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Well, it is 8Meg day...

Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
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Today, I get upped to 8Meg. WOOO!!!

But apparenty:
There is a BT service outage potentially affecting your ADSL connection.
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.
Regrade to Speed: MAX scheduled for 2006-04-11
Those words make me happy though! :D WOWWOOOO!

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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i still aint got my upgrade yet, they said 4/4/06. im gonna give it another week and then give em a call.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I was due to be upgraded on 10th, yesterday, and i was! I was upgraded @ 3.50am.

    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 :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    mine was supposed to be upgraded to 10MBs ages ago, but I tested it yesterday and it's running at about 2 :grump:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    With what ISP?
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I have an old modem so im down in the waiting list for an upgrade. To be fair though, I dont really care about bandwidth, I want more speed and reliability!
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    TheShyBoyInTheCorner wrote:
    I have an old modem so im down in the waiting list for an upgrade. To be fair though, I dont really care about bandwidth, I want more speed and reliability!
    well im just well and dandy waiting for my line upgrade to a whopping 1meg
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Felix Da Housecat wrote:
    With what ISP?

    blueyonder, they're usually pretty good...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    mine goes up to 8 this week ...line test says i'll get 6.5

    the last few days the reliability has been a bit up and down but they did warn me it might be.
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Completed on 2006-04-11
    yay!

    All good. There is still apparently BT problems though... tossers. :/
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    YHou with BT Gerbil?
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Our phone line is, yes. But my ISP is Freedom2surf
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i'm still waitng ...2.2
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    Teh_Gerbil wrote:
    Our phone line is, yes. But my ISP is Freedom2surf

    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.
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Felix Da Housecat wrote:
    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.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    :-)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i'm still waiting ...stuck at 2.2 ///hellooo ...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    goddam BeeTee will not be upgrading me unless i move to one of their 4 options packages, im currently on a unlimited downloads thing its an old contract, so unless i start paying £26.99 a month im not gonna get 8mb.

    i think i'll stick to my current 2mb deal.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    at last!
    this morning woke to find my connection runs at 7.6!
    like shit off a shovel.
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    morrocan roll wrote:
    at last!
    this morning woke to find my connection runs at 7.6!
    like shit off a shovel.

    Lucky you... still at 2.2 here...
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    i am ment to have a meg but BT capped it at 512 for some reason

    8meg is NOW avalible in my area
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    There are plenty of ISP's offering upto 8mb and uncapped.

    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
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    I found a good deal the other day. Free 8mb internet for life (up to) if you sign up to talktalk phoneline. http://www.talktalk.co.uk/talktalk/servlet/gben-LLU-PageServer;jsessionid=214C3BCC26FA1BFF3E9C6636CC7A7105.sol72-15?article=MAIN.UK.TALKTALK.STATIC.TESTHUB

    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 :D
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CheeseOnToast wrote:
    the steps are in half meg steps i.e. 3 meg 3.5 4 4.5 etc
    but mines 7.6 :chin:
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    pfft says who rolly! :P Is your router/modem actually sync'd at 7.6? I don't think so :P

    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 :)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    If you go on BT Broadbands webpage it tells you how far you are from the exchange and what they think your top speed will be. Mine, they say, will be 1.5mbps. :(

    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.

    ----

    doesn't sound great :(
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    That isn't very accurate tbh. My mates showed at 6.5 and he got 8 etc, they are a half estimate but certainly not correct :)

    If you get your SNR and Line Attenuation from your router/modem I can roughly work it out for you
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CheeseOnToast wrote:
    That isn't very accurate tbh. My mates showed at 6.5 and he got 8 etc, they are a half estimate but certainly not correct :)

    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 :p
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    Teh_GerbilTeh_Gerbil Posts: 13,332 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Our test also indicates that your line should be able to support a potential ADSL Max broadband line rate of 6.5Mbps up to 8Mbps.


    ;D

    I'm lovin' it. (so, so, incredibly sorry.)
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    Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1,876,323 The Mix Honorary Guru
    CheeseOnToast wrote:
    pfft says who rolly! :P Is your router/modem actually sync'd at 7.6? I don't think so :P

    :)
    just done a speed teast ...a nunber of times for accuracy.
    my speed is 5.29 ...so the idea of it being in .5's seems a bit wrong.
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