Very slow connection

Massive Attack · 23 Mar 2008 at 19:09

hi guys im with AOL and currently pay for 2mb i have a Netgear DG834GT with the latest firmware and im getting these speeds:

basicly im looking into changing my isp and there are sooo many i just dont know which ones are good i dont really want to spend more than £20 p/m whats the best adsl provider that doesnt throttle or block torrent downloads.

Nymins · 23 Mar 2008 at 19:25

Be*/O2 if they are available in your area. Very fast and very cheap.

xb8browney · 23 Mar 2008 at 19:48

If you can get Be then go with them lower pings than any other ISP I have used and no restrictions and the price is even cheaper now. I only left them as I moved house

Massive Attack · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:00

i can get BE according to there webpage but it has the magic words of "up to" my line only supports 8mb so i guess the value package will do

Nymins · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:21

Massive Attack said:
i can get BE according to there webpage but it has the magic words of "up to" my line only supports 8mb so i guess the value package will do

Ill most likely get that too when my exchange goes live cause i live 3.19km from my exchange. Annoying cause i want to get the 24mb one because i think it will be faster than the 8mb one even though i wont get near 8mb on my line

tolien · 23 Mar 2008 at 20:44

Your DG834GT should give you values for attenuation/SNR margin and the speed it's connected at, which would let you judge whether you'd get any more from anyone else.

Massive Attack · 24 Mar 2008 at 00:00

tolien said:
Your DG834GT should give you values for attenuation/SNR margin and the speed it's connected at, which would let you judge whether you'd get any more from anyone else.

do you mean this?

so i take it i can only get 2mb, still gotta be better then 0.3mb tho eh

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tolien · 24 Mar 2008 at 01:02

No, it means you're connected at 2Mbps. You should get a good bit more, and there's an estimator in the sticky that'll give you some guess at what you might get.

Massive Attack · 24 Mar 2008 at 10:00

done the estimator says 8192kb sky seem to be the cheapest but what are they like?

tolien · 24 Mar 2008 at 10:07

You missed the bottom bit:

If your service provider uses ADSL2+ we estimate you may manage line speeds of: 14181kbps

Sky, Be et al use ADSL2+ in their LLU operations...

schnipps · 24 Mar 2008 at 10:10

Massive Attack said:
done the estimator says 8192kb sky seem to be the cheapest but what are they like?

Good, been with them for 8 months and their Customer Services has improved massively. Nearly always a UK person and they are very helpfull.

Massive Attack · 24 Mar 2008 at 10:23

tolien said:
You missed the bottom bit:

Sky, Be et al use ADSL2+ in their LLU operations...

well thats even better i have checked the samknows website and it says my exchange is llu enabled im a complete noob when it comes to internet/networks can i keep my router with llu?

tolien · 24 Mar 2008 at 10:29

So long as it does ADSL2+ it should be fine with Sky (but you'll have to jump through some hoops to get it working), but they'll send out a router.

Massive Attack · 24 Mar 2008 at 10:33

well i already have a netgear DG834GT which supports ADSL2+ how difficult is llu to setup then?

tolien · 24 Mar 2008 at 10:40

You're already on an LLU operator - BT Wholesale.
Sky don't give out the username/password for the ADSL, so the hoops I mentioned jumping through involve extracting it from the router.