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wicket - 29/1/08 at 05:05 PM

Anybody using Post Office Broadband, is OK?

Jubal - 29/1/08 at 05:10 PM

It is a white label service from BT Wholesale. I'm not sure that answers your question but in essence it's much the same as any other non LLU exchange broadband service.

Confused but excited. - 29/1/08 at 06:53 PM

I am currently using a service provided by BT Wholesale, ADSL Max. BT claim I should get 5.4Meg (I'm rural). Last two days has been 480K (yes I know that's slower than dial-up). Best ever connection speed;3.8Meg. Now getting!

Humbug - 29/1/08 at 07:20 PM

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Originally posted by Confused but excited.
I am currently using a service provided by BT Wholesale, ADSL Max. BT claim I should get 5.4Meg (I'm rural). Last two days has been 480K (yes I know that's slower than dial-up). Best ever connection speed;3.8Meg. Now getting!


You must have had fast dialup... I am not in a rural area, but I get 1Mbps. Asked about the 2 but it's not possible, apparently.

Yesterday t'internet was unusable I called the helpline and it seems there was "a known problem afecting some people's access to the internet and/or speed of accesing web pages that was being worked on". It came back on later, but slow. Today it seems to be back to normal.

Confused but excited. - 29/1/08 at 07:58 PM

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Originally posted by Humbug
quote:
Originally posted by Confused but excited.
I am currently using a service provided by BT Wholesale, ADSL Max. BT claim I should get 5.4Meg (I'm rural). Last two days has been 480K (yes I know that's slower than dial-up). Best ever connection speed;3.8Meg. Now getting!


You must have had fast dialup... I am not in a rural area, but I get 1Mbps.


What's fast about 512K dial-up?

McLannahan - 29/1/08 at 09:53 PM

Dialup was commonly 56k (it never reached but advertised as it!) Common speeds were 40k.

You could get ISDN at 512k but it was silly money!

I had a 9.6k modem as my first connection. Was quite good really but then I did have a 286 with 21mb hard drive...

Those were the days. Oh the mammaries...

ChrisW - 29/1/08 at 11:58 PM

ISDN at 512K??? Best I ever saw was 128k, and that was bonded (ie you paid twice as much per minute!)

Chris