Hardware & Technical Your internet connection
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At the moment I'm connecting my desktop via an O2 pre-pay mobile broadband dongle... (and I'm not even in a 3G area - if I move the dongle 3 inches, I lose the 3G signal...)
The joy of living outside of a major city
The highest I've got is 89mbs in Bristol on my phone near the centre. Out where I live it's only 36mbs indoors (with 1 bar).
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best ping to London
best speed to London
I think the UK is still 3 or 4 years off this kind of speed
Assuming the big players sort out our infrastruture. Apparently a "twisted pair" is still "fine"
These are my own personal experiences:
Using Virgin at present and it is simply incredible, great customer service and its been a dream in comparison to other providers, yeah paying a little bit more but now on fibre and its freaking awesome.
Had a poor experience with BT in the past, and an even worse one with Talk Talk. Talk talk was cheap mind and if you are not dependent on a very reliable connection its worth considering but I do offer a warning.. Should things go wrong, you end up calling an Indian based call centre who do nothing but read from a script, they are utterly useless in resolving problems, often insulting, and when calling them for the 50th time and they start from the script again I can tell you, you are going to freak out.
Using Virgin at present and it is simply incredible, great customer service and its been a dream in comparison to other providers, yeah paying a little bit more but now on fibre and its freaking awesome.
Had a poor experience with BT in the past, and an even worse one with Talk Talk. Talk talk was cheap mind and if you are not dependent on a very reliable connection its worth considering but I do offer a warning.. Should things go wrong, you end up calling an Indian based call centre who do nothing but read from a script, they are utterly useless in resolving problems, often insulting, and when calling them for the 50th time and they start from the script again I can tell you, you are going to freak out.
Ah you, they direct you to India? In my country, they directs us to the Maghreb. I assure you, they are equally incompetents
ADSL to VDSL Switching today
Am in the process of changing to BT Infinity from Be.
The estimated speed in about 39 down and 6 up.
My business is in telecoms and we supply both lines and broadband - we don't deal with residential (don't need the hassle) but I could supply my own broadband.
But it makes more sense to keep the line with BT retail then there is one port of call if there are technical issues.
I know first-hand how "challenged" BT can be and a broadband service provider will always blame the line provider (and vice versa) if they are separate.
The estimated speed in about 39 down and 6 up.
My business is in telecoms and we supply both lines and broadband - we don't deal with residential (don't need the hassle) but I could supply my own broadband.
But it makes more sense to keep the line with BT retail then there is one port of call if there are technical issues.
I know first-hand how "challenged" BT can be and a broadband service provider will always blame the line provider (and vice versa) if they are separate.
Finally got my fibre connection up today. Only 5 months delayed, but speed is ok.
It should eventually settle at 50/50 when my ISP has done final adjustments, but right now it's magic.
Edit: Best ping to London. (Other servers had better bandwidth, up to 215 Mb/s, ping varied from 31 to 45 ms.)
It should eventually settle at 50/50 when my ISP has done final adjustments, but right now it's magic.
Edit: Best ping to London. (Other servers had better bandwidth, up to 215 Mb/s, ping varied from 31 to 45 ms.)
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I think the UK is still 3 or 4 years off this kind of speed
Apparently a "twisted pair" is still "fine"
Big players? You mean BT?
And on a Cambridge-based cable connection....
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Am green with envy (or maybe something contagious) , Like many others I am in a rural area with miles of overhead copper between me and a service/comms cabinet let alone the exchange.
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Still wouldn't give up the view or the game that wanders through my garden
ps :have no idea why Maidenhead is always lowest ping on test,as are several test servers closer to me
Still wouldn't give up the view or the game that wanders through my garden
ps :have no idea why Maidenhead is always lowest ping on test,as are several test servers closer to me