ADSL upgrade time?

[moomin]

My exchange will soon hit the target level (w00t), however, I've not a clue how long it'll take to upgrade. Now I'm sure many peeps here must have endured this process, so a little feed back on eta of upgrade would be nice. (i.e. 1 month, 2 months, get on your knees and pray to jebus etc)

 

[Embattle]

I doubt many have since I think about only 3 exchanges have made this target level of users that BT created a while back.

 

[old.RedVenom]

ONLY 3? WOWIE ZOWIE I MUST KNOW PEOPLE IN ALL THOSE LUCKY 3 AREAS THEN WHAT A COINCIDENCE.

 

[moomin]

Bt have cut the activation level across the country by about 20%, so in fact a lot of peeps will soon have exchanges that will reach trigger level


see www.adslguide.org

 

[nath]

lol rv. you're so shit :\

 

[old.RedVenom]

I prefer the term 'tart'.

Anyway, it wouldn't happen if Emb wasn't so damn STUPID.

 

[Nos-]

(Don't go with Nildram)

 

[old.RedVenom]

Nildram rock. Unequivically.

 

[Nos-]

My 40k/s sustained download speed and 6 hourly cut offs disagree with you :/

 

[Testin da Cable]

my 850Kb/s dl speeds and 24x7 onlineness make you look a bit pish Nos

 

[old.RedVenom]

Perhaps you should check your line, and/or your service.

Mine, and everyone else I know with the service is fine.

 

[nath]

Pipex used to be great, but now I get shitty downloads. And I know it's not my line because I max out my line while downloading from the newsgroups (pipex servers) but get 15k from an ftp I used to get 62k non stop from.

 

[old.Reverend Flatus]

Originally posted by Nos-
(Don't go with Nildram)

Originally posted by Nos-
My 40k/s sustained download speed and 6 hourly cut offs disagree with you :/

Nildram are ok. The few times I've had problems they've sorted it out pretty quickly. You tried calling them?

 

[Mr.Monkey]

Originally posted by nath
Pipex used to be great,

Pipex used to suck donkey wang.

They didn't peer properly with any other UK firm, and as a result traffic to the EU was routed via: Washington DC.....

teh winn0r.

They are better now, but they went within an inch of being bankrupt.
Teh gay.

 

[-fus-]

BtO all the way. 60kb/s constand downstream. 24 ping.














No? Ok then.

 

[dysfunction]

I have gone with ZenADSL.

And so far they have been superb!

Fast downloads...low pings...etc etc

:great:

 

[Sar]

BTO, cos I'm a lazy bastard.

 

[mank!]

ntl thx

 

[Sar]

<-Used to be NTL until I moved in with the fiancée.

Not much difference apart from cost.

:/

 

[stu]

On the Trigger Exchanges, the reaching of the trigger level is only the first step. BT then want 75% (I think) of those people who registered their interest to file confirmed orders for DSL before they start upgrading the hardware. So you've got a while to wait.

As for my experience, I've had both BTO and Nildram. BTO was great for about 2 weeks, then rapidly turned to shit. I only really noticed how bad it was after I switched to Nildram, and everything just happened... 'more briskly'. Although like anything else, for every person to tell you one service is good there'll be another to tell you it's shit. General consensus of Nildram seems to be good though, they usually win the adslguide survey things.

 

[Any]

Originally posted by dysfunction
I have gone with ZenADSL.

And so far they have been superb!

Fast downloads...low pings...etc etc

:great:

Seconded.

Take a look at the forums at www.adslguide.org.uk and see what people are saying.

 

[Embattle]

Think I'll stick with BY

 

[moomin]

ack so I'll be looking around septemeber october time beforce my exchange is upgraded


gawd Damn


well at least at uni I have a 10mbit LAN connection to jaNET

10 ping yum



EDIT :: whens BarryBear coming to Manchester

 

[ECA]

Originally posted by stu
On the Trigger Exchanges, the reaching of the trigger level is only the first step. BT then want 75% (I think) of those people who registered their interest to file confirmed orders for DSL before they start upgrading the hardware. So you've got a while to wait.

Nope they stopped doing the confirmed order thingeh a few months back.

 

[Meatballs]

Originally posted by Nos-
My 40k/s sustained download speed and 6 hourly cut offs disagree with you :/

I get 59/60k/s off good FTPs, and I havn't had it drop on me for a few weeks.

 

[Nos-]

I used to get that level of service, but recently random disconnects and poor download speeds have become frequent

 

[old.LittleDwarf]

My exchange reached the trigger a few weeks back - have a date of 20th August for it being available, so you're looking at about 8-10 weeks.