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Swifty55

Swifty55

Swifty55

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Hey guys!

I'm currently on Virgin Media, and are now doing my nut in, slow speeds and terrible customer service. I'm going to cancel my Broadband with them and go to ADSL. BE broadband has just currently been set up at my local exchange, which is roughly 2miles away (5mins).

Can anyone shed some lite about BE and getting a phone line installed for ADSL? As my parents want to keep Virgin Media TV and Phoneline, but I'll need a BT phone line installed. Is that possible?
 
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Hmm, that's kinda my only option, as Virgin Media just keep saying "It's fine on our end" or "It's your PC".

Is ADSL generally better than cable anyway? Always read up people on ADSL always have a better connection than Cable.
 
From around 3pm to 1am, I get slow speeds, high pings and lots of packetloss. Currently on 4mb.

It's nothing todo with my PC, as the internet is fine after that, so it's got to be a network utilization problem. Which Virgin Media don't know when they're fixing it.

Frankly, That's the only times I use the internet, and i dont think i should be paying for such a poor service.


*Edit* The ADSL i'm looking togo with is Be* Unlimited.
 
Yeah, I figured loads of people are using the same line as me, but Virgin Media should do something about this.

I just need to know how much it will cost for a BT line, to go ADSL.



Can anyone please shed some light? As I'm clueless about ADSL. :(
 
Just found out that the local exchange I'm connected to, doesn't support BE* Broadband. It's also estimated at 3.5Mbs. " />



"According to BT Wholesale, your line should be able to support a 3.5Mbps or greater ADSL connection via ADSL Max, you are approximately 2.86km from the exchange (straight line distance)."





So basically, I'm going to get *spoon* internet with any ISP.

FFS.
 
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