speed and price

[cookiee69]

Hello.
i have been trying to get my broadband for less money, with some success.
today, Sky offered me 20mgs speed with unlimited downloads for £10 a month.
then, O2 told me that i would never get a speed of 20mgs, because i lived too far from the transmitter (I think that was the word he used) so it was a waste of money. but they could offer me 8mgs and unlimited downloads for £7.34 a month, and the first three months for free.

so i went with O2.

but then i did a speed test on my current broadband and it said 1929 kbps. does this figure equate to almost 20mgs, and if so, are O2 lying to me.

i live in north london, N8.

cheers
angela

[Mobius1]

1Mb (Megabit) per second is 2000kbps (kilobits per second). So no, you are actually receiving about 2Mb which is fairly slow and would corroborate what O2 told you.

20Mb would require you to live very near to your exchange. Recent reports suggest that 2-4Mb is the rough average for customers using an ADSL broadband connection (phone line type).

[Mobius1]

Typo, I meant that 1Mb is 1000kbps. Silly mistake!

[paulsdaddy]

also when ur first connected to 02 broadband you have a 10 day training period where they will run tests on ur line so speed will vary after 10 days your speed will be set to the best speed your line can handle but dont turn off your router for the first 10 days

[cookiee69]

thank you all so much.