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Castle Farm

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Dan

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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #1 on: September 03, 2015, 09:34:54 am »
Not entirely reliable. It says we can get superfast broadband up to 200MB/s from Virgin. In reality we can get 2MB/s (on a good day) from BT copper wire.  :(

Small Plot Big Ideas

  • Joined May 2012
  • North Pennines, UK
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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2015, 11:13:51 am »
I have to agree that this has only limited accuracy - it says I should be able to get up to 76Mbps but we're already on "faster" broadband from BT and while it's much better than before it's more like 15-20Mbps I think

Also, lower down the page at Right Move it says:

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The broadband information displayed about this postcode is provided by Point Topic and was last updated on 28/04/2014.

Rupert the bear

  • Joined Jun 2015
Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2015, 07:46:51 pm »
Ha ha ha , thats so funny.....  only supplier is BT  not the six listed  , as for speed of 1.1mbps quoted, I wish , but 448 Kbps down and 335 Kbps up (when its dry, no wind and a full moon ! ) down loading a sky movie takes a few days and is paused when we go online ....... 
How I miss dialup

Ghdp

  • Joined Aug 2014
  • Conwy
Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2015, 08:21:51 pm »
Have mainly abandoned BT and now on satelite. (Eye wateringly expensive but have no real option.)

john and helen

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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2015, 09:30:27 pm »
think we have the BT steam package  ;D post a pic and boil the kettle while it uploads

claire

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Falkirk
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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2015, 06:45:58 am »
in Falkirk on virgin. lightening speed, awesome!!

Kimbo

  • Joined Feb 2015
  • Anglezarke, Lancashire
Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2015, 11:53:03 am »
agree, its not accurate. Our speed is diabolical.
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fiestyredhead331

  • Joined Sep 2012
  • NW Highlands
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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2015, 12:00:30 pm »
we're stuck with BT, no-one else even pretends to provide a broadband service up here but my downlaod speed is 0.5mbps and upload is 0.2mbps  >:(
Fibre optic cable being laid 9 miles from us but not enough people here to warrant diverting some to us.
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Cosmore

  • Joined Jun 2015
  • Dorset
Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2015, 12:31:12 pm »
After 2 months (1 month with completely failed phone/internet fault) I've finally had line fault sorted out by BT and am back online. Now Max. speed supported on line 2.1mbps, average 1.9mbps. No hope of High speed broadband here - probably for ever unless by satellite!
The speed had previously slowly, as the (then) unknown fault developed, gone down to 0.16mbps at best, 0.05mbps at worst.
P.S. Actual line distance as measured by BT engineer on his clever device from me to exchange is 2 Km.
« Last Edit: September 05, 2015, 12:10:25 pm by Cosmore »

Backinwellies

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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2015, 12:45:02 pm »
Telling me I get average 1.1Mb ...........  with current BT speed test telling me it is currently 7mb that must mean most of the time it doesn't run at all!  In truth speed here is usually 4-5 which is OK for most things.
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moony

  • Joined Aug 2012
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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2015, 12:48:06 pm »
Says our average speed is 0.12mbps which is probably right as its incredibly slow at times. Not sure where it gets its list of suppliers from since only BT would entertain the idea.

Castle Farm

  • Joined Nov 2008
  • Hereford/Powys Border. near Hay-on-Wye
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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2015, 04:55:29 pm »
BT should charge by the amount of signal you get. I pay the same for a trickle as my son who lives in the real world pays for a flood.

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claire

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Falkirk
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Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2015, 07:47:42 pm »
when I worked in Dumfries recently I was provided with one of these, its was very good and more reliable than the BT connection.
http://www.three.co.uk/Store/Mobile_Broadband?id=1183&aidset=1#mifi

ramon

  • Joined Feb 2014
Re: Broadband Speed in your area.
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2015, 09:50:45 pm »
Phone line providers are supposed to provide functional internet access so these speed checkers always show that we can access some form of broadband. Reality is zero access here. Satellite broadband is our only option.
Don't have mobile phone access either unless I walk a quarter of a mile from home.
I lived in Scandinavia for some years and fast broadband access was available everywhere. The UK is way behind other countries when it comes to broadband provision!

 

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