BT Broadband - 2 hours in and all looking good!

Signed up for the £26.99 20GB deal with a free wireless router, and I have
to say I'm impressed!

Been with Pipex (twice) and NDO before and have to say the email polling is
lightning fast, and usenet is superfast also! Miles beter than the other
two!

Even though I am on 1MBit here, on my old 2MBit connection at my old house
this seems to be much more reliable!

Never thought I'd say this, but I'm really impressed with BT! (...and thanks
for the free wireless router!) LOL!

Simon

Also.... Would my line support 2MBit given the stats?

StatisticsDownstreamUpstream
Line Rate 1152 Kbps 288 Kbps
Noise Margin 26.8 dB 27.0 dB
Line Attenuation 49.0 dB 28.0 dB
Output Power 16.9 dBm 11.8 dBm

BT say not sure, so they bunged me on 1MBit.

Simon

Simon Ough wrote

> Signed up for the £26.99 20GB deal with a free wireless router, and I have
> to say I'm impressed!
>
> Been with Pipex (twice) and NDO before and have to say the email polling is
> lightning fast, and usenet is superfast also! Miles beter than the other
> two!

Big deal. What are you going to do with the minute you think you've
saved every day?

> Even though I am on 1MBit here, on my old 2MBit connection at my old house
> this seems to be much more reliable!

After 2 hours use?


> Never thought I'd say this, but I'm really impressed with BT! (...and thanks
> for the free wireless router!) LOL!
>

There's one born every minute. I'm gonna have to start up my own ISP.
How does "Trotters of Paris & Peckham" sound?

Simon Ough wrote

> Also.... Would my line support 2MBit given the stats?
>
> StatisticsDownstreamUpstream
> Line Rate 1152 Kbps 288 Kbps
> Noise Margin 26.8 dB 27.0 dB
> Line Attenuation 49.0 dB 28.0 dB
> Output Power 16.9 dBm 11.8 dBm
>
> BT say not sure, so they bunged me on 1MBit.
>

You should stick to the 1Mb pipe. You don't want to grab that 20gb too
quickly. You'd have nothing to do by Thursday.

"MinusNet" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:438b8a16$0$77076$(E-Mail Removed) reenews.net...

> You should stick to the 1Mb pipe. You don't want to grab that 20gb too
> quickly. You'd have nothing to do by Thursday.

Any sensible answers?

20GB is plenty for me, and if it isn't, I'll upgrade to the 40GB product.

Not all of us download via P2P you know!

Muppet!

"Simon Ough" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:dmg0ra$1oh$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Also.... Would my line support 2MBit given the stats?
>
> StatisticsDownstreamUpstream
> Line Rate 1152 Kbps 288 Kbps
> Noise Margin 26.8 dB 27.0 dB
> Line Attenuation 49.0 dB 28.0 dB
> Output Power 16.9 dBm 11.8 dBm
>
> BT say not sure, so they bunged me on 1MBit.
>
> Simon


Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 2272 Kbps 288 Kbps
Noise Margin 18.3 dB 25.0 dB
Line Attenuation 49.0 dB 27.0 dB
Output Power 18.5 dBm 11.6 dBm


Here My Two meg i`m marginal according to bt hence the wireless router
downstairs no extension leads

On 28 Nov 2005 23:03, "Simon Ough" wrote:

>Any sensible answers?

The 49 dB loss is over the current (and probably long term) 43 dB limit for
getting 2000 kbps.

>20GB is plenty for me, and if it isn't, I'll upgrade to the 40GB product.

Hmmmm, traffic here for Saturday was 8.96 GB. Usage depends on household.

>Not all of us download via P2P you know!

Although initially they only said it was unsuitable for 'file sharing' and
heavy downloading, Plus.Net now says that peer-to-peer and USENET on the
Broadband Plus is "possible but not guaranteed". My recent experience
has shown traffic to be close to 0 kB/s at anytime, 24x7, for those
who try to access news servers holding binary newsgroups (their own, or
some external service, which a customer might be paying to access!!). No,
in this case none of the traffic was from using peer-to-peer (no s/w to
try it), and hardly anything would have been from USENET (as it will only
give timeout errors most of the time, not even getting newsgroup lists or
a set of headers, for a group such as alt.binaries.pictures.tall-ships).

--

UK ADSL <http://tinyurl.com/5jpa4>...
I save with Plus.Net on Broadband Plus at 14.99.
My reply-to address is valid - please add USENET to subject.

On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 22:45:41 -0000, MinusNet <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Simon Ough wrote
>
>> Signed up for the £26.99 20GB deal with a free wireless router, and I have
>> to say I'm impressed!
>>
>> Been with Pipex (twice) and NDO before and have to say the email polling is
>> lightning fast, and usenet is superfast also! Miles beter than the other
>> two!
>
>Big deal. What are you going to do with the minute you think you've
>saved every day?
>
>> Even though I am on 1MBit here, on my old 2MBit connection at my old house
>> this seems to be much more reliable!
>
>After 2 hours use?
>
>
>> Never thought I'd say this, but I'm really impressed with BT! (...and thanks
>> for the free wireless router!) LOL!
>>
>
>There's one born every minute. I'm gonna have to start up my own ISP.
>How does "Trotters of Paris & Peckham" sound?
>

I've been with BT since 512K openworld (woe) days, then 1Mb then 2Mb -
the past 3 months it takes ages to get a good logon whereby
traceroutes and pings test show no problem (yes, repeatedly, zero
loss) - but, if I log back on it can take 2 days to get that good - if
I stay logged on, can be great for 8days+.

But, having grabbed much more than 40GB in a month, I have now
migrated (any day now) to Zen. Other countries in europe, Japan, USA,
and some other countries have faster speeds with no d/l limits and
cheaper - BT are just trying to cash in as they are losing money from
other companies and people talking (voice) or the net.

Sod them - they now have lost a customer giving them £400/yr, I am off
to Zen which is £5/month dearer, has better support, it's own ng's,
etc, and no caps at all.

>> Even though I am on 1MBit here, on my old 2MBit connection at my old
>> house
>> this seems to be much more reliable!
>
>After 2 hours use?



Sod them - they now have lost a customer giving them £400/yr, I am off
to Zen which is £5/month dearer, has better support, it's own ng's,
etc, and no caps at all.

After 0 hours use!