tampered BB speed - keeping track
So what you're saying is that you refuse to pay for a service "up to 8Mb" or whatever, simply because you don't know just how much of that 8Mb you're actually going to get?
Welcome to the world of UK broadband.
I'd like to see a bit more of a variation, though. When you sign up to most ISP's they give you a (pretty accurate) estimate of what speeds you can expect, so I wonder why I pay as much for a line with a speed of 1Mb as someone with a line speed of 8Mb, or even 20Mb. It would seem fairer if prices were slightly more 'banded', so that people who get less than 5Mb pay a certain amount, while people between 5Mb and 10Mb pay a bit more, and people over 10 pay a bit more still.
Then again, I'm biased because we get less than 1Mb.
Welcome to the world of UK broadband.
I'd like to see a bit more of a variation, though. When you sign up to most ISP's they give you a (pretty accurate) estimate of what speeds you can expect, so I wonder why I pay as much for a line with a speed of 1Mb as someone with a line speed of 8Mb, or even 20Mb. It would seem fairer if prices were slightly more 'banded', so that people who get less than 5Mb pay a certain amount, while people between 5Mb and 10Mb pay a bit more, and people over 10 pay a bit more still.
Then again, I'm biased because we get less than 1Mb.
giro,
I think you are on a absolute loser here. You are getting faster speeds than many people who are paying exactly the same as you.
What you pay for is a connection and a transfer allowance - not a speed.
If you really pushed I think the best you would get out of Plusnet in the way of a guaranteed speed is that your IP profile will not drop below 135kbps!
I think you are on a absolute loser here. You are getting faster speeds than many people who are paying exactly the same as you.
What you pay for is a connection and a transfer allowance - not a speed.
If you really pushed I think the best you would get out of Plusnet in the way of a guaranteed speed is that your IP profile will not drop below 135kbps!
I've been watching the reports of problems on these forums regarding ADSL faults and speeds for a number of years. Every year as the days get shorter and the weather gets colder and wetter, we see more reports of speed problems and faults.
ADSL is a technology that was designed to get the most out of the pieces of wet string between us and the exchange that were never designed to carry digital signals. The fact that so may people sync way below the 8MB maximum (and practically nobody syncs at the maximum on ADSL2+) shows that it is really pushing the technology to the utter limit (certainly the limit of BT's capabilities). If conditions change on a line that is finely balanced (e.g. damp getting in to the joints or increased interference during the longer hours of darkness) you are bound to see a degradation in the service.
Unless a specific fault occurs that kills or very significantly reduces the connection (below the failure threshold) you just have to accept that variations can occur.
ADSL is a technology that was designed to get the most out of the pieces of wet string between us and the exchange that were never designed to carry digital signals. The fact that so may people sync way below the 8MB maximum (and practically nobody syncs at the maximum on ADSL2+) shows that it is really pushing the technology to the utter limit (certainly the limit of BT's capabilities). If conditions change on a line that is finely balanced (e.g. damp getting in to the joints or increased interference during the longer hours of darkness) you are bound to see a degradation in the service.
Unless a specific fault occurs that kills or very significantly reduces the connection (below the failure threshold) you just have to accept that variations can occur.