Utility Warehouse (Telecom Plus) Discussion

penrhyn

Welcome to the forum and the best of luck with Talk Talk.

Emanuele_Ciriachi

Talk Talk?

penrhyn

Emanuele_Ciriachi wrote: »

Talk Talk?

UW's internet is provided by Talk Talk business, formally Opal Telecom.
Or at least it was last time I looked.

NigeWick

Emanuele_Ciriachi wrote: »

What concerns me, at the moment, is the broadband speed

If you're on an ordinary line like me, the speed will depend on your distance from the exchange. "Up to 24 meg" means that will be THE maximum you could expect down hill with the wind behind you if actually in the exchange. I'm a bit under mile from the exchange as the crow flies and got 7.5 - 7.9 meg with Utility Warehouse. I am with Sky at present and get between nine and ten meg with a much newer router.

Emanuele_Ciriachi

penrhyn wrote: »

UW's internet is provided by Talk Talk business, formally Opal Telecom.
Or at least it was last time I looked.

Interesting.
Is this kind of information about "who owns who" publicly available somehow? I'd say one has to investigate with a bit of effort to get to it.

Emanuele_Ciriachi

NigeWick wrote: »

If you're on an ordinary line like me, the speed will depend on your distance from the exchange. "Up to 24 meg" means that will be THE maximum you could expect down hill with the wind behind you if actually in the exchange. I'm a bit under mile from the exchange as the crow flies and got 7.5 - 7.9 meg with Utility Warehouse. I am with Sky at present and get between nine and ten meg with a much newer router.

I know; as a matter of fact, I am 0.9m from the exchange, and a website (I think it was cable.co.uk) told me I should be getting something on the range of 7 Mbits.

When I was living in Catford, I was 0.8m from the exchange and I was getting 8+ Mbits - with a dynamic IP that changed so rarely that I could use it to host game servers without any trouble. Boy how I miss that now.

penrhyn

Indeed, UW's energy is provided by RWE Npower.

Emanuele_Ciriachi

Also, since I'm here I'll throw a semi-related question on the thread: which settings in a router configuration can I play with in the hope of affecting performance?

penrhyn

Not much you can do with the router, best to find out how to obtain its line statistics, and how to interpret them. Plug it into the master socket and ensure that any extensions are filtered, or better still use an ADSL faceplate. eg. http://www.amazon.co.uk/BT-Telephone-Broadband-Filter-Centralised/dp/B003V7782M/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1360577101&sr=8-3

Emanuele_Ciriachi

Thanks penrhyn (11k+ posts, wow!), never heard of an ADSL faceplate before - will definitely consider getting one.