[OSX-Users] Re: BT Broadband?

[Ben Hodgson]

It's almost worrying that a company like BT are allowed to control our  
country's comms infrastructure.

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On 12 Nov 2009, at 12:05, Hugh Glaser <hg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>>>
>>> Lead Developer, EPrints Project, http://eprints.org/
>>>
>>> Web Projects Manager, School of Electronics and Computer Science,
>>> University of Southampton.
>>
>
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