BT Broadband 1mb

[Paulsad]

Hi Rob – I’ve got the NTL equiv. and on the whole it is good but occasionally slows down like all the others when traffic on the net is heavy. These things are never as great as advertised.

[Paul Goodwin]

You realy notice the differance when downloading files from ftp sites ect. Web pages you may not realy notice the differance.

games will ping at the same speed as 128k up .

[Rodney Gold]

We have ADSL , it makes a huge difference with browsing and DL’ng huge mails , you wont look back . Well done Robert;)

[John Childs]

Broadband? What’s broadband?

Grrrrrr

🙁

[Gordon Forbes]

In reality you will achieve 80 to 85% of this
i did the same a while ago with Pipex at £28 sum odds a moth cost about £34 now if you get it.
You will find that it is now web sites that are slow to respond like this one sometimes whether is is you working in the background or amount of people on it I don’t know.

But if you play games it’s brilliant but it is noticably quicker than 500 mips

Goop.

[Steve Broughton]

quote johnchilds:

Broadband? What’s broadband?

Grrrrrr

🙁

Me too John have to wait till July 05!!!!!!!!!! but then it may not work because I’m more than 6km from the exchange??????? how’s that work??

[Brian Hays]

BT said the 6km thing to me too Steve, apparently I am 400 yds too far away 🙁 🙁

[Paul Goodwin]

I think they are doing tests to make the distance greater, so by next yr it may be ok for u

[Timmy Mallet]

Another route to go down is if you have a freind nearer a Broadband enabled exchange line of site from your premisses,you could link via a wirless link. My house is 1500mtrs away from my workplace, so I have Broadband at work and Broadband at home via the wireless link plus I can use the laptop anywhere arround the house via the wireless link…

Timmy…

[Mike Fear]

This is one of the things they never mention when trying to sell you the service – in reality, whatever quoted speed they say, you can expect to run at 10% of this most of the time – so 1mb will give you 100K download most of the time.

I have ADSL 512K at work and the average download is 50kbps – mainly the speed depends on the server you are downloading from – occasionally you may get really high dl rates, but in general 10% is about it.

Perhaps BT should advertise their broadband as being ‘up to 1mb’ so people arent so annoyed when its nowhere near !

One consolation though, it is the fastest connection you can get, even if not as good as they claim it is !

I would make sure that your antivirus is updated every day though, and that you get a good firewall set up – cos cable connections are always open, they do tend to be very susceptible to virus and trojan attacks.

[James kelly]

My mate lives on the outskirts of a nearby town. Last year, BT told him he couldn’t get broadband as he lives over 5km from the exchange. His daughter started grammar school in the town and she can’t get a buspass as she lives less than 5km from the school. The school is further away than the exchange! 😕

[Robert Lambie]

Thanks for all the replies everyone.. By the sounds of things I guess I’m probably pretty lucky even getting broadband never mind the upgrade.
I was a short while ago in the same boat as far as not being close to the exchange etc.
Was told it would be months then one day I get an email out the blue saying its here…
So wouldn’t be too worried about what they say as far as the length of time it will still be to get it.
On a different note, I have a close mate that works with BT and is pretty high up in sales etc. he went to seminar sort of thing and was told all sorts of stuff. Basically BT already have broadband and many other new high speed connections that 10 & 20 times faster than we get today. These have not been released and won’t be for at least
6 or 7 years. Not because they are not ready, simply because of marketing.
They offer it to us in dribs and drabs, teasing us with upgrades and more. Each time we dig deeper and deeper. I know this is just business strategy but makes you think… 🙄