Broadband Pressure Group

[cjbell68]

Well done adwoodrow - even if its a bit costly at least you've managed to get something provided that doesn't rely on BT (well - apart from Openreach support that is for the copper bit).

Tantalising news lacking detail about funding for improvements from the government (maybe not so great if it only covers notspots though - still there doesn't seem to be much cash about at the moment!)

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2010/0 ... spots.html

Colin

[po0ncake]

i don't know if this has been posted before but it looks interesting

http://www.vtessebroadband.co.uk/index.cfm/register

[cjbell68]

Vtesse looks worth a look - hmm - mostly anything that might get us more consistent and higher speeds in the village is worth a look!

Disappointing news government wise regarding 2mb for all.
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/4314 ... -2015.html

Disappoint but not surprising.
Colin

[po0ncake]

That will be us, still on 2mb internet in 2015

[cjbell68]

You may be right, unless there is sufficient local interest with perhaps support with a grant from somewhere or other (sounds a bit pie-in-the-sky however clearly there are grants being made as seen in recent news).

I've registered interest with Vtesse - although I was looking for details on their usage policies etc and couldn't find these immediately to hand on the site - would be just typical - get infrastructure capable of delivering faster speeds consistently - then find out there's a 512MB per month usage cap - or they run it too contended!

Colin

[cjbell68]

Looking back I saw Fruitbat's post 23rd June re. Talk Talk so I had a look at the exchange list and they suggest they're providing more capacity in August.

http://www.talktalkmembers.com/content/view/109/149

May give people more choice - and depending on how adwoodrow is getting on perhaps slightly better performance?

Colin

[po0ncake]

yeah, we'll just have to hope haha. These slow speeds are getting a bit too much for me.

Also i received an e-mail back from sky after i'd asked about any future plans because our connection is SO bad, i was greeted with a lovely questionnaire... "Is your 'Broadband Box' plugged into the master telephone socket? Are all the lights on your 'Broadband Box' correct? (with a nice diagram) Are you receiving intermittent connection problems? If so try using the yellow Ethernet cable provided."

Useful or what.

Only piece of criticism, I've never heard of one of these broadband box devices more diagrams please

[cjbell68]

Sounds just like SKY

I used to subscribe for TV years ago but left - they periodically rang me or sent mailshots - I remember speaking to a bloke once and explaining I'd sign up for their service if I got the bundled deal with TV, phone, broadband etc - but unless they unbundled the exchange it wasn't ever going to be an option. All they could ever do was offer me their expensive BT Wholesale re-sold product...

Still - give it another 10 to 15 years and I bet we'll look back and laugh (HA!)

Colin

[NickT]

cjbell68

I am with sky and have tv, telephone and broadband with them, but only pay £7 for the broadband, and all I did was ask, they gave it to me for 12 months, when it ran out, I called them and asked them to reinstate the deal or I would leave, they did it and back dated it 1 month, I also dont pay full price for the telephone line rental.

Nick

[adwoodrow]

Very disappointing that the government has reneged on its previous statements about 2Mb for all. Five years to wait for that is just too much so I am planning to ship out. The SharedBand solution I've got at present does alleviate it somewhat, so we do get around 2Mb now, but from 2 lines at a total cost of around £60 per month. As usual when it rains the sync speeds worsen, with TalkTalk its still running over BT Openreach's cable network, just the kit in the exchange is a little better. I'm not sure quite how SharedBand works, but they automatically run speed tests every 4 hours. Latest ones are given below, in case anybody is interested.
Talk Talk Up, Down BT Up, Down
14-Jul-10 07:50 410 1851 327 701
14-Jul-10 08:16 433 1411 364 705
14-Jul-10 11:50 433 1192 327 934
14-Jul-10 15:50 433 978 327 941
14-Jul-10 19:50 474 1059 327 941
14-Jul-10 22:08 433 922 333 965
14-Jul-10 23:50 449 1113 327 941
15-Jul-10 03:50 433 1402 328 934
15-Jul-10 07:50 451 1183 326 941
15-Jul-10 11:50 449 1199 338 941
15-Jul-10 15:50 434 1286 324 941
15-Jul-10 19:50 436 1286 362 941
15-Jul-10 21:10 432 1402 328 941

Any advice wanted I'd be happy to explain.

Alex