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Title: Slow Connection ?
Post by: silversurfer44 on January 23, 2011, 03:45:45 PM

Read here.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110123/ttc-slowest-broadband-area-revealed-e1d36ba.html (http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110123/ttc-slowest-broadband-area-revealed-e1d36ba.html)

Title: Re: Slow Connection ?
Post by: waltergmw on January 23, 2011, 09:00:24 PM

As our readers here know, there are plenty of other lines that are equally as bad - always assuming even that a broadband service is possible in the first place.

A frequent excuse seems to be that the lines are too long but this often ignores the fact that line quality (i.e. usually the line noise) is the real problem.

We have had many such a problems described here:-

http://www.ewhurst-broadband.org.uk/?cat=4

Our latest one on an overhead spur cable is illustrated here with a downstream attenuation of 74.1 dB and speed of 288 kbps,
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,8641.0.html
when compared with another service at the same distance on the underground branch of the same D side cable with an attenuation of 77.3 dB and a speed of 992 kbps.

Kind regards,
Walter




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Title: Re: Slow Connection ?
Post by: roseway on January 25, 2011, 07:13:33 AM

They got it wrong, unsurprisingly...

http://www.v3.co.uk/v3/news/2274387/broadband-speed-internet-kent

Title: Re: Slow Connection ?
Post by: silversurfer44 on January 25, 2011, 08:25:45 AM

Thank you for putting things right Roseway. It seems like there is a lot of these average figures which are misleading.

Title: Re: Slow Connection ?
Post by: kitz on January 28, 2011, 06:55:13 PM

It did actually cross my mind the other day when I read the link SS posted, that how could that be quantified.
Afterall it could be the same house doing the speedtest (didnt know at the time it was only 14)..  and that there may be some other factors included such as internal wiring etc.