Broadband speed

[MuckleJoannie]

You could look at some of the replies here

 

http://www.shetlink.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4016&start=250

[sga]

Sorry I was in a bit of a hurry when I posted this last night. I did look at that thread but the first couple o pages were from 2007. I've read it all now and there is some good info there. You can delete this thread if you want. Cheers.

 

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[sga]

Just wondering if anyoneone here has the Post Offices broadband and phone package and if it is any use. I'm looking to change from BT and want to know which ISP's are good for gaming. Currently its a choice between talktalk, plusnet and the Post Office.

[Rubber Ducky]

I've had Post Office broadband for around 6 months now, pay £20 a month for unlimited use on 12 month contract. No complaints really, its reliable and fast.

[khitajrah]

Look at that ping!!

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/735399753.png

 

http://www.pingtest.net/result/11687490.png

[canuck]

Frustrating it is. I know, I was there. I am here now and can stream.

[Marvin]

Look at that ping!!

 

 

Try moving your router to the main phone socket in the house. It might be your internal phone wiring.

[khitajrah]

^ Wouldn't that mean that the connection would be consistently bad? I don't know anything about these things, but I will suggest it to the fella to try. We only have the one phone socket, and there is an extension running from it to the pc in the eldest's room, and the laptops run off the wifi from that.

 

Today it's fine:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/736579801.png

 

There is no rhyme nor reason to it!

[Medziotojas]

Still not great, but this is the fastest I've ever seen it in Billister:

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/756324051.png

[Spinner72]

I've been with BT for a few years now for both the phone and broadband. I cant really fault them with their service but I do think it is far too expensive. When you add up the line rental, broadband and all the rest it comes to over £70 a month. I see that the Post Office are offering a phone and broadband package for only £25 a month and that includes line rental.

 

Be wary of those offers. I was with Tiscali for a while and what was included was *their" line rental charge. I still had to pay BT about £17 per month over and above my intenet and phone package.

 

AFAIK this goes for any alternative to BT (Definitely Tiscali and AOL, from personal experience)

 

The main thing keeping with BT is that at least monthly I have to call them up due to a "fault" (usually the linespeed has been lowered to some stupd level) - if I wasn't with BT, I'd end up with ISP blaming them, them blaming ISP, and me getting nothing for my money.

 

Thats what has happened to family members on AOL anyway...

[hairyian]

......The main thing keeping with BT is that at least monthly I have to call them up due to a "fault" (usually the linespeed has been lowered to some stupd level) - if I wasn't with BT, I'd end up with ISP blaming them, them blaming ISP, and me getting nothing for my money.

...

 

On 'BT' Linespeed is controlled by BT Wholesale.

'BT' ADSL is via BT Retail

 

BT Retail, by law, has to talk to BT Wholesale using the same channels as any other ISP. Total myth that sticking with 'BT' will help get problems fixed either with your adsl or phone line. Getting poblems fixed is largely down to how good your service provider is.

[paulb]

i had a ping rate of 900 and download and up loads in the single 0.09 range is that just my computer or is the system playing up.

[khitajrah]

Mine is pretty good today.

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/757061314.png

[Spinner72]

BT Retail, by law, has to talk to BT Wholesale using the same channels as any other ISP. Total myth that sticking with 'BT' will help get problems fixed either with your adsl or phone line. Getting poblems fixed is largely down to how good your service provider is.

 

I'm afraid I had never heard of the myth, and this view is totally down to personal experience both of my own connection and that of the in-laws, not to mention being confirmed "off the record" by local BT employees

[DizzyKipper]

just got my net connection, had it for about 2 weeks. I'm using Plusnet, on their 1 month contract, so i could easily change it if it was rubbish. I went with them as they said they were particularly good at sorting problems.

 

I live 2 miles from the Sumburgh exchange, I was supposed to get 4mb but I appear to get 6mb. No disconnections yet. I've added about 30-40ms to my ping as far as gaming goes since moving to Shetland, but it doesn't make things unplayable, 70-80ms in cod4.

 

A few days ago I installed the BT iplate. It might help some people? If you have a master socket with a line across and an Openreach logo, you already have the iplate filter installed. If you have a line across and any other logo, you should be able to put the filter in yourself, takes 2 mins - easy! If you don't have a line across your socket, just a hole in the middle for the phone wire, then unless you know a friendly BT openreach guy it's likely to cost you £140 for a callout to have it changed (unless they find a fault on the line).

 

The iplate is cheap, although you pay more for postage i think for the benefits it's worth it. Even with no extensions it's supposed to help you. Read all the reviews.

 

[and no I don't work for BT ]

 

http://www.speedtest.net/result/758949968.png

 

(**mod edit ** - link added on request - http://www.shop.bt.com/products/bt-iplate---bt-broadband-accelerator-58LT.html)