Internet Woes... What to do

Conanius

Conanius

Conanius

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Righteo,

I've just about had enough of the 'Service' I get from VM, and I'm trying to work out my options. I think they are

A) stay with them and man up
B) stay with them until September when I can get FTTC, and go to Sky/BT/whoever
C) kick up a huge stink to go with my other ongoing complaints and open issues and try and get out early, go with a provider that will offer fibre, and transfer over once I can get FTTC

So, Option C is best for my sanity, but I have a problem. Speedtest sites recon we can get only 1.4-4MB at our location. 4 Wouldn't be the end of the world, but 1.4 wouldn't allow us to use Netflix as I understand things. This is not good news !

If I can go down option C, how would you handle it? just go with Sky and get a funky phone baseplate and modem and hope for as close to 4 as possible?. The phone line comes into the house off a telegraph pole and literally through the wall into a socket, there can't be more than a meter of cable, so I'm hoping the chance of a decent connection with wiring I can control should be reasonable.

What would you all do? VM just can't seem to fix our problems so I'm almost totally given up on that option.
 
D) If they've put up prices recently, you can leave without penalty by refusing the increase.
 
Not really. My line estimate was 3-6 and I used to sync at 6.5, so it depends on the line itself.
 
Ok thanks for that EVH.

I'm going to look into my options with Sky then. Any idea if there is a 'good' modem to use to try and get the best performance. I've got Apple Airport extremes as my current router/wifi provision at home, so keen to continue to use them
 
Hi MissChief

Sounds like an option, I guess I'd just have to configure the Airport to use the Sky Router as the gateway, and if possible turn off DHCP to stop it handing out IP addresses.
 
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