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| mse Member Since: 06 Apr 2008 Location: UK Posts: 5055   
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I would suggest it's more complicated...and add any 3G service is worse.
You get good results when a company has their kit in a Bt exchange...sky was good...but other than££ we never had a problem with Bt...but got faster speeds with sky Mike |
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11th Apr 2011 8:30pm |
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| daviec1 Member Since: 30 Nov 2010 Location: Ayrshire Posts: 246 
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We are way faster with Sky, and cheaper.
Something to do with more people on our exchange being with BT than Sky, so the "contention ratio" (??) is better with Sky (just now) But Sky are not so good with problems. Example, for the past 2 Fridays, have woken to no phone or Internet - first time, on to Sky to tell them. They do the normal trace which comes up inconclusive. meanwhile, I find out that the whole feckin underground cable has been nicked, knocking the whole village off. It takes about 24hours to fix, and all goo. Wake up on the Sat morning to text from Sky saying - we've fixed your fault. Same thing happened on 2nd week. Same thing with Sky, even though I told them the cables had probably been nicked. Aw well. 2001 TD5 110 DCPU in Bonatti Grey |
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11th Apr 2011 10:08pm |
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| RFT Member Since: 13 Nov 2010 Location: Cheshire Posts: 684 
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I have just cancelled DEMON
 (now part of Thus plc) who I have been with for years due to their speeds coming down whilst failing to bring the prices down. I have moved to BE Unlimited www.bethere.co.uk they have their own gear in our exchange their customer services are excellent and they are less than 50% of Demon. Try searching on internet for ADSL2 and the name of your local exchenge and you wil find who has their own equip in the exchange, most just piggy back on the old BT equipment and hece get poor speeds and low contension ratio (sharing bandwidth during period of high demand - i.e 3pm onwards once kids are home) 130 Puma HCPU with an Artica 240LR Demountable Camper |
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11th Apr 2011 10:12pm |
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| ken Member Since: 18 Aug 2009 Location: Banging Birds with my bitches !! Posts: 4328
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Hated BT on Cooper went Sky (just as pants) Now on BT Fiber way way different now the kids moan when its only 5meg each way
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12th Apr 2011 5:19am |
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| DefenderOfTheEarth Member Since: 09 Nov 2010 Location: Cornwall, UK Posts: 1304 
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Just had mine sorted - kept dropping all the time.
Turned out to be my router - the engineer supplied a new BT HomeHub 2.0 and wrote it down as a dodgy earth so no charge. Runs at about 3MB/s - not bad for this very rural location! Worth getting them onto it - but yes the call centres are very trying. Fibre on it's way here very soon. Defender 110XS SW gone... now VW California 180 4 Motion. |
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12th Apr 2011 9:53am |
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| custom90 Member Since: 21 Jan 2010 Location: South West, England. Posts: 20590
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I'm with AOL 100% reliable service and via wired router not wireless cxxp. Get pretty much 3.8MBPS consistent any time of day or night. Which I think is good (I'm out in the sticks) £15 - £16 a month you can probably find cheaper but what use is cheaper when it don't work properly or reliably. It's like comparing the Landy to a citroen
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12th Apr 2011 11:53am |
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| Hazza Member Since: 10 Jan 2011 Location: North Yorkshire / Leeds Posts: 222 
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my current BT speed...
Soooo SLooooooow Just noticed that it says that it's slower than 95% of GB, great! Might as well go back to dialup! Harry 1990 Defender 110 200TDI Camper - now converted to Td5 power |
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12th Apr 2011 6:22pm |
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| Paul_1978 Member Since: 08 Nov 2009 Location: South Yorkshire Posts: 384  
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Im on Plus Net, £22 a month with the phone and line rental, free evening and weekend calls.
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12th Apr 2011 6:32pm |
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| jst Member Since: 14 Jan 2008 Location: Taunton Posts: 8155  
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i am on BT. just changing to them from AOL my speed went from 2Mbs to 6mbs.
have had one problem which turned out to be the exchange they sorted it with 24hrs and phoned to confirm it was ok at the time and again 24hrs later to check all was still ok. very pleased with them. Cheers James 110 2012 XS Utility 130 2011 M57 bespoke Camper 90 2010 Hardtop 90 M57 1988 Hardtop |
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12th Apr 2011 6:48pm |
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| Lorryman100 Member Since: 01 Oct 2010 Location: Here Posts: 2686 |
I'm with BT and have been for years with no complaints so far!
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12th Apr 2011 6:48pm |
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| bpman Member Since: 21 May 2008 Location: Oslo Posts: 8069 
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just tried mine again today and get
gotten better after i called up and told them i was cancelling ... still not brilliant but better than 600k |
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12th Apr 2011 6:59pm |
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| WarPig Member Since: 04 Dec 2009 Location: Sheffield Posts: 1748 
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Im lucky/unlucky as I get free BT broadband as the wife works for them. I keep doing these speed check tests, but ive no idea what they mean..
And what the hell does this mean? [/URL][/img] |
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13th Apr 2011 3:32pm |
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| fekete Member Since: 24 Dec 2008 Location: Here on the other end of the computer Posts: 3626 
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Heres mine with Sky
NEVER TAKE LIFE SERIOUSLY. NOBODY GETS OUT ALIVE ANYWAY |
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13th Apr 2011 4:10pm |
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| mse Member Since: 06 Apr 2008 Location: UK Posts: 5055
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here is my sky
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1250347621.png but last night its lower. Not skys fault as the village only has crappy BT only exchange Mike |
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13th Apr 2011 4:35pm |
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