Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-13 Thread Gordon Allott
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 16:51 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote: Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn namely that in the area

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-12 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 16:51:07 +0100 Gordon Allott gord.all...@canonical.com wrote: Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-12 Thread Paul Morgan-Roach
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:43 AM, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.comwrote: I do have my doubts about the speeds shown on this site. It shows my street at less than 1Mb, despite the fact had an upgrade three months ago and now get 3-3.5 Mb. My friends village shows speeds only available with

[ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Gordon Allott
Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn namely that in the area I'm moving to there is a paltry less than 1mbit and often

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Beard
On 11/08/10 16:51, Gordon Allott wrote: Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn namely that in the area I'm moving to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn namely that in the area I'm moving to there is a paltry less than 1mbit and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 11/08/10 17:11, Rob Beard wrote: snip / Looks like it's down to line length. I've done a check with the postcode on SamKnows.com and it appears the distance from the exchange is nearly 2KM, but chances are the line length could be much longer (or maybe it's something like an aluminium

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 11 August 2010 17:11, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 11/08/10 16:51, Gordon Allott wrote: Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Tansom
** Gordon Allott gord.all...@canonical.com [2010-08-11 16:38]: So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn namely that in the area I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Rob Beard
On 11/08/10 17:19, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: Remember that line speed estimates are hugely conservative, and also depend on sync speeds of those in the area. If cabling is of a low standard then sync will be very low. That's very true, I just went to the original site which Gordon posted