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Money_Grabber13579

Not sure if this should be on the internet board or here, but it sounds more Techie to me!

Firstly, our broadband is with talktalk and my actual speed is around 130kilobytes per second. We were told at the start that we'd get up 8megabits per second (around 1 megabyte per second I think!) That has since been changed and now states that average speed will be 1.76megabits per second which is a bit faster than I'm getting, but not overly I suppose.

My actual question is that BT are supposedly rolling 21CN WBN out at my local Ballymena exchange. Will this make my broadband speed any quicker? Or will talktalk not give this to me?

deanos

Is your Talk Talk via BT or on there own LLU equipment ?

Jaffa.

By the looks of it '21CN WBN' means you will be able to get 24MB so maybe your speed will increase up to the 7/8MB... who knows you'll have to wait and see

You have other factors aswell like attenuation and what not

Money_Grabber13579

deanos wrote: »

Is your Talk Talk via BT or on there own LLU equipment ?

I assume it's via talktalk because the exchange has been unbundled and I think it's talktalk's own equipment. It's due to go live on the 31st of March 09, so looks like its delayed a bit!

Money_Grabber13579

Jaffa. wrote: »

By the looks of it '21CN WBN' means you will be able to get 24MB so maybe your speed will increase up to the 7/8MB... who knows you'll have to wait and see

You have other factors aswell like attenuation and what not

But will that be for everyone, or just BT customers? Will talktalk hold back and charge extra?

weegie.geek

If you're getting 1mbit on ADSL, you'll be lucky if that increases much with ADSL2+.

At the kind of line length you must have, ADSL2+ doesn't perform much better unfortunately.

Money_Grabber13579

Some to sound unknowledgeable on this, but do I not already have ASDL2+?

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/exchange/NIBM

That's my exchange details and I'm only about 3km away as the crow flies. Will this speed my line up or is there anything I can do?

deanos

Ultimately its up to the ISP, Talk Talk charge for a "Speed Boost" to upgrade the speed

Money_Grabber13579

deanos wrote: »

Ultimately its up to the ISP, Talk Talk charge for a "Speed Boost" to upgrade the speed

That's very kind of them!:mad: lol What kind of speeds would I get from O2? I notice that they say up to 20mbps but I thought they were supposed to say what I could be expected to get?

DCFC79

Money_Grabber13579 wrote: »

That's very kind of them!:mad: lol What kind of speeds would I get from O2? I notice that they say up to 20mbps but I thought they were supposed to say what I could be expected to get?

you would have to call O2 to see what speed they can offer you, you thought about sky broadband or can you get cable broadband

Money_Grabber13579

No there's no cable in my area and I think sky wanted to supply phone line and sky TV, but we don't use sky TV so there wasn't any point in that! I'm an O2 mobile customer so I'd thought about the discount you see!