Broadband

Having spoken to a neighbour recently with regard to broadband speed, It would appear that many of us have issues with the speed we can get from BT.

Over a period of approximately 1 month I tested my line and found that the speed set by BT at the exchange fluctuated from 2Mbits to 0.5Mbits at peak hours making flash sites such as Cbeebies useless. When I confronted BT with regard to this they first told me that they do not throttle the connect. However later they did agree that they were throttling the connect 'to keep a good connection' they said.

Anyway I am now with O2 and get a connect rate of approximately 4.5Mbits all the time.

A couple of other points to note though. When my connection speed moved all the time a BT engineer did analyse the line and found that due to the length of the extensions within the property the bell wire circuit caused interference which slowed down the connection speed. He installed a new section in the incomer which removed the bell wire circuit, this did stop the connection speed slowing over a period of days. So this maybe a good solution for many people on the estate.