Since I last posted about this, BT have proudly announced that they have upgraded to fibre in our area! Well up to the local street box anyway.
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They have have probably taken out the incoming copper lines from all the pins and wrapped fibre around the metal pins and thought that would suffice!), but they also proudly put a sticker on the street box, so it most be OK!!
I have also just changed from AOL to TalkTalk (
who own AOL), and now get my phone through TalkTalk on the same BT line. They offered me a massive financial incentive to change, (
it will save me £500 plus over the next two years).
The last reading from a couple of years ago, before the BT upgrades, was about 2.5 Mbps for Downloads, with the usual BT upload limit of sub 0.4 Mbps
I took a sample on the last day, (17/11) with AOL, which gave
2.9 download (not bad) and
1.2 upload (good news!).
Upgraded to TalkTalk, (
without any service break as it stayed on the same BT line and central AOL routers), also swapped the router to a new smaller unit supplied by TalkTalk, which I was told would be much better.
Tested again and initially got between
2.2 and
2.6 download and between
1.0 and 1.2 upload.
A couple of days ago it all started to seriously slow down and yesterday morning it would hardly work at all until around tea time there was nothing.
Did all the usual resets, then repaced all the filters and cables between the line socket and router, (
ethernet from here to PC and then WiFi through the bungallow), still no internet service, although all WiFi OK.
Swapped to the old AOL router and it started to work, although a bit slow.
I re-tried the Talk Talk router and NFU, thought that's it the new router is f****d, so went back to old AOL unit again, (which had just worked OK), and now had no bloody internet with that.
Spent many hours, I won't detail, until I finall got it running at 03.30 hrs on the old AOL D-Link router. I also ended up changing the WiFi set up to get better more equal coverage through the house. I finally got to bed around 03.30 hrs, very tired but happier.
Still working this morning, but the best speeds today have been
1.28 Mbps download and
0.41 Mbps upload with a Ping time of 68 Ms (average of 40Ms before).
Don't you just like progress and improvements !!!???
The TalkTalk sales bloke said I should get 3.8 Mbps when selling me the deal.
How can you get such great "improvements" when everything is really the same, same old router, same BT line, (now from TalkTalk) and same internet provider (AOL TalkTalk)??
Will let you know if things get better.
Really glad I don't live out in the sticks!
