well not really at 4mb.However it doesn't really matter that much to me these days unless I download HD. It would be nice to have more but it does the job. The next house I am moving to will be closer to the exchange and have ADSL2+ which is nice. BT need to hurry up with this fibre optic roll out.
 
Last edited:
digitalwolf said:
I'm stuck on nasty old copper. My line syncs at 6mb on normal broadband, no sign of llu here yet.
.
Click to expand...

talk to your street, no way you could raise the £200 each-10.6k for the street. As I posted earlier there have been several villages that have raised the funds needed for virgin/bt

digitalwolf said:
I know friends and family on Virgin 20 & 50mb and my pings are a lot better / far less jitter than there's so it's not all bad. On Adsl2+ I could probably hit about 9Mb which would be a good improvement.

I can download as much as I want off peak and don't need to worry about being throttled which is also good.
Click to expand...

Fantastic pings, no jittering and no throttling on 50mb.
 
AcidHell2 said:
talk to your street, no way you could raise the £200 each-10.6k for the street. As I posted earlier there have been several villages that have raised the funds needed for virgin/bt



Fantastic pings, no jittering and no throttling on 50mb.
Click to expand...

I would pay the £500 if it meant I could get 50Mb but speaking to mates in the area that have it, the word is the UBR around here is overloaded and has been for a long time. High packet loss, jitter and link disconnections are the norm at peak times.

One of my mates actually has an ADSL back up line because he can't rely on Virgin. All Virgin do is promise an upgrade and credit his account. After midnight it is very fast, around 6mb a second download speeds.

I really don't think people would be interested in paying for Virgin to come and install down here.

6Mb for most is more than enough.

Personally, if we had some kind of LLU service around here I would be reasonably happy. I could push 1Mb a second download speeds and that would be enough for me. o2 /be llu would be brilliant. Due to the high virgin uptake I highly doubt anyone would touch my exchange, it's tiny although apparently C&W have been sniffing around.
 


Costs me £4 a month for this year (after the cashback we got), goes up to £10 a month soonish. Got to love O2, and living about 20m away from the exchange :) 20mbit.
 
I'm at Uni, but the connection is throttled so its impossible to actually Stream YouTube unless its midnight. iPlayer can also tricky..

Steam sometimes downloads at 1 megabyte/second at night, but from what I've seen on here, for a university, thats still quite slow.
 
Question here guys; I am on BE unlimited, i used to always get about 10-12mb roughly on my line, lately it's dropped to only 4mb and it disconnected randomly.

I had linetests done via the adsl line aswell as phoneline where it had no noise interferance at all, tried new equipment, had an engineer visit who told me the line is perfect and after 6 days or so of leaving a router on 24/7 the line will return to it's proper speed.Problem is i used to turn it off at the end of each day, could this of lowered speed and also will it return to what it was?
 
Camelpaw said:
Haha, that's crazy! People are barely willing to give money to charity (In general), so I can't see a fund-raising event for faster broadband working out that well :/
Click to expand...

Major difference -
One is giving money to people you don't know and the other is buying something for yourself.
 
Not too sure what your problem is, I'd do anything for internet that speed.

We pay £27 a month for this speed and have done for 6 years. BT refuse to do anything about it and we can't change lines. The only way to get better BB is to move house, which we can't. This is without anything downloading or uploading, this is our best speed. This is also our speed on a good non peak day. Sometimes it drops as low as .1

 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom