Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-13 Thread Gordon Allott
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 16:51 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote: > Hi all, > > So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the > local area shows something... suspicious. > http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn > > namely that in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Yorvyk wrote: > I do have my doubts about the speeds shown on this site. It shows my > street at less than 1Mb, despite the fact had an upgrade three months ago > and now get 3-3.5 Mb. My friends village shows speeds only available with > fibre-optic, which it do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-12 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:51:07 +0100 Gordon Allott wrote: > Hi all, > > So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the > local area shows something... suspicious. > http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn > > namely that in t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Beard
On 11/08/10 17:19, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > > Remember that line speed estimates are hugely conservative, and also > depend on sync speeds of those in the area. If cabling is of a low > standard then sync will be very low. That's very true, I just went to the original site which Gordon posted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Tansom
** Gordon Allott [2010-08-11 16:38]: > So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the > local area shows something... suspicious. > http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn > > namely that in the area I'm moving to there is a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 11 August 2010 17:11, Rob Beard wrote: > On 11/08/10 16:51, Gordon Allott wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the >> local area shows something... suspicious. >> http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postco

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 11/08/10 17:11, Rob Beard wrote: > Looks like it's down to line length. I've done a check with the > postcode on SamKnows.com and it appears the distance from the exchange > is nearly 2KM, but chances are the line length could be much longer (or > maybe it's something like an aluminium rather

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Rowson
> Hi all, > > So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the > local area shows something... suspicious. > > http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn > > namely that in the area I'm moving to there is a paltry less than 1mbit >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Beard
On 11/08/10 16:51, Gordon Allott wrote: > Hi all, > > So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the > local area shows something... suspicious. > http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn > > namely that in the area I'm moving t

[ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Gordon Allott
Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn namely that in the area I'm moving to there is a paltry less than 1mbit and often around