based in Wiltshire (funny thing
)
I live out in the sticks and our exchange is slower than a week in jail! My download speed is 500kb!
It's fine for browsing the net, but I watch a lot of football online and the slow speed means my reception can be pretty dodgy!
I've tried the 'dongle' doo-dahs, but they were pretty much useless... are there any satellite-dish type set-ups or big antenna
thingies that can receive fast downloads for us country-bumpkins?
[Edited on 11/8/10 by scootz]
Mate, if your download speed is 500Mb then I want some!! I think you mean 500kb lol!
We also live in the sticks and cannot even get 256Kb as the exchange is too far away. We have however got wireless broadband supplied by a local
company and we get up to 4Mb download and 1Mb upload. Costs us £25 per month which considering our other options (USB dongles with 3GB per month data
limit) I think that is well good.
We did look into the satellite solution before but it cost around £100 for the equipment and will only give you around 1Mb downlink and you still need
a phone line link (DSL) for the uplink as the satellite is only downlink to the premises.
HTH
[Edited on 11/8/10 by Daddylonglegs]
Ah yes... now amended!
Thanks for that... can I ask which company are you using?
Ta
Cotswold Wireless
based in Wiltshire (funny thing )
You could always get a second phone line and a second broadband connection...
Then buy a load balancer to allow you to add the connection speeds together...
Double the price, double the speed...
ISP in your exchange area do ADSL2 ? on any given line it doubles the speed compared to ADSL.
Just hold tight for a few years BT are pushing out their fibre network.
Fibre add a lot more years for us in the sticks great if you in a town and already getting decent speeds.
quote:
Originally posted by YQUSTA
Just hold tight for a few years BT are pushing out their fibre network.
You can get some pretty good speeds on 3G BB these days .... and a free lappy to do it with too! 
Cheers guys!
quote:
Originally posted by YQUSTA
Just hold tight for a few years BT are pushing out their fibre network.
I hate you people - I concider myself lucky to get 40kb/s where I live in Simon's Town. And pay about 12 Pounds per GB for the privelidge.
Almost impossible to watch YouTube never mind online TV etc.
quote:
Originally posted by Ivan
I hate you people - I concider myself lucky to get 40kb/s where I live in Simon's Town. And pay about 12 Pounds per GB for the privelidge.
Almost impossible to watch YouTube never mind online TV etc.
As said they will only install where the call volume/money is.
I take it you've done the normal checks with what youve got to increase speed.
Cheers,
Bob
I have Bob... I'm limited by the Exchange!
That's what Talktalk told me after 3 years of pestering their helpline asking why I was only getting 2Mb - then I went on their web based forum
and whoooosh, suddenly I was bombing along at 6Mb! It appears that they had 'applied the wrong profile' or something
im getting good/adequate speeds out of a vodafone dongle. No good if you have poor signal though. 
As a last test try this, take the lower front plate off of the NTE5 (BT's master socket) then unscrew the back plate at the rear of that you will
find the incoming wires marked A and B.
If your router is on an extension point away from the NTE5 it will normally be wired onto the back of the first part of the NTE5 onto connections 2
& 5, blue to 2 white blue to 5. Pull these 2 wires away from the IDC connector undo the 2 wires onto connections A & B bare back the blue and
white blue wires and just twist 1 onto the a wire and 1 onto the b wire.
What you have done is wired your router directly from the street and bypassed the ring capacitor inside the NTE5 which Ive found if a bit leaky
especially on a long run from the exchange can sometimes dampen BB speed.
Give your connection 5 mins to sync then try a speed test, 7 times out of ten Ive found you can see a difference if so I'll tell you what to do
next.
If your at all unsure of the above u2u me and I'll give you my number and talk you through it.
Cheers,
Bob
[Edited on 12/8/10 by splitrivet]
Cheers Bob!
Will have a look later!