Internet Speed! :(

[mishra]

I was with TalkTalk for over 3 years. They increased the price for me and put me on different deal, when I changed my house meanwhile - claiming they cannot keep my old contract in place! I was paying for up to 8Mbps but never got more than 3.5Mbps!
Had to restart router every 2 days.. in order to keep decent speeds. Was complaining 3 times, and got sent 2 diff routers. Routers made little difference... 2nd one had broken wireless, and 3rd one kept disconnecting... I threw the towel! Never again, that rubbish company!

I'm now with Viring Media. Paying £17.50 for up to 30Mbps, just checked right now with speedtest: ping: 9ms, download: 31.58Mbps, upload: 1.97Mbps
Cannot ask for better service! Virgin is amazing.. at least for me. Definitively recommend

[Enflame]

I am just putting this out there. But most of these companies have a very clever marketing poly to make you swap and that is not aactually giving you the correct statistic. They give there read outs in mega bits however we all download things in megabytes per second. A mega bit is significantly smaller then a bytes and allows the speed to sound much higher than it is I believe there is 8 bits to a byte what ever number you are gven by the phone company ypou must divide it by that number and you get your download per mb/s speed that you were promised hope that shed some light on this.

[Music Guy123]

I know the reason why I have got such a slow internet! It is because I live 5 miles away from the last point of fibre optic connection. Therefore, I have five miles of copper cable! Which kills me! True, some people get exactly what they pay for but, in general, most people don't get the exact amount, normally it is slightly less.

[JamesMLB]

I'm back on the forums after nearly 6 months!!! :P

I'm with Orange at the moment, and our speed has dropped from 2.9 mb down and 0.3 up to 0.9 down and 0.3 up because we have decided to make the switch to BT Infinity 2.
Our predicted speed is 60mb tho but its going to be a difference at least
It's getting installed on the 23rd

[Craigsup]

Talk talk offer cheap fire optics. We've recently upgraded from normal broadband to fibre. Before I got 4mb/s but now I get around 30mb/s. Download speeds of 2.5-3.5mb/s. They run fibre optics to your nearst green box from the exchange and then use the existing copper wire from the green box to your house. Copper wire is fine for short distance - we lose no speed at all (the engineer checked this about 5 times).
Talk talk are fairly cheap for fibre optics but you still get fantastic speeds!

[bencot]

I live approx 2 miles from the closest exchange, im with sky and I get 1.23 down and 0.51 up. It truly is awful, hopefully moving somewhere with fibre optic soon though.