Virgin is probably the fastest unless you go for BT Infinity, both are faster due to the fibre optic to the closest possible point of course. The snag with all of this is that often the net itself gets clogged up and one cannot actually do much about that.
After you do the test it should offer you the option to see how you compare with your local street or village average shown on a map. ISTR called Streetstats or something like that.
It can be very informative. My old speed was the highest in the village to begin with and after the bell wire tweak I am 50% better off now. I am on the end of a long piece of very old wet string in rural Yorks so
3Mbps is very good. No prospect of new real copper circuits up here. (and fibre to cabinet would get the response "what cabinet")
Rather depends what package you're on. For instance, I'm on BT Infinity
2 and get a rock-solid connection, the last speedtest of which showed
75.97Mbps down and 15.69Mbps up. If I was to get your figures on my package then something would be sadly wrong, but for your package those figures may be good.
That indeed! The story goes like this: I am in one of the most rural parts of Lincs. No shops, no scheduled bus service, around 250 dwellings. When I moved in (2004), the builder/seller said, "Broadband? No problem, John!" He then went on to spin me a line about how BT "...had promised to install BB Real Soon Now..." All a pack of lies. There was no BB in the village.
For a couple of years I was logging on to that web site where all the lost souls in search of BB go, to see when/if any BB was planned anytime soon. There was potentially something pencilled in for a couple of years later.
And then, one day dawned and we were surprised to see the area inundated with BT/Openreach vans laying cables like the dickens. Our lonely, isolated, ancient, unmanned brick exchange building about the size of a large garage took on a whole new meaning as it is within walking distance.
Suddenly BB was available and it appears (on the figure I have provided) to be pretty snappy.
To this day, no one around here knows what prompted BT to change tack. What I reckon is, someone either rich and/or famous moved into the village and demanded BB and BT said, "Tomorrow soon enough for ya?"
The line is ultra reliable, too. I've no idea whether fibre was used in any part of it.
yep. I saw an openreach fvan laying cables - 'whats up?' 'run out. Bloke up the hill wants more circuits' well l we have a greek billionaire and an American hedge fund manager that way.
So when I had issues with my line, the engineer said 'there's lots of spare pairs of new cable I can use!
In our village it was a group getting very serious about installing a wireless network for the village. Maybe coincidence, but, all of a sudden, BT decided we could have BB after all. It took while longer for LLU to arrive.
Do remember that Infinity is just BT's name for their FTTC service - there are many other ISPs that can use the same infrastructure - and many IMO are much much better than BT retail.
Of-course BT will have you think otherwise, but there you go.
Also remember it's not just top-speed that counts. Think of network congestion, throttling, customer service, etc.
The niche ISPs like Zen, etc. typically don't indulge in this sort of stuff, of when they do, it's very well pulicised with defined limits rather than some wooly unpublished AUP..
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