Broadband Truth Campaign - Page 3

triggerhappy · 5th December 2007, 12:04pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djtoast

and yet your current speed is measured in kb per annum.

Ha ha ha, that is very true.

Quote:

Originally Posted by madvoice

Give the o2 one a few days till you do a speed test, you'll find you're speed will increase quite quickly. Did the give you an estimate of what you'llbe expected to get?

Why does it get faster after a few days?

They didn't give me an estimate, but I hope it'll be better than BT is currently - I might as well have dialup with the speeds I get

madvoice · 5th December 2007, 12:11pm

They can give you an estimate of what speed youwill get, I'll have a wee look next time I'm in.

triggerhappy · 5th December 2007, 12:15pm

Do you still work for them?

(also, are you going to steal my identity if you look up my file?

)

madvoice · 5th December 2007, 12:16pm

Yeah started at o2 in July. And don't worry, I won't steal it... maybe just sign you up for loads of junk mail

triggerhappy · 5th December 2007, 12:23pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by madvoice

Yeah started at o2 in July. And don't worry, I won't steal it... maybe just sign you up for loads of junk mail

Probably wouldn't make much difference. My flatmate and I are experimenting with not ever picking it up to see if we can actually fill up the space between the storm doors and the front door right to the ceiling with junk mail. Shouldn't take us more than a few days - bastarding previous occupants.

(I think it's actually more of a case that I think he's a lazy bastard for never picking it up and don't pick it up in protest and he thinks the same about me.)

Fallenblackrose · 5th December 2007, 12:35pm

My wireless is fairly decent, i cant haved a wired connection to everything, laptop downstairs and also my wii, my pc is wired to my router as is my 360 mind, not really noticed a difference in speed since it became virgin, also with that we test im pretty close to my 'up to' speed.

Screenager · 6th December 2007, 1:08pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by madvoice

Give the o2 one a few days till you do a speed test, you'll find you're speed will increase quite quickly. Did the give you an estimate of what you'llbe expected to get?

the dsl zone site i posted should give an estimate of the expected line speed ratherr than current line speed

other wise if you have any issues with that one the freeola availability check at

http://freeola.com/broadband/broadba...lity-check.php

will give you a decent potential on the line with just the number

dunno why but the freeola one has never ever gone tits up on me which is more than can be said for the bt speed checker

btw use both of these most days at work and in my experience both are pretty acurate for any line

triggerhappy · 6th December 2007, 5:47pm

Ok, here's the test pre-changeover to o2:

We're switching over tomorrow at some stage so I'll do another around the same time tomorrow evening, hopefully it'll be a bit less pathetic.

Edit: That was wireless, just tried it wired and got pretty much the same results.

triggerhappy · 8th December 2007, 1:26pm

Well, that is better!

triggerhappy · 8th December 2007, 1:51pm

Fucking yas. An 350mb episode estimated in 45 minutes.

With BT it normally took about a day and a half. I love my new broadband

**djtoast** · 8th December 2007, 1:56pm

?

i get them in twelve minutes on a good day.

(i knew you weren't outlast night cos you were downloading porn.)

right enough that is better than me though

karbon14 · 8th December 2007, 3:28pm

just retested mine

GoddamnElectric · 8th December 2007, 3:34pm

My '8meg' connection only has a max potential of 6.2, and I live 400m from the exchange. I suspect that may be something the Campaign is talking about - that many consumers cannot possibly get the 'up to' speed, even if you live practically next door to the exchange. It should at least be possible to get that advertised speed, and I don't think it often is. I don't care all that much though, after a certain point your connection speed is surely as good as you reasonably need.

Oskar · 8th December 2007, 3:38pm

My work one's no bad....

adrenalize · 9th December 2007, 2:46pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by triggerhappy

Ok, here's the test pre-changeover to o2:

We're switching over tomorrow at some stage so I'll do another around the same time tomorrow evening, hopefully it'll be a bit less pathetic.

Edit: That was wireless, just tried it wired and got pretty much the same results.

Thing to note is that O2 Is a LLU provider, But I switched mine over just after it launched and am getting 4.5-5meg constant now over the one meg I used to get.

And only £5 a month

On the original Issue, Its pretty hard for any ISP to give a reasonable indication of Broadband speed before it is up and running due to Various constraints, For one the line checker which gives the estimated speed to begin with comes straight from BT and has proven to be inaccurate in about 30% of Cases, With some people getting offered the fulls package when there line is only capable of around 8 or 9 meg. Also there are Situations completly outwith the control of them Like Internal wiring not being of the highest quality, Or people who plug there router into an extension socket rather then the master socket(I have seen drops of around 2-10mb because of ddgy extensions).

Then there is Quality of the lines themselve's, Even if you live next door to the exchange, your line may be degraded to the point where a lot of the signal is being lost due to noise, If that is the case, BT wont fix it as you are sill getting a perfectly good phone signal, so your actual speed will be much lower then what you should be able to get.

As long as it is explained clearly when ordering that an "up to" service speed is variable, then I really dont see what the problem is