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I wish I could get Be at my exchange, you would think what with Newquay being the hot spot for tourism on Cornwall we'd have updated exchanges down here.
BT BROADBAND SERIOUSLY WTH?!?!
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Im not understanding my results as follows:
My router states im connected at 4130 kbps downstream and 1131 kbps upstream. I thought that meant I was able to download at 4mb/s not nearer 40?
That isn't stating your download speed.
He said his router says 4130 kilobits (about 4 megabits) but he is actually getting 36 megabits.
I wouldn't mind having his 'problem' though
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Is there any way to check when your exchange will Be unbundled?
Samknows isn't giving any dates
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Is that down to Be or to BT not having upgraded the local exchange
Is there any way to check when your exchange will Be unbundled?
Samknows isn't giving any dates
when?
it's a very big "if". they have no intention of unbundling all exchanges. they do what they please. they're not obliged to unbundle anywhere they don't think is worth doing.
Is that down to Be or to BT not having upgraded the local exchange
Be. BT don't have to "upgrade the local exchange" to allow LLU (other, perhaps, than extending the exchange if more room is needed) - BT Wholesale and any other LLUer are equivalent.
It's done on demand, I lived in Birmingham city centre for a year and had a very limited selections of ISP's. Although it serves a lot of customers (and was at full capacity), 90% were non-residential which means there would be little demand for LLU operators even if all residential customers wanted it. The exchange was LLU enabled for Sky and TalkTalk but Sky would have involved a TV subscription and TalkTalk as an ISP is a joke.
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Ah, OK thanks, I didn't know that.
However, I have a vague feeling that Be will now only provide a service from exchanges that have been upgraded; is that not the case?
Did he get 15meg because he went from ADSL to ADSL2?
Also it irritates me when the standard response from some people (not you necessarily) is to say 'move to Be' - not all of us can get Be at our exchange.
This is all I can get and there is no other (faster) option for me. (edit - to be exact, I do have the option of the office packages which give double the upload, but I can't get a faster download than that.)
Although for web browsing, games, streaming (except HD) this connection is all you need, where line quality and latency are more relevant factors than overall bandwidth.
Yeah I agree, hence why I just said I'd recommend leaving BT rather than specifically saying go with BE. I have no idea whether my brother went from ADSL to ADSL 2, to be honest I don't really have a clue how all this Internet over the phoneline stuff works, like I said I'd been on cable for years so never really looked into it until recently. All I know is that my friends and family in the Darlington and Newton Aycliffe area's seem to get big download speed increases when they move away from BT to another provider. I know when I called up BE to ask about switching to them from BT they were going on about an LLU, I've no idea what that means though, but apparantly I'm on an LLU exchange, as is my brother.
I guess these things are dependant on location anyway, I used Comcast/NTL/Virgin since the day they put 1/2 meg into Darlo and I never had a problem with them, yet I read about people in other places that have horrible service from them.
I guess it's a matter of what you want from your ISP and what technologoy is available to you, I suppose some people are luckier than others just simply down to location.
Fatal error....o2 LLU for the win.
Fatal error! If your post it accurate, then you said it yourself - it may well not apply to throttling, but that says nothing about the cap. "Network management" can apply to both, but if it specifically says throttling then that's throttling only.
If they sold you "20MB broadband", then you might have a point - but that never happens - they sell "Up To 20MB broadband". And thus get away with supplying whatever they feel like.
Besides, just so you know, SoGA doesn't apply to service contracts anyway.
I wouldn't mind having his 'problem' though
Since it isn't possible to achieve more than about 22MB/s over ADSL2+, there's clearly a problem with the speed test. Might be an indication of latency problems, for example. You might mind after all.
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Happy with it for the moment, can stream iPlayer HD without issue normally (other than at peak times) and downloading off steam is fairly easy as it maxes the downstream speed (~800KB/s) but am just waiting to see when we get bumped to the up to 20Mb service as they've told us we should see a near doubling in speed (hopefully).
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By the way, does anyone get less speed than me, to make me feel better about only getting 2 meg?
(if I lived in the countryside I wouldn't mind, but I live in the suburbs of a sizeable town)