What broadband speed do you get? Mine has just doubled.....

[Nigelnaturist]

Not fully upto date, but I think the max on a dual channel n is 300Mbs in theroy.

 

[JoeyB]

Not fully upto date, but I think the max on a dual channel n is 300Mbs in theroy.

I've seen higher on my 5Ghz wireless connection, but not from a phone, pretty sure it was a laptop. 450Mbps seems to ring bells....range wasnt as good but thats the trade off with 5Ghz.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

There's a Better Broadband Suffolk scheme which is bringing far higher rates but large areas of the county are not included. Trying to find out if our village is part of it shows stories claiming it is but others saying it is only in the "guaranteed 2mb/s". The official website map has us as the latter. Picture below from that site has white areas as "2Mbps commitment", which seems to be basically doing naff all other than checking existing copper.

Despite being a scheme to boost rural access, all they've done is go for the more heavily populated areas that were next in line for BT to do anyway.

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like I said ramping up speeds to grab attention and new contracts is short sighted, they need a better infrastructure, as I said current speeds are ample for most current needs.

 

[marknotgeorge]

There's a fair bit that rural users can do to make the best of their connections, such as make sure the phone lines in the home are in good condition, the router/modem is plugged straight into the main socket, good quality filters, etc.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

I've seen higher on my 5Ghz wireless connection, but not from a phone, pretty sure it was a laptop. 450Mbps seems to ring bells....range wasnt as good but thats the trade off with 5Ghz.

You would get where i am from the router, last time i did a wireless test it was 1/3 of the speed I get, plus when things do change all we have to do is change the router everything else is good to 1Gb, I dont use mobile devices so is a non issue for me.

 

[JoeyB]

There's a fair bit that rural users can do to make the best of their connections, such as make sure the phone lines in the home are in good condition, the router/modem is plugged straight into the main socket, good quality filters, etc.

It all helps yes, but mostly just clutching at straws. Some of our customers based in semi rural locations really struggle with poor internet connectivity..

 

[T.M.H.N.E.T]

80mb just tested at 65

 

[guitarpete247]

.99Mbps download, .31 Mbps upload 73ms Ping. We are miles away from exchange. There is a campaign to try get a better service for ours and next village. The school over the road from me has fibre but no-one else does. We're all at the same rate. It's really slow when kids get home from school. Mobile phone network is also awful. We're on O2 but folks on 3, Vodaphone and ee are also pretty poor.

 

[Nigelnaturist]

@guitarpete247 anything other than O2 struggles in the house here.

 

[cyberknight]

Maximum i can get is 17 mbits if i upgraded to fastest bundle, currently hovering around 4 mbit s

 

[mcshroom]

Just checked mine: -

They've just installed Infinity round here and I'm currently considering upgrading.

 

[fossyant]

The new BT Hub 5 popped through the post today. Got to wait for the engineer on Thursday

 

[fossyant]

Standard ADSL. Upgrading to Fibre on Thursday

Just had Fibre connected... whoosh

 

[Nigelnaturist]

Just had Fibre connected... whoosh

From being slower than 60% of G.B. to faster than 93% great improvement, shame the company's can't get it sorted for the more rural areas.
Whats the connection, hardwired/wireless straight into the router, just want to see what mine is as a comparison on this network being the furthest away.

 

[fossyant]

From being slower than 60% of G.B. to faster than 93% great improvement, shame the company's can't get it sorted for the more rural areas.
Whats the connection, hardwired/wireless straight into the router, just want to see what mine is as a comparison on this network being the furthest away.

This is from an older PC, XP on a AMD Athlon 64. It's Cat5'ed to the router which is less than 2m away, and as the Hub 5 is Gigabit, the cable has been recognised as Gigabit by the network card. My previous Netgear router was 100mbps.

Our new laptop isn't connecting to the 5GHz signal on the router, but is getting 144mbps off the 2.4GHz connection. Downloads are nothing like the wired speed.

We do have a spare gigabit cable, but it's in the conservatory, and is too short now we've moved the room about (typical). Got an Xbox and a 2TB NAS attached to the other ports.

The connection is Fibre to the cabinet, which is about 200 yards away, then copper to the house.