BigMouth Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 Wifey. Have you thought about wireless? Choose you own wireless modem/router. As long as you don't live in an old croft house you should get good reception throughout the house if you site it sensibly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifey Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 BigMouth, I'm already wireless via a Netgear DG834G. I works well (wired for an iMac, wireless for a MacBook) so I don't really need the BT Home Hub. However, I'm quite interested in BT Vision when that comes out later this year and I would need their Home Hub for downloading TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted October 28, 2006 Report Share Posted October 28, 2006 Im guessing they are going to up peoples bandwidth limits when all this IPTV stuff comes out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArabiaTerra Posted October 29, 2006 Report Share Posted October 29, 2006 Is anyone getting speeds of more than 2.2Mb/sec? I am with TalkTalk who charge £10 /month for broadband (the free offer is not available up here yet) if you also sign up for their phone service as well. They claim their service is 8Mb but I have never seen more than the 2.2 I got with BT. When I queried this they said I was getting the max that my exchange could currently deliver and that I would automatically be upgraded when a faster service became available. I can't reccommend them as yet as their customer service is crap (typical Indian call centre or 10p/min helpline) and I have heard terrible stories of delays in getting connected due to the massive over-subscription to their free offer. I missed that as I signed up before the offer was announced so got priority as an existing customer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pooks Posted October 30, 2006 Report Share Posted October 30, 2006 Is anyone getting speeds of more than 2.2Mb/sec? I am with TalkTalk who charge £10 /month for broadband (the free offer is not available up here yet) if you also sign up for their phone service as well. They claim their service is 8Mb but I have never seen more than the 2.2 I got with BT. When I queried this they said I was getting the max that my exchange could currently deliver and that I would automatically be upgraded when a faster service became available. Exchanges are currently being upgraded to support MaxDSL (upto 8 meg). I thought that most of Shetland had already had the upgrades but maybe not. Even with MaxDSL, your distance and quality of line from the exchange will affect your final speed. If you were getting 2 meg before MaxDSL then there is a good chance that you will get a pretty high speed from MaxDSL (5 meg+) when it becomes available to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifey Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 Well, I didn't get anywhere with Demon. They just fobbed me off when I told them my maximum speed had been 468kbps - they said there was nothing wrong as far as they were concerned. So I gave them the push and went with BT instead. I figured if BT is my ISP they are the only ones to blame for poor speeds and they can't pass me to someone else. So today I set up my shiny white Home Hub (matches the iMac - very nice!) and low and behold - I'm getting 1.7Mbps. Much better than I was getting but still not quite the speeds they have in town. But I'm so excited with this new found speed I don't care too much at the moment! I still don't know anyone else in Gulberwick getting faster than 512kbps (except me, now). Surely it can't be that you only get high speeds if you're with BT? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Njugle Posted November 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 There is the 'urban folklore' that whenever bandwidth becomes an issue BT will reduce the allocation to any other service provider and retain their own bandwidth, which would alledgedly contravene any arrangements they hold with the other ISPs. No smoke without fire, perhaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peeriebryan Posted November 7, 2006 Report Share Posted November 7, 2006 ^I was told that is the case by a BT engineer I certainly makes sense for them to do so BT oversubscribe the allocation regularly, but BT customers seem to be affected far less often than other ISPs who are forced to use BTs infrastructure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twerto Posted November 8, 2006 Report Share Posted November 8, 2006 I have never used Bt myself out of principle more than anything.. but out of the people i know that use BT ( smacks head on desk smilie ) have alot more problems than I have ever had. admitadly it is only about 5 or 6 ppl that all live in cities and are havign to deal with road works digging up there lines etc.. but one issue was a BT enginner ahd left a monitor on this guys line after checking it.. this monitor cut the connection every 15 minutes whiel it does another sequence of checks.. so my mate ended up not beign able to do anything.. for abotu 2 weeks till BT finally owned up that there was a problem and sent another engineer out to check the line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Taken from another thread: Is anyone else have trouble with their BT Broadband??? Mines seems to work, but then it kinda drops and it times out the whole time.. it's just started very recently, like the past couple days.. ??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifey Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Me too. Since Wednesday it is intermittantly slow or can't connect to some sites at all (Shetlink is one it is having trouble with). But sometimes the speed is as fast as normal. I've connected my Hub via ethernet (it's usually wireless) and that made no difference. I'd assumed the Hub was broken but maybe it's a wider network problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Me too. Since Wednesday it is intermittantly slow or can't connect to some sites at all (Shetlink is one it is having trouble with). But sometimes the speed is as fast as normal. I've connected my Hub via ethernet (it's usually wireless) and that made no difference. I'd assumed the Hub was broken but maybe it's a wider network problem. I should've mentioned the problem was in Lerwick but yeh, I am in exactly the same position. I connected to my ADSL router via Ethernet, hard wired and although some sites seem to be working, others like Shetlink/Amazon seem to be intermittent. Good to know I'm not the only one, I know my configuration is correct - perhaps something to do with the NAT on the exchange? I have no idea really. Will get onto BT today - should be a barrel of fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wifey Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I've phoned BT and they said there's a fault on the line. They couldn't tell me if was just me or all of 01595 but they're on the case, apparently. He said it will be fixed within 5 days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trout Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 Shetlink was down on Wednesday around teatime. This was due to the server we are hosted on being maintained at that time. Though being aware of this going to happen, this information ended up never getting passed on to Shetlink users for which we apologise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mario Posted November 24, 2006 Report Share Posted November 24, 2006 I've phoned BT and they said there's a fault on the line. They couldn't tell me if was just me or all of 01595 but they're on the case, apparently. He said it will be fixed within 5 days. You gotta love BT eh, they said the same thing to me. 5 days is a long time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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