Broadband

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Several years ago I had seen some BT men installing new fibre optic cables beside the main road where we are based in Derbyshire. I checked with them and was told possible to have high speed broadband now.

 

I did all the forms and credit check with BT and someone came down and marked the area to dig and left us some Grey plastic pipes with a cord to pull line new through.

 

STILL WAITING and can at present access 1MB.

 

Advice and ideas? A different method of broadband?

[NI Tree]

move closer to the phone exchange

[slasherscot]

Exchange Status Checker

 

check out ur local exchange.......see who has their Own equipment installed not just BT....most companies use BT... and the bandwith and speed can be slow due to too many users

 

cheers

[NFG]

Hmm,

 

Firstly, I suspect the relatively slow 1Mb/s you achieve is due to distance from your exchange, however there are many factors that affect BB speed, no the 50 year old copper is not good but there are a few things worth trying:

 

You may like to try removing the master socket & connecting your router directly to the socket inside your master socket (nothing else connected) & doing a speed test, so if you have a noisy extension dragging the connection speed down then speed should/will improve.

 

Also you may consider disconnecting the bell wire, there are plenty of 'how to' if you google it, the bell wire can pick up interference and is now redundant.

 

Its regrettable that BT have the lions share of the broadband market in the UK, their organisation is clumsy, support is fairly abysmal & slow to respond (unless you're late paying) but generally their engineers are pretty good.

 

For a long time I suspected that BT changed the waveform of their ADSL I had so many clients who used them found their connection problematic or even disconnected until the router had its firmware updated.

 

If you cannot get fibre then perhaps look at some of the good quality providers, which in my opinion (having installed several hundred ISPs & various routers over the years) are:

 

IDNet - excellent

Zen Internet

AAISP - probably the best

 

Quite good are

Eclipse Internet

Plusnet

Demon

 

I do not work for any of the above organisations, the website thinkbroadband :: The UK's largest independent Broadband / ADSL troubleshooting website (incorporating news, reviews and comparisons)

 

will also help decide on your ISP.

 

The above comments my views from many years hands on sleeves up & other posters views & opinions may be different.

 

Bon chance

 

N

Edited December 1, 2011 by NFG
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Thanks for those useful links. BT's last update in that area from the postcode was 30/03/2006 (Said no date on WBC 21CN)

 

Will look into alternative possible broadband as Openreach man said the firm is slow although cables are there in the grid and could be connected.

 

It might all go wrong when the sun changes poles in December 2012.