Broadband

rossy you would defo benefit for the upgrade to 10mb for £5

Your broadband is effectively free at the moment on that package.

one possibly for Zegermans like but im being tol sky wont let u use any other modem/router apart from their own, and u cant even upgrade to an N router. i seen a canny deal on a wireless n kit and fancy making the switch cos G is having grief playing 1080p films over the network. whats the skinny, also hs anyone seen any decent deals on a modem/router and usb stick kit?

im sure i saw something on mysky.com or some website along those lines. failiing that, give them a ring.

rossy with the 10meg you get a 10gig download limit

lee, which router do you have now? give me your account number il get a new one sorted for ya!

also you can use different router and dongle's but fuck knows how you do it. sky wont touch it if anything goes wrong either! the black netgear/sagem phase 2 routers are not to bad though!

^ to be fair thats still probs not enough for Rossy - I'd imagine he'd be safer on 30gig+ or "unlimited" which can mean 40-60 gig 'fair usage'

i only found out last year that there weren't any 'true' unlimited services on ADSL - i dunno if that changed more recently.. BE claimed to be unlimited and even they weren't 'truely' when i last checked.

you could get away with going over it for 1 or 2 months - if you're with a good service provider they wrote you a letter, if you were with a rubbish one they capped your downloads or slowed your connection.

I do a no-contract offer for upto 24mb download ADSL2 + Line Rental + calls package for £24.99 per month with free wireless router + 'unlimited' (60gb fair usage)

or £19.99 for 24mb ADSL2 connection, 40gb limit + Line Rental and calls + free 4 port wired router .

This is only to LLU exchanges (upgrades which occurred in most areas in recent years).

You can check if you are capable of getting it here.

/plug

If 40-60gb was 'unlimited' fair usage then sky would have sacked me off years ago, unless you mean daily and not monthly

Actually i've just done some reading up of some up to date stuff on Sky - if you're on an unlimited sky package you're unlikely to get hit by anything as of a year ago after I left them - they're canny leniant on FUPs these days.

I blatantly wont ring them, I'll just continue whinge about it haha

FAO: ROSSY

I am just getting my head round this Quidco shit (speak to Si Quick for more info) but looking at http://www.quidco.com/o2-home-broadband/ you could get a Premium Package from 02 for £0 for 12 months with the free months + your cashback

Details of 02 packages: http://broadband.o2.co.uk/home/packages.jsp

i went straight to last post there, and your Mouse sig just tricked me again!!

anyone in the know with slky broadband tell me if this is normal?

Connection Speed 10239 kbps 825 kbps
Line Attenuation 17.0 db 7.3 db
Noise Margin 22.6 db 15.0 db


the connection sppeds aint bad although i know they can improve as ive had an 18mbps connection in this house.

How do you find out the line attenuation and noise margin?

It's on the netgear router statistics.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3342 kbps 796 kbps
Line Attenuation 57.5 db 30.1 db
Noise Margin 6.4 db 10.5 db

Those are mine then, anything look wrong with those?except the shit download speed

My internets driving me round the bend, every so often it starts to run like shit so when i do a speed test I'm gettin less than 1mb!, i'm paying for 10mb, sometimes when i do a speed test I'll get 9 -10mb, but this 1mb shit is just takin the fucking piss like

Tried reseting my modem/router, still it runs like ditch water

P.s I'm with virgin think it's time i went to B.T

virgin through a phoneline or cable?

Through cable m8

you're being traffic shaped by virgin. http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

while it is an unlimited download service, once you hit the download limit for the day, you get throttled for a few hours.

Still, even with the throttling, cable broadband is a much better service than ADSL over dodgy old copper phonelines.

A had a feeling it may be that, still a dnt understand as i very rarely download, odd tunes n podcasts thats about it really.