Anyone else getting really slow broadband?

[reflexboy]

Friday, 6.30pm...my 40meg Infinity broadband is currently running at 0.05meg. Is anyone else's running slow too? The BT help page says the problem is ongoing but can't find anything else on the net about it?

 

[rob_miller]

Friday, 6.30pm...my 40meg Infinity broadband is currently running at 0.05meg. Is anyone else's running slow too? The BT help page says the problem is ongoing but can't find anything else on the net about it?

Mine is very slow and keeps dropping out too.

 

[davidjpowell]

me too i think

 

[reflexboy]

Within the last few mins I'm back upto just under 40meg. Wooo hooo. You guys back to normal?

 

[Harrythedog]

Mine too and I'm also on BT

 

[rob_miller]

You guys back to normal?

Yes. :bannana:

 

[neilz]

Mine never went down, I feel left out! Use IDNet but they do use BT

 

[Aswall]

Think yourselves lucky, I live in a little rural village where we dream of getting 1Mb/s! YouTube and iplayer are out of the question. Some investment in bringing the rest of us up to a reasonable level would be appreciated rather than the drive to push from 20 to 50 to 100Mb/s in the areas already well served

 

[moonloops]

Mine never went below 95mb, I know O2 and BE had issues a few days back. Not heard of any BT woes..

 

[davidjpowell]

Think yourselves lucky, I live in a little rural village where we dream of getting 1Mb/s! YouTube and iplayer are out of the question. Some investment in bringing the rest of us up to a reasonable level would be appreciated rather than the drive to push from 20 to 50 to 100Mb/s in the areas already well served

A friend of mine lives in a Yorkshire village. When the main cable into the village was nicked, BT replaced it not with not worth the effort, but ten times as fast fibre, but ulra valuable copper...

 

[grober]

Evidently Jim the guy in a boiler suit who actually goes out in a van to connect up any broken fibre optic cables had a couple of days off to go and see his mum. Rest assured tho--- several focus groups of around 50 high powered " suits " held emergency meetings to decide what story to pawn off customers with as a damage limitation exercise till Jim got back. It was finally decided to blitz the media with a few more videos of that fit bird gazing at the pretend light beams of data would be a good idea. It would only cost 5 times what a temporary backup man for Jim would cost but that idea appears to have "slipped under the radar" at the meetings.

 

[Frugal]

A friend of mine lives in a Yorkshire village. When the main cable into the village was nicked, BT replaced it not with not worth the effort, but ten times as fast fibre, but ulra valuable copper...

South Yorks does seem to have its share of 'not spots' Notspot / slow-spot coverage map :: Broadband Notspot how much public funding has been sunk so far, I wonder?

 

[brucemillar]

Friday, 6.30pm...my 40meg Infinity broadband is currently running at 0.05meg. Is anyone else's running slow too? The BT help page says the problem is ongoing but can't find anything else on the net about it?

Move to rural Kent the Gateway to Europe. If I get 1Mg on a good day I am lucky. If I want anything over 1Mg then its on with the 3g Dongle. FYI. This is after 11 years of petitions to BT etc.

 

[markjay]

FFTC is very good but also very new. Early adopters should expect some teething issues, but this definitely looks like the dominant low-cost broadband solution for mid-term future. Fibre all the way to your Router is best, but no one has yet found a cheap way of doing it well, not even Virgin Media...

 

[moonloops]

Fibre all the way to your Router is best, but no one has yet found a cheap way of doing it well, not even Virgin Media...

I am on FTTP so they do do it and it isn't megabucks either.

 

[Aswall]

A friend of mine lives in a Yorkshire village. When the main cable into the village was nicked, BT replaced it not with not worth the effort, but ten times as fast fibre, but ulra valuable copper...

Yes that's where my village is, our cable has been nicked 3 times in the last 2 yrs, leaving us all without phones or net for a week each time. On one occasion they only waited long enough for it to be replaced before immediately nicking it again. Each time it has been replaced with copper, so the same will happen again.