Author Topic: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest (Read 186836 times)

HeartAndSoul · « **Reply #800 on:** May 20, 2012, 05:26:49 pm »

I think my broadband is fucked. The internet is running so slow. Can't even access sopcast and a putlocker or sockshare 45 mins video is taking forever to load up. I've been getting disconnected from every fifa game for the last couple of nights. This is really starting to piss me off. I think I'm on 20 or 40 mb with orange. Any idea why this is happening?

vNauuuM · « **Reply #801 on:** May 20, 2012, 06:07:51 pm »

Quote from: HeartAndSoul on May 20, 2012, 05:26:49 pm

I think my broadband is fucked. The internet is running so slow. Can't even access sopcast and a putlocker or sockshare 45 mins video is taking forever to load up. I've been getting disconnected from every fifa game for the last couple of nights. This is really starting to piss me off. I think I'm on 20 or 40 mb with orange. Any idea why this is happening?

Most likely area problems.

StephenStills · « **Reply #802 on:** May 20, 2012, 08:07:35 pm »

French countryside. But more than that, it's orange :/ It's pretty much one device at a time in this house :/
Should get some fibre optic stuffs soon. Happy days ahead.

jason42 · « **Reply #803 on:** May 21, 2012, 01:07:31 pm »

This is my last day with BT Total Broadband...they did me a decent enough deal to stay with them last year but this time really didn't want to know so I have jumped ship to Sky. 6 months free as well so that is good. Had to pay £2.18 for the Router delivery but the guy on the phone refunded that while we were on the phone and then he offered me the Wireless connector for the Sky Box to connect to the Sky Router at £60. I said I couldn't afford that so he said that if I bought it he would then refund the money - result!!!
The wireless connector is here and set up already and Sky Anytime+ works with my BT Broadband and my Sky Router has arrived and gets set up tomorrow.
Here is my last SpeedTest from BT

Will have to wait a few days for the Sky service to settle down and then I will post an update. Neither BT Infinity or Sky Fibre is available in my area yet...

thekitkatshuffler · « **Reply #804 on:** May 27, 2012, 12:22:08 am »

I went through a hideous spell with Virgin during the first few months of the year, but getting a fairly stable service now via wireless. I'll be amazed if my speed does actually double as advertised when they upgrade me in July, but we'll see.

capt k · « **Reply #805 on:** May 27, 2012, 05:41:52 am »

www.speedtest.net/result/1973912661.png
Up and down like a honeymooners arse.
from 117Mbps to 70Mbps

buzzing · « **Reply #806 on:** May 27, 2012, 01:00:37 pm »

Quote from: jason23 on May 21, 2012, 01:07:31 pm

This is my last day with BT Total Broadband...they did me a decent enough deal to stay with them last year but this time really didn't want to know so I have jumped ship to Sky. 6 months free as well so that is good. Had to pay £2.18 for the Router delivery but the guy on the phone refunded that while we were on the phone and then he offered me the Wireless connector for the Sky Box to connect to the Sky Router at £60. I said I couldn't afford that so he said that if I bought it he would then refund the money - result!!!
The wireless connector is here and set up already and Sky Anytime+ works with my BT Broadband and my Sky Router has arrived and gets set up tomorrow.
Here is my last SpeedTest from BT

Will have to wait a few days for the Sky service to settle down and then I will post an update. Neither BT Infinity or Sky Fibre is available in my area yet...

Be carefull with sky. When i joined their regular BB service I was told i'd get 13, but only got 3.5-4

Luckily, now on their fibre and getting 40

andym41 · « **Reply #807 on:** May 31, 2012, 02:39:15 pm »

Waited in yesterday for a BT engineer to come and install Infinity 2 and never showed up

Rung BT up and apparently they need to do some work in the exchange so there was no chance of them being able to do the installation yesterday I will have to wait another 2 weeks at least

Would have been nice to have been told but at least they are refunding me a months broadband for the inconvenience

GeeFJay · « **Reply #808 on:** May 31, 2012, 06:25:37 pm »

mate rings up virgin and complains that he's only getting 8meg from a 10meg line, later on he gets £9 off his bill and upgraded for free to 30meg, seems that's there standard now so i don't think its anything new to anyone though?

Bucke · « **Reply #809 on:** June 10, 2012, 09:41:28 am »

Andym: I'm in the same boat but a bit further along. After another 2 weeks they did show up only for the engineer to say he couldn't find our wires in the cabinet. He said someone else would be along later that day, however I then got an email giving me a new date another 2 weeks later. I have complained, they cancelled my entire order and gave me a new one with a date a day before the last date

No-one calls me back when they say they will. I am disgusted by BT customer service

vNauuuM · « **Reply #810 on:** June 10, 2012, 08:44:29 pm »

Got 75mb Today! Even though I'm on the 60mb package!! Once BT infinity is in the Area i'm leaving Virgin. Area problems supposed to be fixed 26th September, that's a joke right? No!

andym41 · « **Reply #811 on:** June 18, 2012, 06:44:58 pm »

Fucking BT - once again they failed to turn up to install Infinity today

I was getting a feeling of Deja Vu around 4:30 so rung them up They told me they weren't able to contact the engineer so didn't know whether he was going to keep the appointment

Safe to say I don't expect him now - perhaps I should just cancel and go to Sky

Lent§ · « **Reply #812 on:** June 18, 2012, 06:47:25 pm »

Sky broadband is dogshit, don't do it

vNauuuM · « **Reply #813 on:** June 18, 2012, 10:10:38 pm »

Quote from: Lent§ on June 18, 2012, 06:47:25 pm

Sky broadband is dogshit, don't do it

Virgin is dogshit.

GeeFJay · « **Reply #814 on:** June 21, 2012, 10:02:56 am »

Quote from: Lent§ on June 18, 2012, 06:47:25 pm

Sky broadband is dogshit, don't do it

not had any problems myself?

Bucke · « **Reply #815 on:** June 21, 2012, 12:52:47 pm »

after kicking up an almighty stink, I finally got my BT infinity

needless to say my life has changed!

anyone got any experience with wireless range extenders for this sort of speed. is it worth doing? what about the powerline option?

vNauuuM · « **Reply #816 on:** June 21, 2012, 10:51:56 pm »

Quote from: Bucke on June 21, 2012, 12:52:47 pm

after kicking up an almighty stink, I finally got my BT infinity

needless to say my life has changed!

anyone got any experience with wireless range extenders for this sort of speed. is it worth doing? what about the powerline option?

Lucky! I really want Infinity and they wont be in the West Midlands till 2013

Bucke · « **Reply #817 on:** June 22, 2012, 05:16:52 pm »

Quote from: vNauuuM on June 21, 2012, 10:51:56 pm

Lucky! I really want Infinity and they wont be in the West Midlands till 2013

I am impressed. "only" getting 40mb through the wireless though

GeeFJay · « **Reply #818 on:** June 22, 2012, 07:12:52 pm »

Quote from: GeeFJay on June 21, 2012, 10:02:56 am

not had any problems myself?

spoke to soon, was down at 8am today so i stayed off till 4pm and it was back!

Pheeny · « **Reply #819 on:** June 23, 2012, 11:33:32 am »

about to have my speed increased (as of tomorrow) this is what I get today...

buzzing · « **Reply #820 on:** June 23, 2012, 12:20:21 pm »

Sky's fibre service has been "broken" for over a week - Keeps cutting out and numerous people only getting half their actual speeds.

BT Open Reach have been informed but they keep closing the calls down with "no fault found", even though Sky have told them countless times the lines are failing...apparently Sky have only been telling them there is a fault via their "system"...why dont they just pick up the phone and speak to someone

andym41 · « **Reply #821 on:** June 26, 2012, 02:13:09 pm »

Having been given the run around by BT for another week I get a phone call saying they have now sorted whatever problem they had and an engineer would come this Thursday to install Infinity

Less than half an hour later I get a text saying the appointment is set for July 5th

Clearly their incompetence knows no bounds

andym41 · « **Reply #822 on:** June 29, 2012, 08:45:09 pm »

Two more missed appointments this week so compensation up to £45

My letter of complaint is up to 3 pages and I don't think I am anywhere nearer getting Infinity

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #823 on:** June 29, 2012, 10:16:38 pm »

Ahoy speed freaks.

Just signed up to BT Infinity. Getting about 80 wired Ethernet but only about 10 via homeplugs. They are 85mbps plugs.

Have ordered some 200mbps to come next week are they likely to do anything, if the 85's are not getting above 10?

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #824 on:** July 14, 2012, 07:08:17 am »

Got my new Virgin upgrade yesterday

When they've updated the local boxes that should increase to around 120MB

Upinsmoke · « **Reply #825 on:** July 14, 2012, 07:25:43 am »

i pay around 17 quid on o2, to be fair i've never had any major issues and when i have i've found there customer service to be the best i've ever experienced. I'm getting 8-10 meg, which i dont mind but is there better speeds/isp's out there for a similar price?

S7ARZ · « **Reply #826 on:** July 15, 2012, 01:23:46 am »

Quote from: Upinsmoke on July 14, 2012, 07:25:43 am

i pay around 17 quid on o2, to be fair i've never had any major issues and when i have i've found there customer service to be the best i've ever experienced. I'm getting 8-10 meg, which i dont mind but is there better speeds/isp's out there for a similar price?

I have virgin for £22.50 a month and that gets me 30Mb

Walshy nMe® · « **Reply #827 on:** July 15, 2012, 09:16:46 am »

Upload is very low with Virgin?

Andy @ Allerton! · « **Reply #828 on:** July 15, 2012, 06:44:00 pm »

Quote from: Walshy® on July 15, 2012, 09:16:46 am

Upload is very low with Virgin?

Yeah it's always been slow.

They've fixed my download now

Just got 138.9Mb/S out of it

jackh · « **Reply #829 on:** July 18, 2012, 08:27:07 am »

Quote from: jackh on March 11, 2009, 02:37:48 pm

Quote from: jackh on December 17, 2009, 09:51:04 pm

Well, thing's are looking up!

Quote from: jackh on November 19, 2010, 08:31:37 pm

Quote from: jackh on August 23, 2011, 10:39:33 pm

Brand new 10mb Virgin Media contract

Quote from: jackh on August 23, 2011, 11:12:46 pm

If I were to tell you that this test was done just now (and the above done just then), just 8 feet away from where the original was done (desk - doorway...router is on stairs so nearer doorway), would you consider that the router is absolute garbage or are there some settings that I need to look at?

Just sat over near the door now and my browser is flying in comparison.

*Edit: really useless at things like this.

Quote from: jackh on October 7, 2011, 07:07:52 pm

Upgrade:

Am I completely missing something here? I live in a house with 3 other 20-somethings and so there can often be multiple laptops/consoles connected but the new deal was for 50mb Virgin Media. Tonight, I'm the only one in the house and I have the PS3 and laptop connected wirelessly to the router and, after getting nowhere trying to watch the iPlayer on the PS3, I ran a test on the laptop and came up with this:

Quote from: jackh on October 28, 2011, 10:26:03 pm

Am I completely missing something here? I live in a house with 3 other 20-somethings and so there can often be multiple laptops/consoles connected but the new deal was for 50mb Virgin Media. Tonight, I'm the only one in the house and I have the PS3 and laptop connected wirelessly to the router and, after getting nowhere trying to watch the iPlayer on the PS3, I ran a test on the laptop and came up with this:

F**king finally...

vNauuuM · « **Reply #830 on:** July 23, 2012, 09:09:42 pm »

Fuck Virgin Media!

Area problems fixed by 26th September!

Richard Branson is a

Brian Blessed · « **Reply #831 on:** September 1, 2012, 11:19:40 pm »

So fuck this slow Who torrent!

Bucke · « **Reply #832 on:** September 2, 2012, 12:48:21 pm »

bit slow today

filopastry · « **Reply #833 on:** September 6, 2012, 12:24:14 pm »

Quote from: Graeme on April 24, 2012, 10:36:37 pm

I think I read a while back that the cabinets are replaced for Infinity as they can't fibre into the old ones. My understanding is once you see a new one being installed next to your old one then its not far from being available...

Well they got there in the end, finally got the email to say it's been activated and I should be able to get the full 80/20 on my line, so will just have to see how the install goes now.

helmboy_nige · « **Reply #834 on:** September 6, 2012, 01:46:29 pm »

Has to be the most frustrating thing about choosing to move out of town.

My village has been hooked up to 'South Yorkshire Digital Region', however the company made the decision in 2009 not to hook up one cabinet. This cabinet was on a brand new housing estate and as there weren't many people using it they skipped it. 3 years later, the estate is finished and there are over 100 hours on the thing (including mine).

Every single house in the surrounding area bar this new estate are covered, but I have to make do with 'national broadband'.

Am getting about 5Mb, which isn't bad, but it's a pain in the arse when you know how much greener the grass is across the road!

NA_ · « **Reply #835 on:** September 21, 2012, 12:17:20 pm »

filopastry · « **Reply #836 on:** September 26, 2012, 12:51:40 pm »

Finally got infinity installed today after there was an issue on the line when they tried it first time round

cim-pim-param · « **Reply #837 on:** September 27, 2012, 09:22:23 pm »

Getting tired of virgin and their high pings starting evening till late at night which kills my online gaming experience. Which of the 3 (virgin, sky, bt) have the most stable connection you think? Don't really care much for speed as long as the latency is low all the time?

GeeFJay · « **Reply #838 on:** September 28, 2012, 08:35:37 am »

Quote from: cim-pim-param on September 27, 2012, 09:22:23 pm

Getting tired of virgin and their high pings starting evening till late at night which kills my online gaming experience. Which of the 3 (virgin, sky, bt) have the most stable connection you think? Don't really care much for speed as long as the latency is low all the time?

not a lover of virgin, BT are always increasing prices so sky's just right for me but that's just my personally preference, my stats from last year and two ran just now:-

Quote from: GeeFJay on July 11, 2011, 06:57:21 pm

pleased with that, only knocking 9meg a few months back and nothing has been changed

GeeFJay · « **Reply #839 on:** September 28, 2012, 08:40:02 am »

from a gaming point of view i think you'll be best going with BT inifinity if your fed up with virgin?

Author Topic: The Broadband Speed Pissing Contest (Read 186836 times)

Pheeny