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Originally Posted by Penlid
I'm on ADSL Max package with BT, aka upto 8mb.
I'm aware of the factors taken into consideration with line speed, aka distance from exchange and what not.
But is a broadband connection slower than 56k dial up acceptable, and are BT breaking their contract with me.
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Actually they are
last time I had dealings with pipex when I was getting very abysmal speeds (less than 70kb/s on an 8mb line) they pointed the fingert at BT and clearly said something along the lines of "This is an issue that can be fixed, if it isn't fixed we will take matters further with BT" also stating that on an 8mb broadband package the absolute minimum you should be getting is around 2mb's during peak hours... at the moment i'm on Supanet once again i'm getting the same problem as I was with pipex (less than 70kb/s) on an 8mb line during peak hours due to a BT exchange which can't support the peak traffic which might I add BT keep claiming they've fixed.
After peak hours from an adsl speedtest i'm getting
6300kb/s / 365kb/s (giving me roughly
800kb/s dl speed and 45kb/s upload speed)
During peak hours around
150kb/s / 365kb/s - Notice how the upload remains completely unaffected. - this makes me rather angry as I can't play bandwidth sensitive games at all...
Conclusion BT are a bunch of skin flint ***** that can do pretty much what they want due to owning most of the exchanges around england.
i'll post a few screenies after 6pm and show just how bad it is