I moved into a newly built estate and kept my Broadband with Sky, as for £10 a month unlimited, seemed a cracking deal.
Anyway, got the letter through the door stating up to 4Mbps and line active from a certain date. Realistically I know the stated speed will only be reached on a very rare occasion and I'd least expect between 2 - 2.5Mbps most of the time which I am happy with. BB has been active for 2 weeks and I have still not achieved above 400kbps! Yes 10 years ago acceptable but not now due to data heavy websites and streaming.
So I have been back and forth with Sky, and now they are sending out a BT Openreach technician to conduct onsite testing of my phone line. Did more googling and have discovered that the BB is rife with problems in my area. BT Have an exchange in the town I live in but it is over subscribed and they won't invest in a new exchange in the other side of town.
I cant think what else the problem will be after swapping out routers, filters, master socket checks etc. I am not sure if it is a BT strategy for this area by keeping normal copper wire BB s**t because they have recently rolled out FTTC in the new areas. In a way it forces you to move to fibre optic (not a bad thing I guess but costly). If I can't get better than what I have just now then I will have to bite the bullet and go back to BT and take up their Inifinty connection.
Anyway, got the letter through the door stating up to 4Mbps and line active from a certain date. Realistically I know the stated speed will only be reached on a very rare occasion and I'd least expect between 2 - 2.5Mbps most of the time which I am happy with. BB has been active for 2 weeks and I have still not achieved above 400kbps! Yes 10 years ago acceptable but not now due to data heavy websites and streaming.
So I have been back and forth with Sky, and now they are sending out a BT Openreach technician to conduct onsite testing of my phone line. Did more googling and have discovered that the BB is rife with problems in my area. BT Have an exchange in the town I live in but it is over subscribed and they won't invest in a new exchange in the other side of town.
I cant think what else the problem will be after swapping out routers, filters, master socket checks etc. I am not sure if it is a BT strategy for this area by keeping normal copper wire BB s**t because they have recently rolled out FTTC in the new areas. In a way it forces you to move to fibre optic (not a bad thing I guess but costly). If I can't get better than what I have just now then I will have to bite the bullet and go back to BT and take up their Inifinty connection.