8Mb broadband

Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an 8Mb
broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a telephone
exchange.

What's the situation with cable suppliers?

Regards.

Bill Ridgeway

"Bill Ridgeway" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an
> 8Mb broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a
> telephone exchange.

I got 6Mb on normal ADSL, and I don't live next to the exchange.

> What's the situation with cable suppliers?

Virgin Media?
Bloody awful.

Bill Ridgeway wrote:

> Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an 8Mb
> broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a telephone
> exchange.

I have an 8128 kbps sync with a 7150 kbps profile which is the best you can
get with BT supplying the equipment.

I'm about 800 m from the exchange as the crow flies. A BT engineer once
mentioned a line length of 1.5 miles. That seems to be about right for getting
the max from BT's maxdsl.

Graham

Bill Ridgeway wrote:

> Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an 8Mb
> broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a telephone
> exchange.

You guess wrong. I had Griffin [BT IPstream] which synced up at 8128k, and I
live about 1.5km from the exchange [DMT says 1300-2900m]. I got about
3-5Mbps through. I'm on Be now, syncing at 15.2Mbps and getting about
13Mbps through [from sites like ftp.uk.debian.org, ie real world usage, not
speed tests]. Given that Griffin themselves say "Our experience is that
BT?s network is over-engineered and uncongested",

> What's the situation with cable suppliers?

Until Oct 2006 I had Blueyonder 10M cable which performed flawlessly.
Judging by the amount of pissing and moaning in here, things have gone
downhill since NTL took over.

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Bill Ridgeway <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
: Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an 8Mb
: broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a telephone
: exchange.

I get a 7000bps sync rate (~6Mb download) with Sky's LLU broadband - which
does not seem to have the same rate "profiles" that BT's version has.

This is about 3km from the exchange at an attenuation of 45dB. When ADSL
started BT said that I would get nothing more than 1Mb!

"Bill Ridgeway" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an 8Mb
> broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a telephone
> exchange.
>

I live about 1/4 mile away and I get full 8mb!

When I was with Virgin Media (Cable) I was lucky to get 3-4mb on 20mb
connection.

Roll on the SKY LLU which is happening here in the next 2 months ;0)

> What's the situation with cable suppliers?
>

Pah

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
> Bill Ridgeway <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near
>> an 8Mb broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a
>> telephone exchange.
>
> I get a 7000bps sync rate (~6Mb download) with Sky's LLU broadband -
> which does not seem to have the same rate "profiles" that BT's
> version has.

Different kit.
Next provider to update their kit in the exchange and the technical lead on
that exchange will swap around.


> This is about 3km from the exchange at an attenuation of 45dB. When
> ADSL started BT said that I would get nothing more than 1Mb!


And the year before ADSL, you got 44Kb on dial up. Its called progress,
things get better as the technology improves :-)




- Nigel

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"Brian McIlwrath" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Bill Ridgeway <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> : Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an
> 8Mb
> : broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a telephone
> : exchange.
>
> I get a 7000bps sync rate (~6Mb download) with Sky's LLU broadband - which
> does not seem to have the same rate "profiles" that BT's version has.
>
> This is about 3km from the exchange at an attenuation of 45dB. When ADSL
> started BT said that I would get nothing more than 1Mb!

I am with sky's LLU service as well, get on average approx 6Mb download as
well. I live around 1.5km from my exchange according to SAM.

On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:03:53 +0000, Eeyore
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>
>
>Bill Ridgeway wrote:
>
>> Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere near an 8Mb
>> broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to live next to a telephone
>> exchange.
>
>I have an 8128 kbps sync with a 7150 kbps profile which is the best you can
>get with BT supplying the equipment.
>
>I'm about 800 m from the exchange as the crow flies. A BT engineer once
>mentioned a line length of 1.5 miles. That seems to be about right for getting
>the max from BT's maxdsl.
>
>Graham

I'm 1.2 miles from the exchange and can barely get 3 meg let alone the
8 Meg they promised

On 07 Dec 2007, Custard wrote

> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:03:53 +0000, Eeyore
><(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Bill Ridgeway wrote:
>>
>>> Is it possible, better still does anyone actually get anywhere
>>> near an 8Mb broadband connection? I'd guess you'd have to
>>> live next to a telephone exchange.
>>
>> I have an 8128 kbps sync with a 7150 kbps profile which is the
>> best you can get with BT supplying the equipment.
>>
>> I'm about 800 m from the exchange as the crow flies. A BT
>> engineer once mentioned a line length of 1.5 miles. That seems
>> to be about right for getting the max from BT's maxdsl.
>>
>> Graham
>
> I'm 1.2 miles from the exchange and can barely get 3 meg let
> alone the 8 Meg they promised

"Promised?" Vas is das "promised"?

I don't know of any ISP that's rash enough to "promise" 8 meg; isn't
it always "up to 8 meg -- conditional on line length, phase of the
moon, and what we find in the entrails of that chicken over there"?

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