On Plusnet fibre to cabinet (FTC) and get around 30mb down ( has been high as 50mb) and 8 mb up
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Awful....can't wait for another option
Sky get it sorted
I really hate it when the evening traffic slows my line down slightly.....
in the country, swapped from BT to Orange and have had a speed increase to all of 2.3...
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Arrghhh
1.32 Download
0.38 Upload
54 Ping
Welcome to Somerset
I'm not too happy about the slow upload speed!
BT 80Mb Infinity :-)
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Virgin graciously gives me 1.6mb download speed. And we live about 200 yards from the exchange. Costs us £28 a month. Am being ripped off but it's the price you pay for not being a townie.
Upgraded to BT Infinity1 now gone from 2.5 to 35 download on wifi on the same room as the router
Please can anyone answer a b-band technical question for me - whilst bearing in mind Im not a very tech savvy person?
I am on BT infinity with a wired connection between my mac and the router. I get about 42 mbs down and 5 mbs up, which is absolutely fine. The connection is seemingly problem free.
However...
Everyone else in the house is connecting wirelessly (from PCs and Macs) and cannot seem to get above 10 mbs download, but worse, its a very intermittent connection with the downloads freezing occasionally for no apparent reason and seemingly unrelated to any activity on the wired connection.
Any ideas as to what is causing this mismatch? - and what I can do to improve the situation? (Ive not yet rung the BT Bangalore outfit)
A lot will depend on the router. It should be a new-ish wireless 'n' version and that should allow for much faster transfers than you seem to be getting. There may also be interference from any number of other devices. Wired is always much better than wireless.
As i Said earlier On Wifi but in same room as the router
I live up on the moors in staffordshire and have recently upgraded to sky fibre. Currently getting 25mb down and 10mb up which I am very happy with
I have Virgin cable which runs into the house and connects to my office 15-20 metres away at the bottom of the garden via wi-fi. Although I have a reliable 100mbps in the house, I got 28 - 35mbps in the office until this week. I bought an external wi-fi antenna and mounted it on the office outside wall with an immediate improvement:
Here's details of the antenna if anyone is interested:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/2908664430...84.m1497.l2649
Eddie
Whole chunks of my life come under the heading "it seemed like a good idea at the time".
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I was on super crap 1.5meg down 0.3 up down the phone line until a local chap has set up a 'radio broadband' network for the village....
Its great! £20 a month gets me:
Cheers..
Jase
Hamish,
Virgin essentially don't do ADSL broadband, they sub it out to other, smaller service providers who let Virgin label their service. If you have ADSL and not DSL (i.e. cable or fibre) then i would suggest you go elsewhere for your BBand as i can guarantee that you're not getting value for money.
7mb which is not too bad but frustratingly even though we are shown as having Fibre and even BT wholesale confirms our actual address is connected from the box as well as the exchange we are told by Sky and the BT Infinity checker that we can't have it for another 6 months or more! Grrrrr!
BT Infinity - not bad at all!
My plain old BT broadband is an utterly consistent 12 down and 1 up.
Virgin Cable:-
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
I get ~10 Mb/s download. Certainly fast enough to watch Netflix etc. on TV.
What do those far higher speeds others are getting mean in practice - is there any real benefit?
Indeed. It must inhibit your search for chronoporn...
I'm getting 36.4 down and 7.6 up which I'm happy with, but what I'm not getting is the ranking - everyone else here seems to see A- and faster than xx% ratings, and I don't for some reason. Is it because I'm using a Mac, or is there a setting somewhere I'm missing?
this may help.
Try going into your router setup under wi fi settings and change your wi fi channel. it may be conflicting with someone next door.
if you are both on the same channels ie. 1 or 6 or 11 it will conflict.
so if you are on channel 1 change it to channel 6 or 11 and see if that helps.
when the routers are sent out they are all normally set to 1 or 6. you can get some software for free on the internet that shows all the routers and their respective channels in your area of your home, you will be surprised how many are on the same channel.
Give that a go and you should see an improvement.
Gary