Anyone else's broadband slow today?

[rjs_essex]

Do I win?

I thought the winner was the person with the slowest connection I'm way out in poll position with 140Kb - What's the prize?

 

[bensdbensd is verified member.]

I thought the winner was the person with the slowest connection I'm way out in poll position with 140Kb - What's the prize?

Did you submit that post last night?

 

[rjs_essex]

lol, yes, and this post only seconds after your reply! :lol:

 

[GreyWing]

Must admit Virgin are pretty good, although their support is shocking now it's gone to India. Any problem and bang an engineer is coming out in 4 days time, anything to get you off the phone.

Not sure why BT never went for a full roll out of fibre optics? wonder what they are expecting to change in the future. There was talk of instantband a little while ago in Korea which is the next one up from fibreoptics?

 

[jimm]

Not sure why BT never went for a full roll out of fibre optics?

Probably because the government tax fibre.

 

[aZooZaaZooZa is verified member.]

Nightmare but normal for me:

 

[GreyWing]

Probably because the government tax fibre.

Didn't know that, so much for digital Britain hey?

Nightmare but normal for me:

Lol Dale,

 

[HariSeldon]

Or more locally, Hemel Hempstead isn't too bad.



Up until a few days ago I was sub 1Mb but this new O2 broadband rocks so far and is half the price I was paying Nildram for their slow as treacle offering.

It's a long way to come to get it, but there's pretty good connectivity in Tokyo

 

[crabfoot]

So - I'm still on my dial-up -


That's about as fast as dial-up gets, even if you change provider -


WTH you get used to it - but it shows you how people with a dial-up can get fed up of waiting for those flashy sites to load ...

 

[wbwb is verified member.]

Give me a shout if you want something better. I would put a pound on I can get you up to at least 1Mbps.
I get 1.5Mbps down and 480Kbps up on a line which BT say can only support 512Kbps down 256Kbps up. The advantages of running a proper network

Could do with improving TalkTalk as it's meant to be a lot quicker any ideas?

 

[jimm]

Could do with improving TalkTalk as it's meant to be a lot quicker any ideas?

Move to a better provider
Give me a shout if your willing to pay for quality.

 

[GreyWing]

Well my speed is still showing well but some pages are eratic in loading times, very hit and miss and some not resolving at all.

Looks like I spoke too soon about Virgin,

 

[stevef1fan]

My talktalk connection is pretty consistent - Perhaps not quite what I was promised at sign up, but not too shabby. They do throttle the old P2P though -

"Well Sir, I'm pleased to tell you on switchover day I can quite honestly promise you the earth. Indeed Sir. Now, lets start with your bank details."

 

[pendragonpendragon is verified member.]

Mine is very slow at the moment, esp. with ftp uploads.

I'm getting 4.85 download, 0.38 upload

 

[stevef1fan]

Has anyone tried the wifi from a Mcdonald's carpark ?

Any good ?

 

[SystregSystreg is verified member.]

:lol: @ Steve ^^^

 

[stevef1fan]

My biggest gripe with talktalk is their customer service 'line'.

10am:

'Click'

Delay...

'Good Evening Mr. Steve, How can I Help you...'

Arrggh.....


That was kind of the thing last time I rang it..

Two yoghurt pots on a very long piece of string would be more useful.

 

[denchomsky]

Considering I am on a Virgin Basic 10mb package this aint to bad -