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So I live in the South East and constantly bitch about my shoddy service with BT and then I find out about a service called Vfast (how have I not heard of them before) :mad: which can possibly offer me upload speeds far greater than I thought possible.

I wanted to know if anyone on here has used the service and what it's like I am in one of the available coverage areas http://www.vfast.co.uk/coverage/

Will switch over asap if I hear good things but there's not much information to go off on the web for the company/reliability etc.
 
But the problem with wireless net is the latency will also be crazy high due to possible interference.

If I was you I would check what LLU products are avaliable to you by checking your exchange with this site: http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange_search

Ideally you want an ISP like o2, Be or Sky as they're the best for LLU internet (Their own equipment at the exchange instead of relying on BT equipment). However, the max upload speed is 2.5mb with Be. From the sounds of things you want high upload speeds.

Hence I would check if you can get Virgin Media or BT Infinity. Virgin offers upload speeds of 5mb with their 50mb package, while BT Infinity offers 10mb. However not everyone can get these fibre optic packages so you will need to check if it's avaliable in your area.
 
Be or O2 LLU if available in your are, nuff said, I dont understand why you are suggesting jumping to a wireless provider straight from BT of all providers without giving the good ones a shot?
 
I only have ADSL/Wireless and Vfast (Only one available on wireless broadband) as ticked options available to me from my post code, on that website samknows. Trust me if I had an alternative I'd take it but I'm left with sticking with my terrible speeds as they are or going with vfast and having guaranteed superior speeds the latency may be an issue but the general results seem to be far better than I am currently being served I need it mainly for the upload factor as well so having a slower browsing experience isn't a problem and the general review of the service seems like the latency isn't the bad. I am within a coverage area so I guess I'll just have to bite the bullet and find out for myself.

£99 installation and then £36.99 a month
 
DJMK4 said:
Be or O2 LLU if available in your are, nuff said, I dont understand why you are suggesting jumping to a wireless provider straight from BT of all providers without giving the good ones a shot?
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ADSL is the most I can get currently :eek: and BT has the fastest speeds average within my village apparently my speed is 3x quicker than the average within my area God knows how the rest of them deal with it. Stick with my current rate of

Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 7616 Kbps 448 Kbps

or upgrade to this

VMax - Up to 24Mbps download / 10Mbps upload, 15:1 contention ratio

for £10 more a month and it's the only alternative I've found to BT.

If it even provides half of it's service it will destroy what I'm currently being served.
 
Out of curiosity could you post your routers line stats?

Although you say you get. Shoddy service, bearing in mind BT as an ISP really arno that great, you havnt really gone in to detail about what your receiving, where your router is plugged in, have you tried ommiting any possible adsl interference that could be causing noise on your line.

Line stats from your router would help to paint the bigger picture to see if you really are better off trying something like vfast, however if long range wireless is anything like some satellite providers then not so great!
 
How much upload do you need? When you do a search on samknows do any LLU services or more appear? How far are you from exchnge? Is your exchange 21CN enabled?
 
Vfast is really good if you are stuck in a non cable or infinity area, many of the small exchanges in Kent wont be seeing anything better than up to 8meg for some time. It is also fine for gaming pings are very good. I know this because I know someone from Ashford who is on it. They are a heavy user and they have no problems they are only on the 15meg package I think it was but I think they also do a 24 meg and have done trials on 100meg. I say go for it, you don't get tied into anything longer than 1 month contract so whats not to like. It would help to know what exchange you are on.
 
DJMK4 said:
Out of curiosity could you post your routers line stats?

Although you say you get. Shoddy service, bearing in mind BT as an ISP really arno that great, you havnt really gone in to detail about what your receiving, where your router is plugged in, have you tried ommiting any possible adsl interference that could be causing noise on your line.

Line stats from your router would help to paint the bigger picture to see if you really are better off trying something like vfast, however if long range wireless is anything like some satellite providers then not so great!
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Line Mode G.DMT Line State Show Time
Latency Type Interleave Line Up Time 00:17:28:42
Line Coding Trellis Off Line Up Count 1

Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 7616 Kbps 448 Kbps
Noise Margin 6.3 dB 22.0 dB
Line Attenuation 11.0 dB 6.0 dB
Output Power 15.7 dBm 11.9 dBm


Is that what your after ? I don't really know the intricacies of this stuff.

I'm quite close to Ashford and someone posted this up

not that it is super relevant to me but if people are getting speeds like that (even if Ashford is a BT Infinity Area) if I can get close to those speeds in an area where no new services are available (won't be available for years) I think it's worth the risk surely ?

And I need that upload speed increase big time even if I sort out the line my maximum upload speed would still be abysmal compared to what I want.
 
DJMK4 said:
How much upload do you need? When you do a search on samknows do any LLU services or more appear? How far are you from exchnge? Is your exchange 21CN enabled?
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You are approximately 482 metres from the exchange. Note that this is the straight line distance - the actual cable length will be longer!
Broadband availability overview

The following services are available in your location:

BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
Orbital / VFast Wireless


ADSL:
Yes
SDSL:
No
LLU services:
No
Cable:
No
Wireless:
Yes
BT Wholesale information
ADSL status:
Enabled as of 21/07/2004
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
Cable Broadband Availability
Virgin Media:
Not available
Smallworld Media:
Not available
 
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Dude I am 333 meters from the exchange and getting 20mb and 1.4 up, if I jump to thus next BE package I could get 2.5mb up.

It's a real shame they don't do LLU or adsl2+ in your area as you area as you are close to the exchange it seems.

If your going to try this vfast I would atleast find out where their closest mast is to your house and try and do some research. But yeah as said seeing as they do one month contracts would be no had
In trying if you felt ok with it?

Excuse the bad grammar, on the mobile
 
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DJMK4 said:
Dude I am 333 meters from the exchange and getting 20mb and 1.4 up, if I jump to thus next BE package I could get 2.5mb up.

It's a real shame they don't do LLU or adsl2+ in your area as you area as you are close to the exchange it seems.

If your going to try this vfast I would atleast find out where their closest mast is to your house and try and do some research. But yeah as said seeing as they do one month contracts would be no had
In trying if you felt ok with it?

Excuse the bad grammar, on the mobile
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Not a problem thanks for the reply yeah it sucks that those are all the options available to me but I can understand it not that many people would be demanding more than what we have hell I was happy with it until I started to require a better upload speed. And having to wait 7-9 hours for 1GB of data to go up on dropbox is infuriating. I'm stuck with no option but vfast I was just asking in case anyone had used the service on here and rated them.

as mr griffin said though it's a good option if you have no other choice and I'm pretty much stuck with accepting what I've got or trying out some new service that could increase speeds tenfold on the upload side of things (reason I want it anyway)
 
Looks like ur on a little crappy exchange. The good news is that if you ever do get anything better your very close to the exchange so will get good speeds. A friend of mine who lives in Sandling can only get 1meg on adsl as he live so far from the exchange... he tried to sign up to v fast but his neighbours had some huge trees that stopped him being able to get it, what I am getting at is just because vfast is in your area you still might not be able to get it, that's why they send out an engineer to check first, so before you do anything that needs to be the next step. I would be amazed if you were not over the moon with the speed you got from vfast if you go for the 24 meg package compared to what you are getting now. I know how annoying it is up until 3 years ago I lived on one of them crappy little exchanges that got up to 8 meg:mad:
 
mr griffin said:
Looks like ur on a little crappy exchange. The good news is that if you ever do get anything better your very close to the exchange so will get good speeds. A friend of mine who lives in Sandling can only get 1meg on adsl as he live so far from the exchange... he tried to sign up to v fast but his neighbours had some huge trees that stopped him being able to get it, what I am getting at is just because vfast is in your area you still might not be able to get it, that's why they send out an engineer to check first, so before you do anything that needs to be the next step. I would be amazed if you were not over the moon with the speed you got from vfast if you go for the 24 meg package compared to what you are getting now. I know how annoying it is up until 3 years ago I lived on one of them crappy little exchanges that got up to 8 meg:mad:
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Indeed I am, There are some trees around me but the chimney where they'd set it up is at most level with the chimney and that'd be for 1-2 trees at best 30-80 metres away. Guess I'll have to call them up on Monday and get it all set up of course I won't be cancelling with BT until it's all up and running + reliable. And yes if it delivers thank the Gods thought I was stuck with the connection I have for the foreseeable future just a shame they aren't marketed well enough. As when I'd done similar searches in the past for available services I never found anything! that's what you get for using inferior sites to samknows I guess I'll update once I've got it all ordered/or If I can't get it installed.
 
KIA said:
You've obviously never used Vfast.
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What's your experience with the service ?

mr griffin said:
yeah its fine for gaming m8, here is my mates on ashford who is on the 15meg vfast

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][/URL]
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Thanks for sharing I'll be ordering the Vmax service so hopefully my uploads are slightly better than that although even if I'm getting 15-20% of what's advertised on the upload side that's still 5-10 times quicker than what I currently have. So that's hopefully worst case scenario (that or they can't install the thing which would be terrible)

This is my speed now just terrible
 
You can get latency that low? :eek:

Might as well give it a try and see how it goes considering you can't get any LLU/FTTC services?
 
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