Good internet possible from Land-line?

Ice Rich

Ice Rich

Ice Rich

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Hi all,

Moving into a different property soon and just looking at the internet connection.
I currently have Virgin Media Broadband but I know at the new address there is currently just a BT phone point.

I understand it is possible to have broadband from telephone point but is it any good? Don't know how practical it will be to have a virgin cable put in as property is old,

Thanks
 
I have internet through my phone line that is faster than any cable connection I've seen.

Depends where you live.
 
Gilly said:
I have internet through my phone line that is faster than any cable connection I've seen.

Depends where you live.
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What speed is that?

We had BB through our phone line and the speeds were terrible (4/0.5). Recently got cable last year and the speeds are 127/11 now
 
I've got bb through my phone line and have 20mb download and 1 upload. Before I moved I had the exact same kind of package and had 2mb down and 0.2 up. Completely depends where abouts you are.
 
Gilly said:
I have internet through my phone line that is faster than any cable connection I've seen.

Depends where you live.
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VM do 120 MB and are trialling 200MB currently.

sure the upload speeds aren't great but downloads are fantastic.

upload is usually 5% but areas are now being slowly upgraded to 10% of the download speed.

i used to be on 120MB and 5MB upload, switched to phone line and im now on 10MB and 1MB upload, im now 12 times slower at downloading and 5 times slower at uploading.

the only thing im worried about on my current speed is the upload, large family with a lot of devices:

2 smart tv's, 2 consoles, 2 sky + HD box's, a treadmill, 3 pc's, 2 laptops, 1 tablet and 5 smartphones.

would prefer if my upload was at least 2MB tbh, but for the money i cannot complain.
 
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