Am I stuck with this crap? :(

[Se7ven]

Hey guys im a customer of BT and have a BT wireless router, but where I am located BT can only give me 1.5Mbit download speeds and a pitiful upload speed

This seems to be the case with most other ISP's I have checked with, because i am so far from an "exchange"

So am I doomed to have this slow ass connection speed or are there other options out there?

Thanks

 

[z0mbi3]

Cable. Maybe LLU broadband if your exchange is capable. Check samknows.com.

 

[Duke]

Have tried running a test off the master or test socket? You maybe losing some speed due to your internal cabling.

 

[~Divine~Wind~]

LLU Exchange?
Cable ?
At Master socket / test socket?
Ruled out internal cabling ?
Tried a different router?

The online speed checker can be wrong at times.
Check once with tel number only, then try with postcode only any difference?

 

[tbz_ck]

My line attenuation is about 59db on a >7KM line. Changing to LLU I was only getting 1.5Mbit/s until I changed a 5 year old Zyxel for a new Netgear DGN2000. Now I'm getting 2.8Mbit/s

Difference is night and day. I feel like I have a bonded connection of 2 lines!

So, to echo what others have said.

1) Plug router directly into telephone master socket (using an ADSL filter of course) and see what your line stats are like.
2) Use a different ISP. BT are something that sounds like "pit"
3) If you can get cable, then consider Virgin Media