Origin Broadband - any good

50Twuncle

marcosdjcm wrote: »

So I signed up to Origin when they had that killer "£172 for the year" deal in December.

What is the minimum acceptable speed an ISP can supply?

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/06/ofcom-decides-slow-broadband-speeds-mean-you-can-exit-contract-anytime.html
Would appear to be merely voluntary at the moment !
That said - prior to a year last January - I was still on ADSL and survived with a max 3Mbps connection !!
I am now on an 80Mbps fibre and connect reliably at 70Mbps every time !
The fact that origin are a member of ISPA doesn't help - the trade association exists purely for the benefit of it's members (ie ISP's)

boatman

RichyRich wrote: »

I've had a real nightmare with Origin Broadband.
He said he was looking directly at the OpenReach system and could see that the order was queued for the 27th. I asked why BT's system was showing broadband only and 25th and he said that BT say that to stop customers leaving.

I'd be just as concerned with BT's tactics, I doubt they are restricted to you.

marcosdjcm

50Twuncle wrote: »

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2015/06/ofcom-decides-slow-broadband-speeds-mean-you-can-exit-contract-anytime.html
Would appear to be merely voluntary at the moment !
That said - prior to a year last January - I was still on ADSL and survived with a max 3Mbps connection !!
I am now on an 80Mbps fibre and connect reliably at 70Mbps every time !
The fact that origin are a member of ISPA doesn't help - the trade association exists purely for the benefit of it's members (ie ISP's)

The speed doubled later today, I think it must fluctuate a lot in my area. Serves me right for being home on a saturday.

editor1

marcosdjcm wrote: »

So I signed up to Origin when they had that killer "£172 for the year" deal in December.

What is the minimum acceptable speed an ISP can supply?

If the figures you are showing are for the 17Mb ASDL2 service, now known as regular Broadband, then you must be close to the actual BT box to get a 8Mb download speed - my folk are a mile away and highest DL we get is 6Mb and that's with TalkTalk, PlusNet and now Sky - where I live in the sticks, if I could get 8Mb download I'd be in heaven, as it stands I'm in hell with no chance of a better service for another 12-18 months.

50Twuncle

editor1 wrote: »

If the figures you are showing are for the 17Mb ASDL2 service, now known as regular Broadband, then you must be close to the actual BT box to get a 8Mb download speed - my folk are a mile away and highest DL we get is 6Mb....

Don't you mean "the exchange....." rather than the "roadside box" ?
Prior to upgrading to fibre - I was on ADSL+ @ 3Mbps and live100yds from the box but around a mile from the exchange

teddysmum

editor1 wrote: »

If the figures you are showing are for the 17Mb ASDL2 service, now known as regular Broadband, then you must be close to the actual BT box to get a 8Mb download speed - my folk are a mile away and highest DL we get is 6Mb and that's with TalkTalk, PlusNet and now Sky - where I live in the sticks, if I could get 8Mb download I'd be in heaven, as it stands I'm in hell with no chance of a better service for another 12-18 months.

We don't even get 5 from PlusNet and are in a city, less than a mile (as the crow flies) from the exchange. Sky gave a regular 5 to 6.4.


8 on ADSL would be heaven.

50Twuncle

teddysmum wrote: »

We don't even get 5 from PlusNet and are in a city, less than a mile (as the crow flies) from the exchange. Sky gave a regular 5 to 6.4.


8 on ADSL would be heaven.

Is fibre available ?

marcosdjcm

50Twuncle wrote: »

Is fibre available ?

I should have paid double for Fibre, it was a dumb area to try and save money.

glider3560

This is the speed I'm getting from Origin:


I'm about 250m from the exchange.

BT Wholesale don't offer ADSL2+ here (only ADSL Max, i.e. 8 mbps). The LLU providers have gradually been arriving (TalkTalk, then Sky, now Vodafone) who all offer ADSL2+, but it doesn't give much choice of provider.

marcosdjcm

glider3560 wrote: »

This is the speed I'm getting from Origin:


I'm about 250m from the exchange.

BT Wholesale don't offer ADSL2+ here (only ADSL Max, i.e. 8 mbps). The LLU providers have gradually been arriving (TalkTalk, then Sky, now Vodafone) who all offer ADSL2+, but it doesn't give much choice of provider.

So that is ADSL2+? Do you think any other provider would give you a better upload? Or is that just the max of the line? My Upload is pretty shocking too.