Broadband speed

[funny farm]

Hi all what's the best we can expect from our BT broadband were on fibre to the cabinet which is about a 1 1/2 mile away from the farm. The best we ever get at the moment is about 3.5 mbps. Is this ok or should I be trying to get more, I know the last 1000 metres of cabling has been joined and damaged dozens of times in the past and the engineers have blamed this in the past on us having phone problems

 

[JeepJeep]

I'm about mile mile and Half away from the cabinet and get 48.5 mbps on infinity. Prior to infinity I was getting low 6's.

 

[foobar]

Plug your address/phone number into the BT web site and it should give you a pretty good estimate of your potential speeds on normal broadband and fibre broadband - they are more accurate than they used to be.
(https://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband-packages/)
And if you aren't getting the speed that it says, keep on at your provider to get them to fix it - if your cable is duff it'll never get any faster.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

What’s the collective on here regarding what a slow broadband is? We’ve just moved house and knew before hand that predicted speed would be around the 2mb/s. Was not going to be fantastic but we needed something. EE had the best deal therefore went with them. It took two weeks to get connected due to line issues, we’re about 500m from centre of village.

Tonight we get a staggering 0.31 mb/s!!!! Browser will just about load txt etc but hardly anything else!!! It’s just nuts in this day and age that we have to pay exactly the same as everyone else for broadband and mobile phones that are useless half the time. Previous house was an usefull 9mb which was ok and is only a stone throw away( next village).

Has anyone found an unlimited mobile broadband? Three coverage is good here with 4g but they cap it at 40gb. Only other option is to go the sky tv route for catchup and on demand but the cost of all these soon mount up

 

[7610 super q]

Seems to have a ' go slow ' every few weeks here.
TAW thread out of the question ATM.

 

[Netherfield]

We should be able get up to 300 mbps from virgin, there is a connection point outside the house, except for whatever reason they claim we don't.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

We should be able get up to 300 mbps from virgin, there is a connection point outside the house, except for whatever reason they claim we don't.

My parents have fibre to the home, only way could they get an useable connection. The house next to them, served from exactly same ploe in front of the house cant. No one can explain why just it cant!!!

 

[agrotron]

My parents have fibre to the home, only way could they get an useable connection. The house next to them, served from exactly same ploe in front of the house cant. No one can explain why just it cant!!!

I am in same position, neighbours and all surround houses can get 70mb yet I can only get 5mb!

 

[Old Boar]

I am in the same boat @Mur Huwcun - generally get up to 0.5 mb/s but occasionally this drops to below 0.2. They have been promising FTTP for over 4 years now, and was absolutely assured I would have it this September. Superfast Cymru finishes in December but there is a new scheme coming along, so I am still vaguely hopeful I may at some future date be able to load email in under 5 minutes!

 

[Riverblue]

We get 1 mb/s as we are at the end of the line. Fibre optic cable was put up outside our farm yard April 2016 and nothing has happened since. No company will supply us as we are to have FTTP, not even BT will supply us!!!!

 

[Av Gorritt]

Well this is my speed with Zen fibre . Doesn't vary a lot , and very rarely if ever goes down . I used to think that it was due to there being a green cabinet at the end of the lane , until a trailer of ours loaded with straw went adrift and narrowly missed demolishing it - turned out that it was a Gas main junction box ! I bought lottery tickets that day too ( no I didn't win) Zen not the cheapest but good - very good , and the customer service is excellent - local ,and in English too , which helps a lot

 

[Still Farming]

The advertising Authority needs looking at some of these upload and download speeds as never even get close to them???

 

[Jon]

Half a meg here, we're at the end of the line.
And that drops out at weekends when the village are all on it.

Really really frustrating

 

[Still Farming]

They say that about local school but nothing to do with it .
The School uses "line of sight" link up direct back to the Council .

 

[Mur Huwcun]

It’s so slow tonight that the browser is timing out before loading!!! EE saying the line will take upto 10 days to reach its peak speed! How that works I have no idea!!!

 

[Old Boar]

I used to know this stuff. I seem to remember bits sort of go along the line and try to find how high the speed can go before faults develop. It then drops back a bit and checks again and this happens over a few days to find the best stable speed for your line.
Happy to be corrected though.
Schools are usually on a private network. It used to be called Janet, but not sure what it is called now. Councils also have their own network with councillors here having access to this in their homes. So they dont press for higher speeds for us mere mortals.

 

[Kidds]

I used to know this stuff. I seem to remember bits sort of go along the line and try to find how high the speed can go before faults develop. It then drops back a bit and checks again and this happens over a few days to find the best stable speed for your line.

That is pretty much how it works.
Tends to get worse rather than better though, sorry to say.

Tonight I have been running off BT router, Three mobile router and my iphone plugged into my computer trying to get a usable speed. Not usually as bad as tonight.

 

[Mur Huwcun]

If we were living in the back of beyond miles from anywhere on the end of an old line I would half understand the issues. We’re right on the side of the main A487 running north to south which I can nearly guarantee carries the fibre network in a duct along side or underneath aswell!!! An useable broadband connection should not be beyond the technological world that we live in!! Old house only had a cable from cabinet to house but was always around 9m/b and we never had issues with catchup or anything.

 

[fermerboy]

I live 100yds off the main Aberdeen to Inverness road and I know all the main wires pass by on the verge, including the early warning wiring from London to RAF Lossiemouth and fibre connections to wherever too, also have a Vodafone mast behind the house with a dedicated fibre connection to the main lines which goes past my house 8m away and all we can get is 0.5meg on the BT line.
I can get about 65 odd meg on 4g standing next to the mast though!!
We are on EE 4g broadband in the house from a mast a little further away and get about 30-35meg. 50gb/ month limit or they fleece you though.
See they are doing a 100gb/month deal now too but not cheap.
Roll on unlimited mobile data!!