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 to there is a paltry less than 1mbit > and often around 0.33mbit. whereas just up the road 4/5mbit is fairly > common.
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 than copper line?). > > I'm wondering if its a problem with the local lines, and if so, who I > would call about it? is it worth asking the engineer that connecting my > line next week to take a look? I'm not really looking for a miracle, but > I know that I used to live in the same area and got around 3mbit, until > it dropped to 2mbit. eventually suddenly shifting to 1mbit one day. Well, if you can hang on until about March next year, SamKnows suggests that FTTC is coming to the area so in theory you could possibly get up to 40Mbit/sec assuming you're connected to a cabinet which is upgraded and not too far away from it. SamKnows suggests that the speeds you'd get on FTTC (based on the postcode) is: Downstream Min: 21.2 Mbps Downstream Max: 29.5 Mbps Upstream Min: 9.5 Mbps Upstream Max: 13.3 Mbps So a tad faster than under 1Mbit. In the mean time there are some LLU providers at the exchange, so you might find you might get a bit better speed from an LLU provider using ADSL2+ (although maybe not that much). Saying that, if FTTC is coming to your local exchange maybe you might want to stick with a non LLU provider which might help you moving over to a FTTC product. You may also be able to get ADSL2+ at the moment from a non LLU provider, I guess the best bet is to speak to a provider such as Zen, PlusNet, Andrews and Arnold etc. Rob -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
