How to establish max possible ADSL speed for a given telephone number/ exchange

Hi

Looking into migrating my parents from EFH Broadband as they have just
come to the end of their first year at £9.99 / month, now gone up to
£15.99 for uncapped 512k.

Looks like one of the best deals is PlusNet at £14.99 for uncapped 2Meg
service and no migration fee, BUT

they live in a small rural village and I am not sure if they can get
faster than 512k, so maybe it is not worth the effort and hassle of
migrating if they cannot get a faster service.

So my question is - is there a site that I can enter their phone number
/ exchange and find out what the line is capable of???

Any help / advice (or alternative deals) greatly appreciated.

Cheers

DeeBee

DeeBee wrote:
> Hi
>
> Looking into migrating my parents from EFH Broadband as they have just
> come to the end of their first year at £9.99 / month, now gone up to
> £15.99 for uncapped 512k.
>
> Looks like one of the best deals is PlusNet at £14.99 for uncapped 2Meg
> service and no migration fee, BUT
>
> they live in a small rural village and I am not sure if they can get
> faster than 512k, so maybe it is not worth the effort and hassle of
> migrating if they cannot get a faster service.
>
> So my question is - is there a site that I can enter their phone number
> / exchange and find out what the line is capable of???
>
> Any help / advice (or alternative deals) greatly appreciated.
>
> Cheers
>
> DeeBee
There's a link somewhere on the BT web page, but this one on Virgin.net
is easier to find.
http://www.virgin.net/internetaccess...d/?buspart=241
Just enter the phone number and postcode and it should tell you what
speed the line is capable of supporting.

its just a yes or no .

DeeBee wrote:
>
> Looks like one of the best deals is PlusNet at £14.99 for uncapped
> 2Meg service and no migration fee,

It is not really uncapped you know. Use too much and you will be throttled
or, in the extreme, "assisted to move to another provider".

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Dave wrote:
> DeeBee wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Looking into migrating my parents from EFH Broadband as they have just
>> come to the end of their first year at £9.99 / month, now gone up to
>> £15.99 for uncapped 512k.
>>
>> Looks like one of the best deals is PlusNet at £14.99 for uncapped
>> 2Meg service and no migration fee, BUT
>>
>> they live in a small rural village and I am not sure if they can get
>> faster than 512k, so maybe it is not worth the effort and hassle of
>> migrating if they cannot get a faster service.
>>
>> So my question is - is there a site that I can enter their phone
>> number / exchange and find out what the line is capable of???
>>
>> Any help / advice (or alternative deals) greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Cheers
>>
>> DeeBee
>
> There's a link somewhere on the BT web page, but this one on Virgin.net
> is easier to find.
> http://www.virgin.net/internetaccess...d/?buspart=241
> Just enter the phone number and postcode and it should tell you what
> speed the line is capable of supporting.

Yep, that just says then can get b/b and in fact says they already have it !

cheers anyway

DeeBe

Old Codger wrote:
> DeeBee wrote:
>
>>Looks like one of the best deals is PlusNet at £14.99 for uncapped
>>2Meg service and no migration fee,
>
>
> It is not really uncapped you know. Use too much and you will be throttled
> or, in the extreme, "assisted to move to another provider".
>
Yes I am aware of the PsNet policy, but they don't really need uncapped,
as they are not heavy downloaders and do not p2p at all - silver
surfers. Just wanted to take advantage of a faster service if possible....

cheers

DeeBee

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php

...then when it says "yes you can but there's a compatibility problem because
you already have broadband" (or some such).. click on the more details
button for BT ADSL (or any LLU supplier available in your area)

DeeBee wrote


> > It is not really uncapped you know. Use too much and you will be throttled
> > or, in the extreme, "assisted to move to another provider".
> >
> Yes I am aware of the PsNet policy, but they don't really need uncapped,
> as they are not heavy downloaders and do not p2p at all - silver
> surfers. Just wanted to take advantage of a faster service if possible....
>

To download fuck all faster?

The mind boggles.

Check here
http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/

DeeBee wrote:
> Hi
>
> Looking into migrating my parents from EFH Broadband as they have just
> come to the end of their first year at £9.99 / month, now gone up to
> £15.99 for uncapped 512k.
>
> Looks like one of the best deals is PlusNet at £14.99 for uncapped
> 2Meg service and no migration fee, BUT

Think you aught to be more worried about this £14.99 2Mb, uncapped
service from Plusnet. If they are capping & traffic shapping their
premium services I'd hate to think how they will treat their base level
one.

Mind you having said that maybe it would be ideal, but check, double
check & then check again...