Bulldog offer 16 meg service - £24.50 month

isthisusername · 29 Apr 2006 at 22:32

Isnt this the cable service.. in which case your BT line quality is not relevant?
Or am I missing something here. Thought Bulldog offer cable and BT services?

Da[]San · 29 Apr 2006 at 23:09

isthisusername said:
Isnt this the cable service.. in which case your BT line quality is not relevant?
Or am I missing something here. Thought Bulldog offer cable and BT services?

No not cable. Bulldog is an LLU service, existing BT lines from your house to the telephone exchange but terminates and then routes through Bulldog's own systems.

Bennah · 29 Apr 2006 at 23:16

Makes my 2.2mb Pipex connection look like a little kid.

I wonder if Pipex will upgrade our connection again. Currently paying £23.99 a month. They offer 8MB service now. Our's is a little lagging.

Hamster · 29 Apr 2006 at 23:37

It is quoted somewhere on the Bulldog website that speeds higher than 16Mbit are possible if your line length and quality from the exchange is good enough to support it, which falls in line with ADSL2+. Sorry, too tired and lazy to find a link. Very few people will get over 16Mbit.
I think they gave a ballpark figure of 16Mbit as more customers will get nearer this speed than faster so to save disappointment. Also the term 'double speed broadband' may be a more marketable for BD (just conjecture on my part) - God only knows why - bit like the double quarter pounder with cheese at the golden arches!
Unfortunately SRA is not yet supported with BD's architecture which is a pity but it is rumoured that this is on the cards.

HTH

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isthisusername · 30 Apr 2006 at 15:49

Da[]San said:
No not cable. Bulldog is an LLU service, existing BT lines from your house to the telephone exchange but terminates and then routes through Bulldog's own systems.

Thanks.
I'm currently getting about 4-5.5mb (max) on the new 8mb service with my current ISP. Could I be close to the 1mb upload that Bulldog quote, or are uploads and downloads irrelevant went talking line quality.

fluiduk · 30 Apr 2006 at 16:09

Does it come with the usual free of charge customer serive rudeness, and their world renowned special... 'billing errors'.

Da[]San · 30 Apr 2006 at 17:26

isthisusername said:
Thanks.
I'm currently getting about 4-5.5mb (max) on the new 8mb service with my current ISP. Could I be close to the 1mb upload that Bulldog quote, or are uploads and downloads irrelevant went talking line quality.

You need to check if your exchange has Bulldog's equipment, goto Samknows and enter in your details.

tolien · 30 Apr 2006 at 20:37

isthisusername said:
Could I be close to the 1mb upload that Bulldog quote, or are uploads and downloads irrelevant went talking line quality.

They aren't connected anyway. Upstream runs at lower frequency, so sees lower attenuation.

Dave2150 · 1 May 2006 at 01:09

tolien said:
Wonder why they're not going to the full 24Mbps of ADSL2+...

Maybe because no-one has ever got 24mbit sync speed in the whole world?

Dave2150 · 1 May 2006 at 01:11

BruceLee said:
Yeah the girl mentioned when I asked, but Im not that bothered these days, just I may be moving soon but that shouldnt be a problem.

Im just not investing a lot of confidence in her taking my details correctly, has anyone else rang and asked to upgrade?

At least the good thing is you get a ethernet modem as the USB one annoys me.

I take it this is ADSL2+?

Yes, ADSL2 only goes to 12mbit, so anything >12mbit = adsl2+

crashuk · 1 May 2006 at 01:36

i was with bd service is good cs and billing are crap so i moved over last year, since sep 2005 i have 24meg ie 19 meg down and 1.6meg up

all for £20.

18962.7 kbps i get but it does go down to 15000 kbps, some times

I'd be looking for a more guaranteed source, like http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test

took me 55 secs to dl that 100meg file and about 3 or 4 secs for the 10meg file.

Hamster · 1 May 2006 at 07:28

Dave2150 said:
Maybe because no-one has ever got 24mbit sync speed in the whole world?

Not strictly true. There is one chap who posts on adslguide that gets a sync speed of between 23.5Mbit and 24.2Mbit but i think he lives extremely close to his local exchange. I believe he is with UKOnline.

It is true that very very few people will see speeds like this though.

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tolien · 1 May 2006 at 10:47

Dave2150 said:
Maybe because no-one has ever got 24mbit sync speed in the whole world?

Don't see anyone advertising services based on ADSL (including Max) as up to 7.2Mbps, nor the other LLUers using ADSL2+ (including UKO, who evidently think they can get someone into the 16-22Mbps chunk)... :shrug:
Though Bulldog, the moral ISP? Ahahahahaha

It's moot anyway:

Marmoset said:
It is quoted somewhere on the Bulldog website that speeds higher than 16Mbit are possible if your line length and quality from the exchange is good enough to support it