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Just tried and failed to move to BT

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  • hareng
    hareng Posts: 638 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    paulsad wrote: »
    I can't have vision tv as my upload at this address is only .5 meg (??????).

    I assume you mean download?

    I am 6km from the local BT exchange the most i am quoted on ADSL is 0.5meg download speeds. Used to have a fixed 1/2 meg line at one time. Later with several other providers had attenuation of 63.9db with ADSL, ADSL2+ 75db (LLU.)
    Even then couldnt watcha youtube small vid on 240p.

    As regards wanting to go from 2meg to 0.5 meg, the 2 meg is the capped limit bear in mind the FUP, throttling etc which could well be lower than 0.5 meg in reality.
  • spike7451
    spike7451 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    spud17 wrote: »
    In addition, although OP doesn't say, some of the old modems couldn't run at 10Mbps, max of 4Mbps IIRC.

    It was the old silver 100/200's IIRC.
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