On 15 Jul 2007, at 19:50, Ron Jones wrote:
>> All this correspondence has prompted a bit of research and possible
>> experimentation, though. We are, according to BT, about 2.5 km from
>> the exchange equipment, and marginal for ADSL. Speed at the moment is
>> only about half a megabyte, measured on
>> http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/speedtest/ .
>
> A better test is http://www.speedtest.net/ (and also on dslzoneuk- see
> below)
>
> Marginal for ADSL at 2.5km!! They are pulling the wool over your eyes
> IMHO!
>
> Try http://www.dslzoneuk.net, the distance to the exchange for my
> PostCode
> gives....
> You are around 2.29 kilometres from your exchange (as the crow flies).
> Measuring in Memory Map along the road (since I don't see a line strung
> across the M6!) gives me 2.96km
> and my sync speed is 3778 = 3.0Mb.
> I've a friend on the outskirts of Lancaster, over 4km from the exchange
> getting 2Mb.
>
I've just managed 883 kb/s in Braunston on a T-mobile USB modem (using
speedtest.net), and in better reception areas regularly do better than
that.
––
All the best
Bruce
"Houses are but badly built boats so firmly aground you cannot think of
moving them" Arthur Ransome, 'Racundra's First Cruise'
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