[SWLUG] Broadband

[Jonathan Wright]

Glenn Booth wrote:
> Home 500 is what I have - our line is too shite for anything higher. 
> Hence my comment that you can't buy it any more. Shame - it's a good 
> package, even if it is expensive.

Our's isn't much better. Apart from rented accommodation we were in 
during the time we were building the house I'm now in, the noise on the 
lines were we've lived has never dropped below 55dB. At the moment it's 
at 57dB, although I've seen it go to about 64dB.

Having chatted to a few people, it's surprising that we're getting 1meg 
at all. The last time BT changed it (without notifying it), they upped 
it to 2meg and we lost the Internet for 3 days.

> Agreed. 100 gigs in a month is some fairly serious downloading for a 
> home user.

Yep - and that's downloading only. Uploads don't count towards that (if 
you include uploads, I'm running about 80Gb a month), but I rate limit 
any torrents to run mostly at night (as I need to use the net during the 
day for work and for VoIP).

Never had a complaint off them over it.

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