From: "Ron Jones" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, June 09, 2009 10:47 PM Subject: Re: [canals-list] OT anyone with Orange broadband at home?
> > No I'm not with Orange at home - if you are interested in a good home > connection then do browse > http://www.dslzoneuk.net/isp_ratings.php > Only BT + Virgin + Karoo are worse than Orange. > > No.1 - Fast is (IIRC) a bit pricy. > Out of the next nine (all fairly close ratings), five are all EntaNet > resellers (EntaNet do not sell direct) - and will be same price, I'm with > one of those (ADSL24), and very happy at present. > > If you have a modem/router that can be interrogated to find out the > attenuation - then you can estimate your max speed. > This graph works well > http://www.beforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6490 > Note - Where they say ADSL1 - it's really ADSL2, the graph just compares 2 > and 2+ > FWIW I'm now on 48db and 6464 kbps and ADSL2 - so a bit better than > normal, but I force my connection to be better than BT standard :-)) > Thanks Ron, an interesting web site although the BT price quoted is far less than we are paying :-) I phoned BT and you won't be surprised to hear that they have greatly reduced their price to us and they are sending us a new box (?) free of charge. Ann
