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Problems with Broadband in Gulberwick  

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  1. 1. Problems with Broadband in Gulberwick

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^ Yea we got dumped by o2 too. We're with PlusNet now... we get 80g download from 8am-12am and then proper unlimited from midnight to 8am. The speed is great too, compared to what it was with o2. We even managed to stream the first episode of Ashes to Ashes on the iPlayer last night, something we haven't been able to do for a long, long time.

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/796900568.png

 

Cheers for the advice on this. I'm currently awaiting my router from Plus.net and I've been using sending @'s to their support on Twitter which has been great.

 

Should finally be off o2 as of Friday. And then I'll finally send back the router they've been pestering for! :lol:

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i wonder what sort of speeds we could all see when this optical cable has been hooked up? i have a few mates down south on optic cable broadband and one of them only gets speeds of 6/7Mbps down stream and another who gets about 30Mbps down stream. i hope we will have a decent speed!

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i wonder what sort of speeds we could all see when this optical cable has been hooked up? i have a few mates down south on optic cable broadband and one of them only gets speeds of 6/7Mbps down stream and another who gets about 30Mbps down stream. i hope we will have a decent speed!

 

It's fairly hard to say. Really depends on what kind of technology they use. They basically have two options. Fibre to Cabinet (which means you'll still have a copper connection from your house to the phone exchange) meaning you can only get around 40mbit.

 

However Fibre to home is theoretically limitless. But will cost a heck of a lot more and will mean you'll have to have a new fibre cable connected to your house. It really just depends on what they end up doing and how much money they're will to spend.

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MJ - Amazing !! I would not have thought you could get that speed anywhere in Shetland, have you tried using another speed test checker as a means of checking it ?

 

The speed I got on it, is similar to other speed checkers I have tried over the last few months, so I would think it's pretty accurate.

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I find this rather amusung too

 

http://www.pingtest.net/result/18279963.png

 

It seems to come and go in waves, maybe why I can't stream anything?

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/838277197.png

 

I lost the pingtest that had me line a D line quality. Watching the needles on these things is quite amusing. so any idea what's causing it to spike? pretty sure waas doesn't provide lines capable of these speeds. Me I just want to be able to watch Chuck...

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I find this rather amusung too

 

http://www.pingtest.net/result/18279963.png

 

It seems to come and go in waves, maybe why I can't stream anything?

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/838277197.png

 

I lost the pingtest that had me line a D line quality. Watching the needles on these things is quite amusing. so any idea what's causing it to spike? pretty sure waas doesn't provide lines capable of these speeds. Me I just want to be able to watch Chuckle brothers

fixed for you lol :lol:
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