Broadband

[Jaff.]

Is there anyway I can find out what sort of speed a house is getting without being there?

basically I want some decent Internet when I move house (or I at least don't want slower speeds) but obviously I have no access to the houses unless I go to view them.

​any ideas?

 

[jenic]

bt's speed checker will give an estimate based on address.

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/products/broadband/infinity#services-checker

Click can I get infinity and it will list estimated speeds for both ADSL and Fibre

 

[Jaff.]

Brilliant. That will do. Thank you

 

[Jaff.]

Bit of a bump - I'm moving in November (hopefully) and that open reach site says I will get up to 5.5. That's a considerable drop and I want more lol.

the site says the exchange is accepting orders.

anyone know what this means? How can I get fibre optic? Sky told me I can't get it when I rang them to move house but I didn't push it because I didn't know if the exchange was fibre ready anyway

 

[Paprika123]

http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker

 

[Jaff.]

Yeah I've just found out Virgin do fibre there. Happy days

 

[JonnyK]

sod going with virgin. the fair use policy and traffic management is shocking. http://my.virginmedia.com/traffic-management/traffic-management-policy-30Mb-or-higher.html

 

[Jaff.]

looks like they only manage peer to peer and newsgroups in peak times.

most of my peer to peer downloading is done between 10pm and 6 am so i should be fine.

even so id rather be slow on a 30mb speed than average on a 5mb speed

 

[JonnyK]

they also have a set download quota that you cannot exceed within a certain timescale, which defeats the point of "unlimited". the only two truly unlimited companies are sky and bt

 

[MarcB]

Im over the moon with VM for speed and thats via Wi-Fi

 

[Jaff.]

I seriously doubt I'm gonna have any trouble. And like I said 60mb/s is a lot better than 5mb/s

when sky upgrade the area to fibre, then ill consider changing back but in the mean time what would you do?