Broadband Speeds in N. Ireland

blueberrypie

It will also depend on how far you are from the exchange. My ISP contract is for a connection which is up to 8mb, but my actual connection is for 1mb, because even a 2mb connection is extremely unstable, thanks to us being well away from the exchange.

Bigcammy

Belfast BT5, so much for my 8mb UTV Internet rubbish connection

cooki2222

BT36

says i am 997m from the exchange

chunter

I don't understand the logic here. If you're all on the same package, your broadband speed is defined by (amongst other less important things) how close your line is routed through to the exchange.
But you're not. It's apples and oranges.
What difference does it make what town you're in?

Pretani

chunter wrote: »

What difference does it make what town you're in?

I don't think it does matter.

If those with the high download speeds could post how far they are from the exchange, it might give us a more accurate reflection of speeds

Rab44

Up until about 10 months ago I was with those Virgin crooks. Speed was never ever above 0.5mbps, usually just under 0.4. They kept claiming it was the max limit for my line and blamed BT. Got my MP to write to them and the reply was just something to behold; they said to read the small print which stated that up to 8mbps legally meant they could supply anything from 0.1mbps up to 8mbps so therefore 0.4mbps was well within the legal limits. I changed instantly to BT. Speed has never fallen below 7mbps and is normally the full 8mbps, and they are significantly cheaper than Virgin and everybody else. My exchange is Millisle.

agal

I'm 3km from exchange (Cross)
The ISP is one of the Entanet resellers (ADSL24)
£28.90 pm for 60 Gb + free unlimited extra downloads 12mn - 8am and all day Sat & Sun

mccoubd

chunter wrote: »

I don't understand the logic here. If you're all on the same package, your broadband speed is defined by (amongst other less important things) how close your line is routed through to the exchange.
But you're not. It's apples and oranges.
What difference does it make what town you're in?

The reason I asked for the town is simply to give an indication of the speed in that area with that particular ISP.

For example Talktalk have been bombarding me with offers recently after I made an enquiry but I knew a few talktalk customers in my area and none could get speeds above 0.8.

So if anyone is getting speeds of 4 meg and upwards and are based in the Carrickfergus area then I would consider changing to that ISP.

So the town you are based in makes a difference if you are going to use the information to make a decision as to what ISP offers a good service relative to that area.

sunshine

mccoubd wrote: »

The reason I asked for the town is simply to give an indication of the speed in that area with that particular ISP.

For example Talktalk have been bombarding me with offers recently after I made an enquiry but I knew a few talktalk customers in my area and none could get speeds above 0.8.

So if anyone is getting speeds of 4 meg and upwards and are based in the Carrickfergus area then I would consider changing to that ISP.

So the town you are based in makes a difference if you are going to use the information to make a decision as to what ISP offers a good service relative to that area.

I'm in Carrick, at present with BT and getting around 6 kbps on average. I'm just over 1 km from the exchange. We were thinking of changing to Sky - to have the television as well. Don't want to lose out on the pretty decent speed at the minute though.

DesG

I'm in Lisburn



Cheers, Des.