[Klug-general] getting broadband

[Ian Pascoe]

The other thing to be wary of is the contract you get tied into - generally
the lower the monthly value the longer the term.  There's plenty of articles
about BB Contracts including those tied into mobile contracts.

I don't know if anyone here has as yet tried it, but BT's offering for BB
provided over it's landlines an ADSL Conditioner that reputedly can either
provide a more stable line speed, or an increased line speed.  So much so,
as the hype goes, places that were outside of normal BB provision may be
able to get it - albeit at a low rate.  Refer to the previous post about "up
to" a particular speed.

I've had BT Total BB for the past 4 years, including two house moves, and
the only problem I had was with a faulty Home Hub which was replaced without
question.  I'm over 2 miles from the local exchange and maintain a
connection around 6 Mb/s.

Although away from your question, BT is now rolling out high speed BB via
fibre to the home, which will give up to 40 Mb/s.  I am also aware of Ultra
high speed ADSL over fibre, which will be offering speeds in excess of 1 Gb,
which is under development.

Ian

-----Original Message-----
From: kent-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:kent-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of AllenJB
Sent: 21 November 2009 14:36
To: Kent Linux User Group - General Topics
Subject: Re: [Klug-general] getting broadband


I can highly recommend Be. Used them in Southampton and Canterbury the
past 2 (academic) years. Full speed, all the time. Very little downtime.
Excellent service.

I would also recommend not using Virgin cable where possible. And never
touch their ADSL service - it's atrocious.

For Virgin, I have a couple of tips:

1) Make sure you're getting you're net through a separate modem, not the
set top box. If you're still using the set top box, give Virgin a call.
The STB's can only do 2M, which I only found out after I called them due
to a lack of response to my request to upgrade our connection to 10M
(for free \o/, but about time -.- ).

2) Do read their Traffic Management policy: Google "virgin throttling"
or direct:
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html

If you do a lot of downloading, schedule it overnight where possible, or
at least when you're not around.

Also, do note that Virgin use "megabit" rather than "megabyte" as a
measurement of speed. This isn't unusual, but may catch you out. This
does mean that a 10mbit/s connection will only give you ~1mbyte/s download.

AllenJB


nic dan wrote:
> Hi James
>
> I'm on Virgin, but speed is nothing like as advertised
>
> favourite phrase "up to" 10meg is really about 2
>
> I'm considering going over to BE but this will mean signing up for a BT
> landline again
>
> A friend has it and gets really good speed in Hertfordshire, but I don't
> know if Kent is different
>
> https://www.bethere.co.uk/web/beportal/homepage
>
> No problem with linux with any broadband that I know of, and I've used
> 'Three' 3G also
>
> Did you find it slow, also, unless you got a really strong signal?
>
> Aitch
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>
>> To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
>> From: james at jwm-art.net
>> Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 12:30:19 +0000
>> Subject: [Klug-general] getting broadband
>>
>>
>> Morning,
>>
>> I'm a total broadband newb and know next to nothing about broadband and
>> linux because i've lived (for a long long time) in an area where bb was
>> not available and have been using a wireless dongle to get gprs/umts/3g.
>>
>> My main concern is ordering a package and then discovering it uses some
>> proprietary wotsit which means I can't connect within linux (the only
>> option believe me). I don't know if this is likely or not (it was the
>> case with the dialup provider my parents use).
>>
>> Any recommendations for packages to avoid and packages to go for?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James.
>>
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