[OSX-Users] Re: BT Broadband?

[Hugh Glaser]

Yep, the cables can be bad.
My ISP (I think it was onetel) were very good and tried really hard to fix
my rate - during the day it was fine-ish, but come weekends and evenings
(when contention climbed I guess) the rate dropped, actually because of
failed cable/hardware, not actual contention.
Onetel kept trying, but basically it was BT's cabling to and in my house
that was the problem (it still says BT, and doesn;t have a test socket which
tells you how old it is).
That's the bad news.
Good news is I switched to cable, even though I don't use their phone or TV,
and I get the full 10M or even a bit more any time I look.


On 12/11/2009 11:46, "m.c. schraefel" <mc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> 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
>> 
>> --
>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/cjg
>> 
>> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>> 
>> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
>> University of Southampton.
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