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MSE slowest broadband contest

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  • Kite2010
    Kite2010 Posts: 4,311 Forumite
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    JabT wrote: »
    My first attempt at this so if it works it'll be a miracle!

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    woohoo it worked, I've learnt something new today!

    And what is your speed meant to be?
  • GRM
    GRM Posts: 645 Forumite
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    This is the best ours ever gets :-/ 5km from the exchange, attenuation is 68dB.
  • JabT_2
    JabT_2 Posts: 116 Forumite
    And what is your speed meant to be?

    No idea but according to BT broadband checker 1.0MB.
    I'm about 3.5 miles from the exchange.
  • ChiefGrasscutter
    ChiefGrasscutter Posts: 2,112 Forumite
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    Even if BT roll out fibre to the street box.....
    In rural areas it often that last mile of cable to the house which is the real problem.
    Ususally it will have been laid direct in the ground not in ducts - so everything has to be excavated, it will be 1950's vintage and best of all it may well be aluminum rather than copper cable - 'cos it was cheap then.
  • globalds
    globalds Posts: 9,431 Forumite
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    I don't know why I went and posted that .......I think just because I can :p
  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    edited 9 January 2011 at 10:16PM
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    ETA I'm miles & miles from Morecambe, isn't that in the west country?

    And I pay well for it too, about £16 from AOL. I'm in that small % of areas that can't get cheap BB, I'm on the old exchange.
  • fermi
    fermi Posts: 40,542 Forumite
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    MrsE wrote: »
    ETA I'm miles & miles from Morecambe, isn't that in the west country?

    Lancashire isn't it?
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  • MrsE_2
    MrsE_2 Posts: 24,161 Forumite
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    fermi wrote: »
    Lancashire isn't it?

    God you're right:o

    But a long, long way from me.
  • fermi
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    globalds wrote: »
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    I don't know why I went and posted that .......I think just because I can :p

    Show off! :p
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  • ts_aly2000
    ts_aly2000 Posts: 566 Forumite
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    It used to be faster, about 19Mb, and 1Mb upload. It's one of those new exchanges. BT on the same line you get 5Mb.
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