Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
Location: Howden
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*Essay warning*
iv been with my broadband provider years...since we moved house probably 10 years ago infact  never had any major issue but in the last few months we have aquired a few more wireless devices in the house and well...its not doing any favours to the bandwidth speeds.
im 100 yards from our 'small' exchange, theres no chance of fibre anytime soon
i pay about £18 a month for unlimited broadband on a BT line via Demon 'upto 8mb'
my actual speed is 6mb with nobody else using it, line attenuation is approx 6db so not really a problem
i have 2 lines into the house, currently only 1 in use/rental the other was for work
Now iv checked uswitch.com and according to them, high speed (or higher  ) is available to me at upto 24mb with an estimated speed of 17mb d/l for my postcode...even better a couple of the companies offering this, i am already with for other things such as orange for my phone & sky tv and these providers can offer higher speed broadband....at about £5 a month with 12.25 line rental..great so i could scrap the demon package and BT line rental and still only pay about £18 a month for seemingly faster internet but i dont wana get this in, and be dissapointed with d/l speeds SO
How the flip can i check for certain, just how much capacity my line or lines can take? is there a concrete evidence way to see what speeds il get?
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Cavey
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Registered: 11th Nov 02
Location: Derby
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Put your postcode in the checker on http://www.samknows.com I think that tells you the maximum available to you(?)
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noshua
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Registered: 19th Nov 08
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As above, gives you a good estimate.
I was with sky, very good
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Dave
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Registered: 26th Feb 01
Location: Lancs
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I've just switched to Sky, all I had to do was swap the router over on the day they said, rest was sorted by them.
I was getting an average of about 3Mbps and a huge ping on my old Orange broadband, Sky have been speeding this up all week and now stands at 13Mbps. Happy camper.
If you are already with Sky for tv you could free unlimited for 12months. I did and my line rental too.
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Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
Location: Howden
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will have a look at that, sky seems a good deal
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