Broadband

[time_bomb]

my virgin has been atrocious lately, its supposed to be 10 going up to 20 soon but its actually been only around 2, im just collecting pics of the speed to get a refund or free higher upgrade

[imhim]

how is this life with virgin 100mb broadband?

makes no motherf*cking sense... wifi speeds are only on 1 maybe 2 up in my bedroom... ffs so annoying...

this N ROUTER needs to hurry up and come to my house

[dub]

they're about to push up to 120mbps

I won't lie, I do approve of them pushing the boundaries but wouldn't it be best if they made everyone happy with their service first? Pretty sure like half their customers complain about downtime, even if its due to the routers that they don't manufacture, I don't see how 120mbps consumer broadband is necessary.

[Kurtis]

could have loads of devices connected at once

especially in well off middle class families

imagine your nice and have like 4 kids

thats 1 computer maybe plus 4 laptops/PC's, then tablets, smartphones, games consoles, networked TV's etc all using the same connection

[Jdot]

I need to get another Airport express for upstairs cos im only getting 40% of signal in my room. The mac gets the full 30Mb but the apple tv and xbox are only gettings 3 bars even though their next to the mac. So ill have to use another express as a repeater but heard you loose about 15-20% of ur bandwidth.

[imhim]

right now im in my room and my macbook pro shows 2 bars...

2 bloody bars...

[Jdot]

right now im in my room and my macbook pro shows 2 bars...

2 bloody bars...

same with some of my stuff like the ipad and xbox.

only solution i think is to get a wifi extender

[dub]

EE Fibre deals announced http://ee.co.uk/plan...ction-broadband

Not even more worth it than Virgin

[Kurtis]

went with BT

didnt know the prices had dropped (or i hadnt even noticed because i thought they were really high)

but its pretty much the same as EE that i was going for, without the connection fee cause my line rental is with BT already

long though cause i have to wait till December for the installation

[J. Edgar]

they're about to push up to 120mbps

I won't lie, I do approve of them pushing the boundaries but wouldn't it be best if they made everyone happy with their service first? Pretty sure like half their customers complain about downtime, even if its due to the routers that they don't manufacture, I don't see how 120mbps consumer broadband is necessary.

True. No-one aint getting 120 Mbps now. Wireless g is capped at 54 Mbps and thats with a very good signal. Ethernet is 108 Mbps.

[dub]

Nah Ethernet has been 1gb for a good few years and wireless 'n' protocol has been about for a while at 150mbps.

[Skola]

innit

gigabit ethernet ports on new routers

[Young £]

so does anyone actually have sky fibre?

how isit?

[Young £]

and which of Sky Cloud or BT ifinity or virgins equivalent have the most wifi ports when your out and about?

[Kurtis]

December 10th

80MB

gassed

[dub]

and which of Sky Cloud or BT ifinity or virgins equivalent have the most wifi ports when your out and about?

BT have the largest.

O2's is free for everyone. Sky's is just for Sky unlimited broadband subscribers.

Though Virgin Media have their London Underground hotspots which are only gonna be open to everyone until January, then its just Virgin, EE and Vodaphone subscribers.

[Kurtis]

BT's are all over the world

dunno about the rest

[Young £]

this correct?

BT Openzone are not part of o2 neither are The Cloud.

BT Openzone is owned and ran by BT

The cloud is a seperate public wi-fi network provider which is was recently bought by Sky

o2 have a contract with both BT and The Cloud so their customers can use BT Openzone and The Cloud.

Vodafone and Orange also have contracts with BT so their customers can use BT openzone.

To be honest ive only found the cloud at mcdonalds and its always been free, but if you dont have an o2 contract you have to make a cloud account to get free access and log in and all that , whereas if you have an o2 contract you just enter your o2 phone number and it lets you connect.

With BT Openzone you get free access to it out and about if you have BT broadband at home.

most of the clouds wifi is at shops?

ive always imagined these things to basically provide you with internet 90% of places you are, was I fooling myself? lol

[dub]

Nah BT is the one that everywhere. They have the most hotspots - and they cover city centres with it. They also extend it through BT home broadband routers so households that have BT broadband will let you connect (in exchange for them getting free access to the wifi service).

[Kurtis]

[mp*]

Dat low ping

[Kurtis]

the guy who install it was impressed

said its one of the best he's seen (he's the one who did the speed test)

said it might be down to my SSD or RAM or a combo of both

[Skola]

f*ck sake dave

(edit, im impressed, 80 meg, getting 75. wonder what it drops to in the evenings)

[dub]

nice

anyone tried TalkTalk's fibre broadband? pretty sure they're the cheapest but i need to see the quality

[imhim]