Tiscali / Talk Talk silent upgrade

We were on fairly reliable 7.6Mb (suposed to be 8Mb) connected speed
with Tiscali for years, then Talk Talk took over and it all started to
slow down. Over the past month it has picked up and back to reasonable
data tranfer speeds.

Last week I happened to check my routers connection speed and found it
is now connected at 17.2Mb. No mention of the upgrade from TT at all,
is this usual from TT?

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
>
> We were on fairly reliable 7.6Mb (suposed to be 8Mb) connected speed
> with Tiscali for years, then Talk Talk took over and it all started to
> slow down. Over the past month it has picked up and back to reasonable
> data tranfer speeds.
>
> Last week I happened to check my routers connection speed and found it
> is now connected at 17.2Mb. No mention of the upgrade from TT at all,
> is this usual from TT?

BT Wholesale has upgraded your exchange to Wholesale Broadband Connect
("WBC", part of the 21CN programme).

You're now on ADSL2+ rather than ADSL MAX, it appears. Odd that TT
didn't try to grab some of the credit.....

Gaius brought next idea :
> In article <(E-Mail Removed) >,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>>
>> We were on fairly reliable 7.6Mb (suposed to be 8Mb) connected speed
>> with Tiscali for years, then Talk Talk took over and it all started to
>> slow down. Over the past month it has picked up and back to reasonable
>> data tranfer speeds.
>>
>> Last week I happened to check my routers connection speed and found it
>> is now connected at 17.2Mb. No mention of the upgrade from TT at all,
>> is this usual from TT?
>
> BT Wholesale has upgraded your exchange to Wholesale Broadband Connect
> ("WBC", part of the 21CN programme).
>
> You're now on ADSL2+ rather than ADSL MAX, it appears. Odd that TT
> didn't try to grab some of the credit.....

Thanks, perhaps TT were not aware.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk

"Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:(E-Mail Removed). uk...
> We were on fairly reliable 7.6Mb (suposed to be 8Mb) connected speed with Tiscali for years, then Talk Talk took over and it all
> started to slow down. Over the past month it has picked up and back to reasonable data tranfer speeds.
>
> Last week I happened to check my routers connection speed and found it is now connected at 17.2Mb. No mention of the upgrade from
> TT at all, is this usual from TT?

Increased sync speed is one thing but your speed could still be artificially throttled to
previous levels.
What really matters is actual speeds measured
by the likes of http://www.speedtest.net or http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

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Graham.

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Graham. pretended :
> "Harry Bloomfield" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:(E-Mail Removed). uk...
>> We were on fairly reliable 7.6Mb (suposed to be 8Mb) connected speed with
>> Tiscali for years, then Talk Talk took over and it all started to slow
>> down. Over the past month it has picked up and back to reasonable data
>> tranfer speeds.
>>
>> Last week I happened to check my routers connection speed and found it is
>> now connected at 17.2Mb. No mention of the upgrade from TT at all, is this
>> usual from TT?
>
> Increased sync speed is one thing but your speed could still be artificially
> throttled to
> previous levels.
> What really matters is actual speeds measured
> by the likes of http://www.speedtest.net or
> http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest.html

It used to report a best figure of around 6.2Mb, but now that has moved
to a best of around 12.6Mb with a ping of 31mS to my nearest server.

I use http://www.speedtest.net, simply because it produces instant more
detailed results with no form filling to get to the results.

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Regards,
Harry (M1BYT) (L)
http://www.ukradioamateur.co.uk