[OSX-Users] Re: BT Broadband?

[Kathryn Macarthur]

I have had only good experiences with Be (www.bethere.co.uk - excuse the garish website). Much cheaper than BT, and the customer service is much, much better.


On 12 Nov 2009, at 11:46, m.c. schraefel wrote:

> This is a common occurence for me with BT
> by all means complain and they'll check your line and tell you there's no problem.
> 
> If you want to give yourself a kick, do the check for the ultra high speed 20mb lines coming in and they'll tell you how much of that you can actually expect.
> 
> it is to laugh. so amusing what folks are able to claim "speeds up to..."
> 
> i wonder if anyone actually gets those speeds.
> 
> too bad instead of isp's being charged to go after port usage ofcom actually said that isp's had to post actual performance figures and standard deviations from the norm.
> 
> sorry. bt and high speed just seem to be at best ironic
> if anyone else has better experience with their isp (likely using bt's cables) i'd be happy to know.
> 
> mc
> 
>> Not until you've checked your kids aren't using bittorrent (or your neighbours)
>> 
>> Leslie Carr wrote:
>>> Any BT Broadband users, err, sufferers out there?
>>> 
>>> When I go home after work, my bandwidth is regularly down to less that 0.5Mbits/second (according to www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk ). At other times it gets to 5Mb/s (my practical maximum, apparently).
>>> 
>>> I expect to suffer some kind of degradation at peak times, but <10% of normal capacity seems a bit steep. Should I complain?
>>> --
>>> Les
>> 
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>> University of Southampton.
> 


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