New ISP Help Please

memphisto · 10 May 2007 at 18:46

Hi,

well I finally managed to get a Mac code form talk talk, so now I am free to choose a better BB connection than my current £25 a month for 512k.

I have the same £25 a month to spend and although i do download some stuff not a great deal, probably a max of 5 gig a week.

I do expect this to go up with a faster connection however.

I dont mind leaving my PC on either during the day or on a night to dload the stuff i need to avoid peak hours as they were (5-12pm ? )

So I guess what would be ideal is something say 30GIG during peak hours and as unlimited as I can get outside of that. I use Bitorrent mainly to dload so got to be something which does not restrict access to that outside of peak hours.

any suggestions ?

Trifid · 10 May 2007 at 18:51

Entanet resellers tbh. Peak is weekdays 8am to 10PM(8PM for office) during this time you get a 30GB limit for £20 (I pay £25 for Aquiss' better support) and after this there is a 300GB limit.

During peak times you can expect full speed, but between 10pm and 1am it slows down to 2 meg with their anti-loss tool. This can be viewed here: http://noc.enta.net/ weekends are a crawl but don't usually go that far down. They are adding as much bandwidth as they can afford, and averaging an extra central every 4 months.

Edit: Forgot to say, what LLU's do you have? http://www.samknows.com/broadband/search.php

memphisto · 10 May 2007 at 18:53

was just looking at UKFSN TBh

looks like a possible, is there anywhere i can do a test to see what speed i would get ?

LLU's = no exchange NECR which only has ADSL according to that link mate.

Trifid · 10 May 2007 at 18:59

Does your router tell you your attenuation? If so: http://www.dslzoneuk.net/maxspeed.php

Otherwise we can pull educated guesses out of the sky based on your distance from the exchange and using the max possible for a good line at that distance using this graph: http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/graph/index.htm
(carefully said to not annoy Tolien.

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memphisto · 10 May 2007 at 19:02

nah i dont have a router mate got a BT voyager 100 Modem

probably wont even take anymore speed than what it has now

I dont really know how far i am for an exchange. I used the BT thing a long time ago and it said upto 6.5meg.

memphisto · 10 May 2007 at 19:08

using that sam knows and zooming in i would estimate between 1500-2000 metres as the bird flies ?

Trifid · 10 May 2007 at 19:23

A fair estimate would be around that. As said there is no way of knowing for sure. As a guide you could ask your neighbours what they get but your line could be made out of alu where as theirs may be copper.

Carter · 10 May 2007 at 19:30

memphisto said:
nah i dont have a router mate got a BT voyager 100 Modem

have a look here, it tells you how to get your stats etc..

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.htm#anchor8

memphisto · 10 May 2007 at 19:30

whatever its got to be faster than what i get now

what other entanet providers are there ? UKFSN, Aquiss ?

Trifid · 10 May 2007 at 19:32

ADSL24, Vivaciti, Falconnet, Freeola and Xifos. There are several more that I don't know about.

memphisto · 10 May 2007 at 19:37

Carter said:
have a look here, it tells you how to get your stats etc..

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.htm#anchor8

cheers mate

Local / Remote Attenuation 37.5 / 31.5 dB
SNR Margin 30.0

any other info needed ?

Carter · 10 May 2007 at 19:58

That attenuation is nice and low, plenty of noise margin to spare, could get 8MB all being well with your wiring etc..

memphisto · 10 May 2007 at 20:05

awesome, off to entanet as soon as my mac code arrives

faster and cheaper cant do better than that

tolien · 10 May 2007 at 20:23

Trifid said:
Otherwise we can pull educated guesses out of the sky based on your distance from the exchange and using the max possible for a good line at that distance using this graph: http://www.internode.on.net/adsl2/graph/index.htm
(carefully said to not annoy Tolien. )

You're pulling them out the sky alright, though it's hardly educated. Might as well just pick a number at random.

If you're looking for something that's even remotely accurate, try this which estimates full rate, rather than yours which suggests about 4Mbps.