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Well, it is 8Meg day...
Teh_Gerbil
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Today, I get upped to 8Meg. WOOO!!!
But apparenty:
But apparenty:
Accoridng to my ISP. It seems to be working (I am posting, Right?) But wtf? Eep. What does this mean? Will I get my 8Meg? Should I contact BT and say "WTF are you sods doing again?!". Wouldn't be the first time the phone lines went dead round here.There is a BT service outage potentially affecting your ADSL connection.
Those words make me happy though! WOWWOOOO!Regrade to Speed: MAX scheduled for 2006-04-11
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But, it can take up to 3 days to have other bits of exchange upgraded fully, having your router/modem unplugged at time of upgrade can potentially remove this problem!
But i am synced at 8mb.. and my upload is faster
blueyonder, they're usually pretty good...
the last few days the reliability has been a bit up and down but they did warn me it might be.
All good. There is still apparently BT problems though... tossers.
Are you sure you get 8MB by the way? Like BT do up to 8MB and if your not bear ab exchange you won't get the full shebang.
No idea, butthe router says it is connected at 8 meg. Meh. I'll check it out one day I can be bothered.
i think i'll stick to my current 2mb deal.
this morning woke to find my connection runs at 7.6!
like shit off a shovel.
Lucky you... still at 2.2 here...
8meg is NOW avalible in my area
Let's clarify though, basically ADSL Max runs UPTO 8meg. BT still charge providers the same price for your line so the providers say fine we'll give everyone as fast as your line supports.
For some people like me I can only get 4-5mb. The training period talked about is a 10 day period where BT are monitoring your line to see where it can hold stable, they then set it, the steps are in half meg steps i.e. 3 meg 3.5 4 4.5 etc
Of course it won't actually be that fast, but we can pray I think it's a really good deal for the money, the main limitation is that during day hours they dont want you to use p2p software as that puts a big drain on their network and everyone suffers. Guess what? I don't use p2p
The TalkTalk deal is good but you can only get the free broadband if your local exchange has been unbundled in the LLU (Local Loop Unbundling) that is going on, if not it will cost you a tenner a month, which is still a good deal but the whole deal also carries a nasty 18 month contract, no thank you!
I am currently with evolutiondsl.com 24.99 p/month uncapped, because I download, A LOT
eta:
http://www.bt.com/broadband/
Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial test on your line indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband service that provides a line rate up to 512Kbps. However, due to the length of your line, an engineer visit may be required, who will, where possible, supply the broadband service.
Our test also indicates that your line should be able to support a potential ADSL Max broadband line rate of 1.5Mbps or greater.
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doesn't sound great
If you get your SNR and Line Attenuation from your router/modem I can roughly work it out for you
I'm on fibre optic cables at the minute...
and I have no clue what SNR and line attenuation are or how they're derived
;D
I'm lovin' it. (so, so, incredibly sorry.)
my speed is 5.29 ...so the idea of it being in .5's seems a bit wrong.