Moving to countryside with max 1Mb, ISP reccomendations

ScoTTyBEEE

ScoTTyBEEE

ScoTTyBEEE

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Hi all,

I'm moving to a country property on Tuesday and wish to hear of any reccomendations for ISP's.

I tested the internet connection they had which was ADSL with 24Talk, which seems like a crap company and it came in a 0.1Mb, so 1000x times slower than what I currently have :(

There is a second BT line coming into the house so I think I'm going to go with Zen Internet with their 200gig per month package, as even if I get 1Mb I'll have to stop watching HD stuff and I doubt I will go over that. They also have a 1 month contract and I've heard good things about them so I think if anyone can get the best speed possible it will be them.

I have considered the TwoWay satellite broadband, but at £65 for 50gig I'm not sure I want to fork out for that, plus I would need the ADSL on top of that low pings for gaming.

Anyone else been in this position and can recommend a company to squeeze the most out of very little?

Thanks.
 
Oxy said:
You just can't get any LLU stuff, may as well go BT?
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OK that seems to make sense then if its BT involved in the essential bit of the process anyway. People aren't particularly complimentary about them but I guess I have no choice in their involvement right?
 
Thing with BT they have a mature and tested platform so when everythings working fine its all good (and a better chance of things working fine than many other ISPs) the problem is when things stop working fine they are dire and I've had to go directly to the CEO twice to get fairly simple issues resolved. (They do get sorted pretty quick once escalated to executive level complaints but they shouldn't have to be escalated that far to get them sorted).
 
KIA said:
You have plenty of choice. Have a look at Zen, IDNet & ADSL24 if you want a quality provider.

The BT wholesale checker should give you a realistic speed estimate if you whack in the address. https://www.btwholesale.com/pages/s...unity/Coverage/ADSL_Availibility_Checker.html
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Thanks for that. It seems to be the first checker that doesn't tell me the postcode and phone number don't match. Says good for 512k but can vary. If I can get 1Mb I don't mind, 1/10th of that would be almost unusable.
 
my line length is 4.4km and my sync speed is 3777kbps giving a 3mb speed, you just have to hope you get a good BT engineer on the day who will spend a bit of time for you looking for the best BB line the green box has available
 
Welcome to Norfolk! I am just the other side of Aylsham to you and also suffer with a 6km+ ADSL line and no prospect of getting FTTC for years :(
I have Zen on the Aylsham exchange and just manage to get 1.5mb down but have more than one ADSL line on a multi wan router.
 
Yes but it means I can leave one line downloading and still have the other line for using the internet without it lagging out.
 
ScoTTyBEEE said:
Thanks, says:

BT Recorded Line Length to Exchange (m): 3720

Could be worse right?
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Assuming no major quality issues on the line, that the exchange equipment is reasonable kit rather than something they've dumped out in the sticks to die, etc. you should get around 5Mbit on that with a good router like the Netgear DG834GT (may need a little tweaking on the SNR margin target).
 
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hehe my parents live in Suffolk and they have had FTTC activated!

Moving to BT for 65mb from 2.5mb currently.

I have BT 90mb bb down in the south east, it will be a joy to go home and have fast internet for steam games and linux distro downloading.
 
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