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I live in a rural location, the exchange is about 2 miles away. I get consistent 1.8Mbs download speeds at my desk using either broadband over mains or wireless. I have both in different parts of the house. So I called BT to find out what they think I should get, they said 5 Mbs after doing a test to my number. What can I do to verify their claim? Where does all this speed go? P.S. I checked the router output using an ether net cable, still 1.8!
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Hi, when you say 1.8Mbs download is this actual download speed or the sync rate on your modem?
For example, my Be* connection syncs @ 17Mb/s and i get rough download speeds of about 1.4MB/s.
Also don't forget that speeds can be affected by several different things such as time of day, any interference from powerlines etc.
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At 2 miles away 1.8Mbps is a good ball park figure.
I am at about the same distance and get 2.5Mbps, but only after TalkTalk put their own LLU kit into my exchange.
Before that when it was all BTs kit, 512mb was it.The only speed checker I truely trust is Think Broadband's http://tinyurl.com/y93m3z
When I ran a wireless ISP it was the only one that consistently agreed with our own internal testing.
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Dave, Superseed
Thanks for your replies. My resident company broad band expert told me to put the router on the socket nearest the BT junction box in the house and retest - I got 1.9/0.25 MB/s download/upload. This is a consistent figure day or night. Makes you wonder where BT gets its information from....
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I have just got broadband (at last  ), and it was about 2Mbps when I first used it, but now it is 0.7Mbps, so I am reading up on how it works! My router is a hand-me-down one, (the wireless doesn't work right at the moment - limited), but the wired bit is working OK.I found this page on my ISP's web-site http://adsl24.co.uk/faq/index.php?action=show&cat=5 have a look at the 3 sub-pages, for your information. Speedee
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