NEVER go with BT broadband!

[kado897]

Just about what I pay for.

 

[NoelDP]

...and just to be different....
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1617997355.png

or
http://www.speedtest.net/result/1618003940.png

with not a wire in sight

 

[Sub Styler]

Thats a good speed for mobile! Can you see the transmitter out of your window? like on the other side of the street?

 

[kado897]

That's just about what I got with 3 when I had it and I am in a dubious area for coverage.

 

[NoelDP]

Thats a good speed for mobile! Can you see the transmitter out of your window? like on the other side of the street?

Nah - sometimes it drops dramatically to about 100Kb/s but for the past few weeks it's been pretty steady, so they may have upgraded the mast.
There are a number of dead spots around here where I can't even log on - many of them inside this room

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Maybe I should put up something about my system...
The dongle is plugged into the back of an elderly XP system, which has a 100MB ICS ethernet link to a wireless N+/GB router - and a 1GB return link from the router on the LAN side
My laptops are both N+/GB so I can have all sorts of fun
[/edit]

 

[Joan Archer]

Thats a good speed for mobile! Can you see the transmitter out of your window? like on the other side of the street?

Nah - sometimes it drops dramatically to about 100Kb/s but for the past few weeks it's been pretty steady, so they may have upgraded the mast.
There are a number of dead spots around here where I can't even log on - many of them inside this room

[edit]
Maybe I should put up something about my system...
The dongle is plugged into the back of an elderly XP system, which has a 100MB ICS ethernet link to a wireless N+/GB router - and a 1GB return link from the router on the LAN side
My laptops are both N+/GB so I can have all sorts of fun
[/edit]

And having fun is what it's all about. :devil2:

 

[seavixen32]

There was a nice little story in today's newspapers that made me smile.

An elderly gentleman had to spend a few days in hospital and took his laptop to relieve the boredom. To get a good signal for his mobile internet he hooked the dongle on the frame that held his saline drip in place.

He was thereafter fussed over by the nurses while he got busy booking their foreign holidays for them.

Technology in action!

 

[NoelDP]

To get a good signal for his mobile internet he hooked the dongle on the frame that held his saline drip in place.

He was thereafter fussed over by the nurses while he got busy booking their foreign holidays for them.

Technology in action!

I had the same treatment when I took my laptop into hospital last year - trouble was, half the nurses were male

 

[Joan Archer]

To get a good signal for his mobile internet he hooked the dongle on the frame that held his saline drip in place.

He was thereafter fussed over by the nurses while he got busy booking their foreign holidays for them.

Technology in action!

I had the same treatment when I took my laptop into hospital last year - trouble was, half the nurses were male

:roflmao:

 

[seavixen32]

The last time I was in hospital, some of the female nurses were so fat and ugly, male nurses would have been a big improvement!

 

[boogieboy]

I probably have the highest cost, lowest performance ratio for an internet connection of anybody on this forum. We live out in the country with no cable or DSL available. It costs $160/month for the connection shown below. Fortunately for me, my employer pays for it otherwise I couldn't justify the cost and would have to settle for an even slower connection.

now that's and this is what i got...



but of course the Download and Upload speeds here are shown on SpeedTest are the connection speed we buy but not the transfer rate we get which is always divided by 8 like "Your Connection Speed / 8" (2048 / 8 = 256Kbps)

 

[strollin]

That's due to one being given in bps (bits per second) and the other being specified in Bps (Bytes per second), 8 bits to a byte ya know.

 

[badger906]

2 weeks about 20 phone calls, 3 wrongly set phone engineers and one rightly sent internet specialist, i now have fixed internet!

Before the issue occured my normal internet speed was 1.7Mbps, now its 3.5Mbps

 

[kronckew]

so far bt has been the fastest in my village, we're about 4 miles from the exchange (and 12 miles from gloucester) so i can't get the full 8 meg. this speed is very consistent. service has been quite good. only one bad day in 6 mo. but they were having some major problems, along with a lot of other isp's that day due to a cable problem. took them about 5-6 hrs to fix it. no problems locally, installation was scheduled, engr. arrived exactly on time, installed it in a few minutes and so far so good.

 

[badger906]

i used to live in Gloucestershire was born and raised in stonehouse near stroud lol.

 

[kronckew]

i used to live in Gloucestershire was born and raised in stonehouse near stroud lol.

i'm about 4.5 miles SW of Stonehouse.

 

[kado897]

Having bigged up Virgin Media its been down at least three times in the last 24 hours. Ho hum.