Who is to blame for rubbish BB speeds?

kwikbreaks

ComplexP wrote: »

Are you casting aspersions upon the good people of Slough?

I think he was casting aspersions upon the bad ones... :cool:

frontman

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I used to work in Slough. I well recall the phrase "Happiness is Slough in your rear view mirror" but forget who coined it.

I dont mind people slagging it off, its when you say "where you from then?" and they say "Braford/Birmingham/Manc/Leeds etc.". No difference at all then. Except they get decent broadband speeds there.

penrhyn

I used to enjoy my visits to Hewlett Packard on the Slough trading estate years ago, prior to their move to Winnersh.
BTW How are things at Wernham Hogg?

kwikbreaks

I wouldn't slag off Slough - the crappy company I used to work for there (they bought out the decent one I chose to work for) moved to the Winnersh Triangle. Now that really is a !!!! hole.


Ahh ^... it wasn't HP

ComplexP

kwikbreaks wrote: »

I think he was casting aspersions upon the bad ones... :cool:

A good point. I was referring to a non-existant subset.

dylanuk

frontman wrote: »

Part of my concern though is that I cannot further optimise the connection speed, BT already THINK they only provide 512Kbps on my line, when actually I get on average 2Mbps. So if my supplier quotes a max of 512k, how on earth can I optimise that up to the min. 8Mbps that I actually need? (Rhetorical!)

Maybe this has already been said - apologies if any of it has - but why not check your estimated line speed with other providers? Most providers will give this when you check availability on their site (try O2/Be, Plusnet (should be the same data as BT), Sky, TalkTalk). (Be aware they might phone you back as you'll have to put your phone number in to get an accurate line speed.)

If BT are reporting 512Kb and you're actually getting 2Mb - that's definitely the wrong way round - so it doesn't really add up, I'd be checking the speed estimates of other ISP's to find out.

And / Or if you've got really poor quality of cables from your house, usually cable problems are in the 'last mile', and FTTC wouldn't always remedy this - can you get Virgin instead?

kwikbreaks

What on earth does it matter what other ISP speed estimates might be? They all deliver over the same line so the achieved speed will not change.

He's already said he can't get cable.

FTTC takes the fibre to within a few hundred yards of the premises so it most certainly would improve the speed for somebody with a 4 mile long line.

pau1rs

Do you run your router from your nte5, or a extension, any missing filters or alarm on the line,

all these can effect speed, but with your loop att at 56 db your not going to ever get7 meg,

i find that a good 70% of jobs with regards to speed issues are customer relateg to there equiptment,,

another idea is to remove the bell wire from any ext you have, which should help aswell..

good luck....