Bt 8 meg problem

Rroff said:
Even if you had gigabit capability through the cable network at the time, very few hosts back then had over 100Mbit/s connections and even with servers equipped with gigabit its extremely rare to see more than about 40% of that over any distance of public internet. Not to mention that at the time the version of DOCSIS they were using on the trial capped out at 50Mbit/s or 38Mbit/s depending on which part of the trial you were on.
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I know mate....problem was I think that there was no real way of telling your speed! The tools were rubbish and they didn't think that the internet would be so fast. In reality I was probably getting about 25 meg, but damn it was fast!!!
The best thing was I had a switch, and mates would turn up and just download what they needed in mins rather than hours...and it never appeared you could saturate it (though home pc networks were rubbish those days)
I'm not disagreeing with anything said, just proving the speeds sometimes means nowt, a bit like your bandwidth monitoring
 
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Stop moaning and do something about it.

Keep being a cheapskate and put up with it or pay a little extra and migrate to a better ISP (IDNet or Zen).
 
NightSt@lk3r said:
looks like i spoke too soon, since 6pm its been gradually getting slower, down to less than 1mbit/s now :(
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I have had same problem since being with BT, market 1 exchange, BT have done numerous things to try and fix it, lift and shift was one, and fixing something at the exchange a couple of times, granted service has got better in off peak times but from 5pm till midnight it is around 1 meg, after midnight around 7 meg

but I see there is no point in it so have got my MAC code and am signed up to Xilo home 50GB, ok it has a limit but I think I can keep it in limit, and it's unlimited off peak so I will download after midnight, just hoping that I will get a decent speed at peak times with them
 
well a little update, my xilo service is live, and the net is just as bad as ever, so for all you that say get a better isp, it dosn't work:o

 
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hyperst said:
well a little update, my xilo service is live, and the net is just as bad as ever, so for all you that say get a better isp, it dosn't work:o

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if your exchange is near capacity and BT are unwilling to add any capacity or upgrade it then there is little you can do. I'm afraid that there are lots of people who have no experience of a market 1 exchange where there is little point in being with anyone as the exchange simply can't handle the load placed on it. Until recently I was in that boat, I've changed exchange now but so far only CPW LLU equipment is in place. My BT service is adequate if a little overpriced, but fits my useage best out of the ISP's I've looked at so far. However, as the exchange is slowly getting/expecting more LLU operators I'll wait a little longer...
 
hyperst said:
well a little update, my xilo service is live, and the net is just as bad as ever, so for all you that say get a better isp, it dosn't work:o

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But have you let us know? :)

Unless you've raised this with us (and I can't see any tickets reporting the issue), we can't investigate and get BT to pull their finger out and check the VP capacity.

Also - please don't use Morecambe, that server is just not reliable enough. Use ours at http://speedtest.uno.net.uk/ and the results are logged against your account.

Matt
 
uno said:
But have you let us know? :)

Unless you've raised this with us (and I can't see any tickets reporting the issue), we can't investigate and get BT to pull their finger out and check the VP capacity.

Also - please don't use Morecambe, that server is just not reliable enough. Use ours at http://speedtest.uno.net.uk/ and the results are logged against your account.

Matt
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Hi Matt, I'm guessing you work for Xilo;), to be honest I didn't want to hassle you with it as it is purely down to BT and the exchange that I am on is market 1 , I had 3 months of BT giving me the run around and I am now so deflated from it all I give up all hope of a decent service, and thats because unles BT upgrade the exchange, I know now nothing can be changed to help.

did a speed test from you link

http://speedtest.uno.net.uk/result/26340/
All ways had a terible upload speed, and it must be part of the problem.
 
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hyperst said:
to be honest I didn't want to hassle you with it as it is purely down to BT and the exchange that I am on is market 1
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Please do - your connection is not working as we'd expect.

Being Market 1 has nothing to do with the issue. If the VP you are on has been loaded more than another, we can request you are shifted or find out when the VP is going to be regraded if the others are in a similar condition.

Matt
 
uno said:
Please do - your connection is not working as we'd expect.

Being Market 1 has nothing to do with the issue. If the VP you are on has been loaded more than another, we can request you are shifted or find out when the VP is going to be regraded if the others are in a similar condition.

Matt
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ok, I will raise a ticket, they (bt) have all ready done a lift and shift, and claimed to have fixed a faulty power unit in the exchange, all to make no difference, but I will give it a go:)
 
uno said:
Please do - your connection is not working as we'd expect.

Being Market 1 has nothing to do with the issue. If the VP you are on has been loaded more than another, we can request you are shifted or find out when the VP is going to be regraded if the others are in a similar condition.

Matt
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hmm, double post
 
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