Broadband Speed

[PankySmooch]

Would it make any difference if I changed from Orange to BT broadband or does it just depend on where you live?

Thanks

[Prudie]

I think it depends on where you live and if fibre-optic is available and if you pay for it. I know all ISPs in my area can do no better than 2.5 Mbs.

[FrogNog]

It depends on how far you are from the exchange or if fibre optic broadband is available.
Ask them what your average speed will be and if you are ever throttled down for high use (streaming for instance) or if demand is high.
My own broadband is BT and they upgraded it to fibre optic recently so I went with that.
I am chuffed to bits that I did.

[PankySmooch]

Thanks, at the moment there are 4 iPhones, an iPad and a ps4 using the wireless broadband and it's so slow, will give BT a ring in the morning and find out more

[Prudie]

So what speed are you currently getting?
http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/

[FrogNog]

prefer this one:

http://www.speedtest.net/

My current upload speed is 17.95 and my download is 74.85mbps.
That on a browser I've had open since this morning.
I'm happy.

[PankySmooch]

Prudie the first test was 2.17 mb/s download and 0.14 upload
The second time it was 1.46 and 00.32

[alavahalf]

Why wait till the morning ... check it yourself now and see if it is available in your area ... http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/services-checker?s_cid=con_ppc_maxus_vidZ59_T1&vendorid=Z59&;gclid=CJij89OQ9sECFQPMtAod-CoAog&gclsrc=aw.ds&dclid=CN66h9SQ9sECFcFPfAodiVwAfA
Please be aware that the estimated speed is exactly that. It's an estimate, not a guaranteed speed.
But if fibre is available it should make a big difference. I get 8mb download with my Broadband and my next door neighbour gets about 68mb with his fibre.
The best deal out there at the moment for fibre is with Plusnet ... https://www.plus.net/home-broadband/fibre/?WT.mc_id=aff_003a&awc=2973_1415832306_979e11682962d55a993d17b01451c24f ... and if you go via Quidco you can get another £100 cashback. Fibre and line rental works out at about £21 per month.

[Buenchico]

If you're stuck with copper cables, rather than fibre optic, ask your ISP about switching you to 'ADSL2+'. That effectively gives you two lines connected together, doubling your download speed from that provided by the normal 'ADSL Max' service (which is what BT OpenReach routinely wholesales to other ISPs).

For example, everyone else in my street gets around 5Mbps but (because I hassled my ISP for ADSL2+, threatening to leave them) I get around 10Mbps. OK, that's not brilliant when compared to cable speeds (which aren't available here) but it's ruddy good for much of East Anglia. (There are still plenty of places around Norfolk and Suffolk where you're lucky to get 1Mbps).

[Prudie]

Panky that is slow (as am I ) and a lot lot slower than most of the AB crowd.

[PankySmooch]

I've had problems before with my router and was advised by orange tech support to plug it into the main BT socket by taking the cover off the box and using the second socket, if that makes sense? after my internet connection kept disconnecting

[alavahalf]

Did thing improve ?

[ivor4781]

panky that can improve the signal but your getting at mo a terrible speed

[PankySmooch]

alavahalf, will have a look at your links in the morning, cheers

[hc4361]

Is that the speed you get over wifi? What do you get if you connect by ethernet?

[kvalidir]

We have just had an additional BT line fitted and our EE line gives around 2mb/s and the BT one around 7mb/s- so a huge difference for us but we have found EE to be utterly utterly dreadful.

[mikey4444]

Just to concur with what people have already said. Unless there is cable available in your area, BT will supply the line to your house. So check with BT if "fibre to the cabinet" is available in your immediate area.

BT have a program of putting fibre optic to the cabinet, which will be "down the road" from your house, if you live in a urban area. So if you see a brand new green cabinet on your streets, normally close to the old cabinet, you should be able to upgrade to BT Infinity.

Check with BT if this service is available. If it is, go for it, as its your only hope of getting a much better speed. I made the change in February this year and now get 37 mega pixies, and like FrogNog, I too am very pleased.

[HansUrbancka]

Note what mikey4444 has said and check the position, here:-

http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/

Hans.

[PankySmooch]

Just had a word with orange or EE as they're now called and they did a few line tests, they said there's plenty going from the exchange to my router so the problem is the amount of devices using wifi in my house.

They said if I change my landline over to them I can have fibre optic broadband which will sort out the problem, does that sound right?

[kvalidir]

I don't know about the fibre optic thing PankySmooch, but that was the utter Bull that EE kept spinning us- that we had too many devices. We turned them all off and used them one at a time and never saw any improvement. By contrast BT has been very fast.