- How to establish max possible ADSL speed for a given telephone number/ exchange
- Posted by DeeBee on October 17th, 2005
Hi
Looking into migrating my parents from EFH Broadband as they have just
come to the end of their first year at £9.99 / month, now gone up to
£15.99 for uncapped 512k.
Looks like one of the best deals is PlusNet at £14.99 for uncapped 2Meg
service and no migration fee, BUT
they live in a small rural village and I am not sure if they can get
faster than 512k, so maybe it is not worth the effort and hassle of
migrating if they cannot get a faster service.
So my question is - is there a site that I can enter their phone number
/ exchange and find out what the line is capable of???
Any help / advice (or alternative deals) greatly appreciated.
Cheers
DeeBee
- Posted by Dave on October 17th, 2005
DeeBee wrote:
is easier to find.
http://www.virgin.net/internetaccess...d/?buspart=241
Just enter the phone number and postcode and it should tell you what
speed the line is capable of supporting.
- Posted by tarzan on October 17th, 2005
its just a yes or no .
- Posted by Old Codger on October 17th, 2005
DeeBee wrote:
It is not really uncapped you know. Use too much and you will be throttled
or, in the extreme, "assisted to move to another provider".
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- Posted by DeeBee on October 17th, 2005
Dave wrote:
Yep, that just says then can get b/b and in fact says they already have it !
cheers anyway
DeeBe
- Posted by DeeBee on October 17th, 2005
Old Codger wrote:
as they are not heavy downloaders and do not p2p at all - silver
surfers. Just wanted to take advantage of a faster service if possible....
cheers
DeeBee
- Posted by TP on October 17th, 2005
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php
...then when it says "yes you can but there's a compatibility problem because
you already have broadband" (or some such).. click on the more details
button for BT ADSL (or any LLU supplier available in your area)
- Posted by Gel on October 17th, 2005
Check here
http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/
- Posted by Kraftee on October 17th, 2005
DeeBee wrote:
Think you aught to be more worried about this £14.99 2Mb, uncapped
service from Plusnet. If they are capping & traffic shapping their
premium services I'd hate to think how they will treat their base level
one.
Mind you having said that maybe it would be ideal, but check, double
check & then check again...
- Posted by DeeBee on October 18th, 2005
TP wrote:
and they can only get 512 at the moments so may as well stay with EFH
and save the hasle of moving
DeeBee
- Posted by DeeBee on October 18th, 2005
MinusNet wrote:
- Posted by Ivor Jones on October 18th, 2005
"Dave" <Dave@home.con> wrote in message
news:6XR4f.6069$2z4.1379@newsfe6-win.ntli.net
[snip]
All I can get from that site is whether a given number can get Virgin
broadband. Nothing about speed mentioned, although 2MB seems to be the
fastest Virgin are currently offering.
Ivor
- Posted by Phil Thompson on October 18th, 2005
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 18:20:46 +0100, "Ivor Jones"
<ivor@despammed.invalid> wrote:
www.bt.com/broadband is the mose useful for BT provided services. LLU
is a jungle.
Phil
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- Posted by Alex Hunt on October 19th, 2005
Unfortunately as most of PlusNet victi... (I mean users) have found out
over the last couple of weeks, everyone is now throttled via their
Ellacoya Usenet blacklisting. Despite their constant denials, we are
supposed to believe their 'bronze' queue priority over external Usenet
services, may be 10% slower at peak times.
Now my Maths is not what it used to be .. but the now 15-20k per second
download speed, to what is expected (and to what was a couple of weeks
ago) over my 1MB connection of around 110k-120k a second equates to
around a 90% reduction.
To cut a long story short, PlusNet had built up a very good reputation
as an ISP over the years. I have been with them for 3.5 of those. For
some unknown reason they now seem adept at destroying this by applying
Usenet restrictions at near dial-up speeds, regardless of account type
and usage and thinking no-one will believe they have done so.
I like many others have an Easynews subscription. I can connect to my
work PC via Remote Desktop and download at full speed via their http
interface now, but yet downloads from PlusNet are now around 15-30k a
second, while the remainder of downloads elsewhere on the net are fine
(by that I mean anything else non-Usenet PlusNet don't have Ellacoya
blacklisted). In fact even browsing the web pages of Easynews is
noticibly slower, and then support will either admit:
(a) There is nothing wrong.
(b) There is a problem, maybe with the external provider.
(c) There is no problem, but external Usenet is of a lower priority and
"Look I can download at near full speed!"
Suprisingly I don't believe none of the above!
A few months ago I would have happily recommended them, now I wouldn't
go near due to their recent behaviour.
Sorry to all at uk.t.b, as this is old news which has been repeated
over many threads and is also in their forums. But I can't wait to
request my MAC from them in a few weeks (I am only waiting as it is
closer to my subscription day), and that is a request I intend to put
on their gold queue.
Alex.
- Posted by Old Codger on October 19th, 2005
Alex Hunt wrote:
<AOL>
That good reputation was built following a previous disaster called Plusnet
Surftime. It would appear the leopard has not changed its spots, just
hidden them for a while.
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