Forum menu
0.125 mb/s Download speed for me today.
I think I may get dial up again, would probably be quicker
Anyone any slower?
I might have once seen 1Mb at home, maybe once. Usually hovers around the 0.5Mb region though.
IN THE STICKS (no more than 5 miles from one of the largest tourist cities in the east and allegedly near the silicon fens!)
fine here
[img] 
[/img]
Besthesda, North Wales:
[img] 
[/img]
Mine's poor today.
[URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2218876686.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2218876686.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
[img] 
[/img]
Dundee
Me its been down for two days.
Rang BT lines not with them, ok I have sky maybe the OH put it with them. Nope.
Doris is with THE POSTOFFICE.
Why didn't I think to ring them! Because they do letters.
Anyaway went down 4pm Monday took a couple hours to find who I am with. Then 3 phone calls to customer service? Who were crap.
Faults outside no need to visit. Get home toinight and they had to visit. USELESS.
Going back to BT.
[img] 
[/img]
Kent; just got suckered into Sky broadband, big mistake.
Not that BT was much better.
Don't think i'm in with a chance on this one...
[IMG] 
[/IMG]
[url= 
]crap compared to normal[/url]
[url= 
]Not very good[/url]
Obvious numpty question: How do I get the image to show?
[URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2219001295.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2219001295.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
Pretty standard day out our house. Village only a few miles away from Preston.
Check you sync-rate and signal/noise on your Router's control pages. A low sync rate can be caused by periods of line noise from poor filters or bad copper/exchange, or a sequence of disconnections. BT run an algorithm called ADSL MAX which they use to throttle-down your uplink rate when you have a line problem. Even after the problem is solved, the throttle is only relaxed after several days of "clean" lines. This makes diagnosis rather tricky!
😯
my god some people have awesome broadband... 16M down .8 up for me. And that's actually the best I've ever had...
Ping 84 download 0.63 upload 0.36 do I win?
[img] 
[/img]This is the excellent Orange Livebox results that I can handle while its free with my mobile but as from 22nd I have to pay, so its shop around time now!!
I think I am going to switch to someone who has decent kit at the exchange.
However BT told my wife no-one would be any better than anyone else.. I think that might be bs because it's a LLU exchange and other people have ADSL 2 instead of BT's ADSL Max (I think)
Issues with ours over the last week, 0.61mb/s with Sky Broadband at the moment!
Slower than 93% of the country here in rural Wales.
[img][URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2219133237.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2219133237.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL][/img]
Ours has been quite good lately, for "normal" broadband:
[img] 
[/img]
[img] 
[/img]
Not looking great, this is one competition that I take no pride in winning.
Not sure why I am hosted in London. Seems a long way away from home here in Scotland
[URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2219240436.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2219240436.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
wow some shite speeds there,how the hell do you watch porn? 😯
[img] 
[/img]
Moving soon but research suggests will be even slower. Great.
There is a fault which BT have said will be repaired by 9th Oct.
My landline was down yesterday. Called them on my mobile and spent 20mins going through options, being put on hold etc. Eventually got through to a call handler and the conversation went like this.
BT: What is the problem sir?
Me: My landline doesn't work, I have no dialling tone, I cannot make or receive calls.
BT: OK sir. I will need some more detail. Are you phoning from the line that is broken.
Me: Obviously not...
wow some shite speeds there, how the hell do you watch porn?
Forward planning....
We may have crap internet, but I have trails on my doorstep.
beefheart - Member
wow some shite speeds there, how the hell do you watch porn?
Forward planning....
We may have crap internet, but I have trails on my doorstep.
POSTED 58 MINUTES AGO # REPORT-POST
I guess 21st century solutions to same old problems. Didn't we all used to line up jazz mags ready for the money shot. Just do the same with open browser windows...
Thought ours was pish but looks like some people's is even worse
[IMG] 
[/IMG]
Ain't schadenfreude wonderful?! 😈
Download: 3981 kbps
Upload: 1718 kbps
Ping: 45 ms
Just did it again and got.
Download: 19.09 Mbps
Upload: 1.73 Mbps
Ping: 171 ms
[img] 
[/img]
Getting 4Mbs on the wifi at home.
26Mbs over 4G on the iPhone.
can't complain, out in the sticks on a BT landline..
[img] 
[/img]
[img] 
[/img]
The fastest it's ever been.
[img] 
[/img]
All depends how far I am from an island with a 3G mast.
Mine is fluctuating between 1.5 -2Mb/s ?
This thread makes me feel better. I thought I had it bad with ~4 - 4.5 Mb/s
I did get mine to improve considerably (from about 1.8 MB/s by
Removing the bell wire
Fitting a NTE5/a (which negates the bell wire fix IIRC)
Buying a Billion Bipac 7800n
Changing the SNR ratio setting on the Billion (currently 6, default is -1)
Each of these made an improvement and I did have the "leaps" in performance written down somewhere but I can't find them. If you've not done the above (the first two are free / cheap) it's worth googling as they're very simple to do. YMMV
^^^ This.
If you're having poor performance, it may well be the internal wiring isn't helping. Best to plug it into the BT Master socket for the rest of the house.
Certainly disconnect the bell wire, and all other extensions if not needed.
Conversely I'm stuffed for getting BT Infinity, as my phone line connects straight into the exchange which is pretty much next door ... rather than via a roadside cabinet.
This morning (4 miles from Reading):
[img] 
[/img]
This afternoon after Infinity install :
[img] 
[/img]
Happy days!
Currently having difficulties keeping within my 10GB data limit. I'm astounded I use much data as I do nowt more than looking at web pages.
[URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2223153466.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2223153466.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
I think I win for the slowest by far!
[URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2223200837.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2223200837.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
It's faster if I put the dongle in the front bedroom (by a factor of 3 for some reason) otherwise that's pretty average for the rest of the house.
3 mobile broadband, but using an old dongle, my parents new one is easily several times faster and better at picking up a signal.
Just under 2mb, not as slow as some on here but I am in London. Apparantly I am a long way from the exchange
Mine is due to be doubled soon
Fibre optic from Virgin. Its good, so far haven't had any of the nightmare customer service I've heard about, its been really good.
[img] 
[/img]
[URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2223328370.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2223328370.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
Sky, less than 2 miles from the exchange and it only works intermittently
If you're only 2 miles from exchange, ring Sky. They will try to ramp the speeds up manually. The Sky routers are designed to find the fastest speed that is reliable and keep it there. If there is a fault on the line during the test it will stop where ever it has got to. Mine did similar and I was stuck at about 2.5Mb/s, after call running at 17.8Mb/s at about 2.5 miles from exchange. Very happy with them, my parents are on same service but closer to exchange. They get 18.9Mb/s.
As for the reputation for Sky's customer services being crap, I have always found them very quick and friendly. Unlike Virgin, who it once took me 45 mins to convince I was a customer!
[img] 
[/img]
Mine, I can see the exchange from the house.
have a look her to see what speeds are available in your exchange
Received a txt this morning announcing that my broadband is now fixed
[URL= http://www.speedtest.net/result/2224248766.pn g" target="_blank">http://www.speedtest.net/result/2224248766.pn g"/> [/IMG][/URL]
Wow. From an F rating to a D rating
What a load of bollocks.