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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #15 on: November 09, 2009, 12:25:03 AM »
i got a letter from BT last week telling me of their great service with up to 20 meg broadband, now available in my area.  and yet my broadband is typically around 15 kbs.  yes, kilo-bits!  on a good day i've been getting a speedy 30 kbs lately, but that's only the odd time.

pathetic.
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Jonny

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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #16 on: November 09, 2009, 04:14:03 PM »
I'm supposed to be on 10MB and I'm at 20kb.
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #17 on: November 09, 2009, 05:15:37 PM »
Where can I test what speed I am getting? I am meant to have max line speed, being in the coun'ryside (albeit very near Luton, MK etc) and I think I get about 6Mb

old computer science teacher would scald you all for saying MB not Mb methinks too. Megabytes are 8x the size of megabits.
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #18 on: November 09, 2009, 05:20:48 PM »
« Last Edit: November 09, 2009, 05:23:42 PM by WezV »
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #19 on: November 09, 2009, 05:22:59 PM »
I like using this one because it looks pretty and rev metres are cool!  :D
http://www.speedtest.net/
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #20 on: November 09, 2009, 05:25:53 PM »
the bt one tells you a few things, like what your line is actually capable of.  i was getting 135k even though it showed my line speed was 6.5Mb... something called the IP profile that BT ignore exists if you ask them about it
« Last Edit: November 09, 2009, 05:31:13 PM by WezV »
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Philly Q

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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #21 on: November 09, 2009, 05:26:26 PM »
Quote from: WezV on November 09, 2009, 05:20:48 PM
http://www.speedtester.bt.com/
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

I did the BT one and it said it couldn't detect a connection at all.


And I'm a BT broadband customer.  :|
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #22 on: November 09, 2009, 11:47:51 PM »
I've supposedly been upgraded to 20Mb on Blueyonder, but I think the modem they gave me 4+ years ago will only 'do' upto 10Mb.  The speed test thingie reported 9.86Mb download speed.
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #23 on: November 10, 2009, 12:03:30 AM »
I just tried two of those tests, one said my download speed is 1.99 Mb/s, the other 3.62 Mb/s.  I supposedly have "up to 8Mb", but I've never even got half that.
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #24 on: November 10, 2009, 07:54:16 AM »
Quote from: HEAVIER THAN HELL on November 09, 2009, 11:47:51 PM
I've supposedly been upgraded to 20Mb on Blueyonder, but I think the modem they gave me 4+ years ago will only 'do' upto 10Mb.  The speed test thingie reported 9.86Mb download speed.

tried unplugging it and turning it back on? mine wouldn't do 20mb until I did that
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #25 on: November 10, 2009, 08:39:18 AM »
I had a cracking one yesterday. I live in Hull which has it's own coverage area (no BT, No Virgin etc.) & I was running on the upto 8MB unlimited & getting it has to be said a pretty decent service. I noticed that they've changed it now down from several different packages to 3 all on upto 20MB, cool thinks I, I wonder what deal they've put me on. I give them a call & ask the question:
Karoo "Oh no sir we can't change you over!"
Me "OK, fair enough, so when does my contract end?"
K "oh it finished a year ago"
Me "sooooo when were you going to tell me & why didn't I get anything asking if I want to upgrade please?"
K "Oh we don't do that, Ha! We make more money that way"
ME "Sorry? Are you joking? Did you just admit that you rip off your customers?"
K "So do you want to upgrade?"
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Jonny

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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #26 on: November 10, 2009, 11:04:25 AM »
I got 145kbps (1.45%) - YES! :(
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #27 on: November 10, 2009, 11:30:43 AM »
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #28 on: November 10, 2009, 11:55:36 AM »
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Re: BT Rant
« Reply #29 on: November 10, 2009, 12:05:58 PM »


ok so i cheated and ran this from my work.
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