Broadband Help

macman

Tesco would be a BT Wholesale service, like the one you are already on with VM ADSL. Sky and TT are LLU services. The other good option you have on there is O2.

manulike

Thanks, macman
Does that mean that for me, Tesco speeds would be equal to my current VM speeds and that if I switch to Sky or TT LLU - I will in fact get EVEN FASTER SPEED?
That is really good news!

macman

Not possible to say, but I'd expect the 2 BT-based ones to be similar. Given your LLU options, I would be looking at Sky or O2 on my shortlist.
I've always found O2's speed predictions to be on the conservative side.
But if you are happy with 10MBps anyway, is it really the crucial factor?

manulike

Many thanks, macman. You are right, of course.
I am just being greedy ;-)
Now that I have noticed that TopCashBack are doing a £101 cashback, the 9 months half price deal with SKY is soooo much more attractive.

steveE2

manulike
If you post your router stats we can give an estimate of your lines potential speeds.

manulike

Thanks, SteveE2
This is the list:
The following services are available in your location:

• BT Wholesale ADSL
• BT Wholesale ADSL Max
• BT Wholesale WBC (21CN)
• BT Wholesale SDSL
• BT FTTC
• AOL LLU
• O2 / Be LLU
• Bulldog LLU
• TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
• Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
• Edge LLU
• Pipex LLU
• Tiscali LLU
• Entanet LLU

Currently I have a Virgin ADSL connection through a

NETGEAR black box - IP address is 86.25.245.182

Download about 12Mbps upload around 1Mbps PING is 48


Not quite sure what you mean by "router stats" and where can I do such a check?
Thanks again!

macman

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/frogstats.php#34

manulike

Thanks, macman
My router is a Netgear DGN1000SP table top
I can not find it on the kitz site, but I looked at my NetgearWizard home page and this says:
"Wireless-N150 ADSL2 + Modem router DGN1000SP"
DownStream Connection Speed 20056 Kbps UpStream Connection Speed 1023 Kbps VPI 0 VCI 38
Not sure what I need to be looking at?

macman

Th additional stats needed are the Attenuation and the SNR margin.

manulike

forgive me, but I can not find either of those words / phrases on my Netgear Wizard, so I clicked on a randon Netgear router model on KITZ, with these results:
System Up Time 215:50:27 Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time WAN PPPoA 2063298 3092811 0 534 15063 76:06:54 LAN 10M/100M 10852664 7257245 0 2536 638 215:50:05
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed 20056 Kbps 1023 Kbps Line Attenuation 9.7 dB 3.0 dB Noise Margin 8.6 dB 14.8 dB