J1
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Registered: 9th May 02
Location: Bedfordshire
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I have recently moved home and I had to take BT broadband with me as I'm tied in for another 10 months. Problem is the speed is crap. It's only 0.5 meg speed an I did a speed test from some site and apparently I'm only running 0.25 Mbps. Can I do anything to speed it up?
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strick206
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Wigan Drives:Integra DC5
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Not really, in my experience ADSL broadband is generally shit
Much prefer cable, but just bought myself a house and i have to go with ADSL  
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N3CRO
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Sandy, Bedfordshire
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BT are crap. Seriously. I had to get away from them, I even paid off the rest of my contract coz they were that bad.
I was paying quite a bit for 8Mb but only getting 0.25 and after phoning them every day for a month and listening to each crap excuse and having an engineer round and he said everything was fine, shouldn't be a problem, I told them where to shove it!
Now, I'm on O2 and happily getting a constant 12-14Mb outta the 16Mb I'm paying for, even though BT told me on numorous occasions that my phone line could only take 0.25Mb.
Seriously, if you can afford to, get out.
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Whittie
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Registered: 11th Aug 06
Location: North Wales Drives: BMW, Corsa & Fiat
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Nextdoors internet is doing me proud... (asked him to use it, whilst BT is getting sorted, lol)
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J1
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Registered: 9th May 02
Location: Bedfordshire
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is there anything i can do to speeed up my internet on my wireless laptop while im on the subject
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strick206
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Registered: 12th Apr 07
Location: Wigan Drives:Integra DC5
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quote:
Originally posted by TheNobleOne
BT are crap. Seriously. I had to get away from them, I even paid off the rest of my contract coz they were that bad.
I was paying quite a bit for 8Mb but only getting 0.25 and after phoning them every day for a month and listening to each crap excuse and having an engineer round and he said everything was fine, shouldn't be a problem, I told them where to shove it!
I had the same problem and after working my way from the slums in india through to the head of the indian call centre, then moved onto the english call centre, my remaining 7 months of my contract were terminated with no charge
just got o2 myself, and i'm astonished at how good the speed is for adsl, was expecting to get about 0.25 if i was lucky
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_Allan_
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Registered: 24th Mar 04
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My o2 aint bad tonight 
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