spursmaddave Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Well it's a tough job testing out BT's new fibre optic exchange... but someone has to do it... For the last 18 months I have been road testing it at up to 140 meg but the engineer has just been round and upgraded the hardware in my comms cupboard and now it is ever so slightly faster Still completely free too for the next 6 months :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wasso Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave-350 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I remember the days when I flashed Virgin modems for free internet access. I used MAC address from users near by and ran 20 Meg config files (Back then that was the most) I then ran 3 or 4 modems through a NIC car and got speeds like this. That was free, for about 3 years. Then Virgin updated to Nagra 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliensurfer Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 I remember the days when I flashed Virgin modems for free internet access. I used MAC address from users near by and ran 20 Meg config files (Back then that was the most) I then ran 3 or 4 modems through a NIC car and got speeds like this. That was free, for about 3 years. Then Virgin updated to Nagra 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisS Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 That was free, for about 3 years. That don't sound legal. :wink: You might even have to speak nicely SMD ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paddy78 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Wow! I thought my 104 was pretty impressive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 Wow! I thought my 104 was pretty impressive! I am sure there are faster out there but I am happy Might be persuaded to join Lovefilm or Netflix just have to check who has the best HD quality service Higher speed should enable me to post more too :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 Just tweaked it a bit..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bockaaarck Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Holy Moly Dave, I thought I was getting a good speed with 80Mb! When the BT chappy was installing ours he did say they'd been testing 'super - duper' fibre for a long time and that it would change a hell of a lot once it all went fully live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will370z Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 No excuses of lag in gaming now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 Holy Moly Dave, I thought I was getting a good speed with 80Mb! When the BT chappy was installing ours he did say they'd been testing 'super - duper' fibre for a long time and that it would change a hell of a lot once it all went fully live. Yeah hopefully won't be too long, we moved into our place from brand new and luckily Gravesend Exchange is state of the art fully fibre optic so we don't have any copper wire, even the phone is fibre optic I am just happy to be testing it out for everyone... So far... HD Porn - Crystal clear and no annoying buffering :wink: Gaming on Xbox / PS3 & PC all super duper smooth Streaming over my network is fantastic, all my music and films are instant.... Anyone want to buy about 1,000 knock off DVD's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursmaddave Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 No excuses of lag in gaming now I'm not really into online gaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisS Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Just tweaked it a bit..... Rural North Wales == One / Fiftieth of that. I don't know this dam North South divide. Oh but then I have got the Evo T 4 mile up the road, so I suppose it's swings and roundabouts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aliensurfer Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I get horrendously low speeds here, and I work from home so it gets a tad annoying... Damn Sky... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetSet Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 On a good day with a tail wind I get 3mb . Pete Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dblock Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Awesome. We was meant to be getting silly fast FTTP but the company disappeared. So much for fibre city. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 3.4 on a good day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 FTTP, very nice! I heard from a few people this is working rather nicely but is pricey to roll out as you need fibre to the door which isnt easy in most places. I was going to test this for PlusNet like I did with FTTC, but they said I'd have to pay the FTTC prices for the trail as the price I currently pay for FTTC is a legacy product (only £11.49/mo and unlimited), so I decided that although a speed increase would be nice, the price I pay for 40Mbps is nice enough for me. Maybe we should colo the club server to your house? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glrnet Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Just tweaked it a bit..... FFS, the only forum member whose broadband matches the HP of his Zed, I move we ban him 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dblock Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Annoyed at bt they have missed the last 2 dates to switch on our fttc and now I have to wait another 3 months. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gudzy Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I've had fttc for quite a while, Halifax were one of the first to get fibre surprisingly. Only get around 40Mb though, but that was a big improvement over the 2Mb I was getting when using copper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris`I Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Only get around 40Mb though, but that was a big improvement over the 2Mb I was getting when using copper. 40Mb is the standard for first gen FTTC. I've had it for a good couple of years now and its been flawless since we got it. Quite surprising for BT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bounty Bar Kid Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 2-3 mb :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humpy Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 1.5mb here lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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