Talktalk fibre broadband is faster than BT!

For everyone's info. I was on BT infinity my average speed was around 12mbs, the highest was 15 but it would regularly drop to 10mbs. I was originally quoted 17-25 mbs by bt. When I began to complain they said the speed I should recieve was actually upto 17mbs. After many calls/emails to customer services to try and get the speed increased without success, I decided to leave bt. I chose talk talk fibre broadband as it was half the price. I had reservations as talk talk quoted a speed of 10mbs. I spoke to them they assured me the speed would be the same as talk talk. On installation I was just sent a talk talk router. My Bt setup was the bt infinity router and a white bt openreach modem. Once I was connected to talk talk I did a wireless speed check, it was 20mbs! Four days since installation and it's consistently 20mbs download and around 2.0 upload with no speed drops.
Whenever I complained to BT they always told me they wiring to my house was correct so the fault must be due to a fault in my house. I never touched the wiring it was installed by an engineer and I carefully described my wiring setup when reporting faults.
BT YOU LET ME DOWN. You had ample opportunity to fix this problem but you could not and your competitor can do a much better job using your own equipment and for half the price!
I wonder if the problem all along was the openreach modem. Maybe it was slowing down the speed. Who knows but the supposed experts gave me an inferior service.

John46 said:-
your speeds are nothing to do with BT it is Openreach they provide an identical network to all isps
Openreach obviously provide the infrastructure but some isps can achieve higher speeds over the same network than others
(or choose to ) by tuning the line or something similar.
The isp must be able to influence the speed to some extent otherwise why are new customers told to wait a week or two
for their connection to stabilise, before they realise their optimum speed ?
Also I understand that some isps impose traffic shaping.

Similar Messages

BT Infinity or TalkTalk Fibre Upgrade?

Hi, I'm currently with TalkTalk but my download speed is under 2Mbps and upload under 0.5Mbps due to attenuation of 60dB as I live over 4km from the exchange. I can now upgrade for £25 + £10/month to fibre upto 40Mbps down/2Mbps up on TalkTalk I think at anytime (to be confirmed if I need to wait until end of contract or not) or I can wait and leave to BT or get BT Infinity on a new line for free at just over £40/month for unlimited upto 40Mbps/10Mbps. Speed check gives me 24.6Mbps at my post code on BT/TT, 2Mbps upload on TT, 7Mbps upload on BT.
My question is as I do use aMule and torrents to transfer large files (Amiga, C64 collections, Fedora linux distribution, freeware etc.) as well as filesonic and rapidshare would moving to BT block me doing this? A member on TT forums suggested BT was a no-no due to the heavy throttling employed and more congestion.
"TT normally has mutch less congestion on its backhaul network when compared to BT as it is only supporting TT customers and not other isps as well bt throttle torrents fairly heavily during peek times all week
TT`s throttling tends to vary from exchange to exchange but is reduced during the off peek times."
At the moment my torrents are downloading at 150kB/s and uploading 12kB/s (max speeds I set) but aMule hasn't been working properly for sometime, mostly at 0kB/s down / 12kB/s up. I could live with the 150kB/s download (say 1200-1800kbps through the modem-router) still during peak times with BT but I've heard it is worse than this, closer to 0kbps then full speed after 12:30am. Of course I can stay up until then and make sure my computer hasn't crashed so can download all night and check it 6am when I get up for work but I'd like at least a bit of speed the rest of the time. Also are other traffic affected such as Youtube, iPlayer, Facebook, filesonic, rapidshare etc. during peak times? The only problem I've got with TT is my downloads freeze and have to restart and videos keep rebuffering and unwatchable in anything higher than 320x240 resolution so no HD but that's the fault of my poor line I think. The freezing problems occur on all my devices so it's not just a single computer, smart phone, games console or player. I have tried several routers all with the same problem and only the Comtrend CT-5372 ADSL2+/VDSL2 router I use now is maintaining a connection 24/7 most of the time.
I have however heard many negatives about TalkTalk and that all ISPs throttle just the same. So do BT throttle all the time or not and is it all weekend or just 3pm or 6pm to 12am Mon-Sun and is it a straight hard on/off 3MB/s down to 0kBs?
Also BT used to have a limit of 300GB transfer on Infinity, am I right this has been lifted or will I get a letter if I constantly download without counting how much I've transferred? I expect I may use at least 300GB watching HD videos and downloading stuff as I don't do much else lol. Would I be better off with the business package just in case?
http://business.bt.com/broadband-and-internet/internet-access/fibre-broadband/
It also states:
"No more slowing down in the afternoon, just when you need to work fastest. Our business prioritised service gives you a dedicated broadband fast lane with a guaranteed speed of 16Mb for business traffic at busiest times."
So does that mean no torrent throttling or is it just the same as the residential BT Infinity at a higher price? Also what is the contention ration for business, is it 1:1 or 25:1 or so compared to 50:1 for residential?
Thanks if anyone can answer my questions and help me decide which provider to go with this year.
Happy new year to all!

jcampy wrote:
it is 25:1 ration but remember with fttc there can be un avoidable congestion from the cab to the exchange on very busy cabs but that rearly happens
also unless you go over your limit throttling is only applied on p2p packets same as TT
the limit of 300gb is still in force AFIK at least according to this post
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/BT-Infinity-Fair-Usage-Policy-Throttling/td-p/93273/page/2
also remember that bt also add uploads to your limit so you can use 300gb by uploading 250gb and downloadin 60gb
Hi.
On Infinty option 2 there is no limit, the 300Gb limit was done away with months ago. it is UNLIMITED with only p2p torrents being throttled during peak hours and all weekend.
the link to the post mentioned is now over a year old.
here is BT's latest usage policy:
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/10495/~/broadband-usage-policy
toekneem
http://www.no2nuisancecalls.net
(EASBF)

Fibre Broadband

Hi I'm trying to get fibre installed down my road. You have done most of East Tilbury but not the main road into my town. There is probably over 200 people who would love a faster broadband speed. Currently I'm getting 1.8 meg which is Way below the UK average. Could you please place another box so we can all get Inot the 21st century with ur fibre broadband. Now seeing as the government are giving you in excess of 1 billion to sort out this problem. And give everyone in this town Fibre. Hope to hear from someone soon. Steve.

This is a customer help customer forum your post does not go to BT
Anyway it is not BT Retail our ISP that has any control over the siting or installation of cabinets - that is controlled by openreach although openreach are a member of the BT Group Bt Retail do not get any preferential treatment or information
I am sure that are numerous customers feel exactly the same way as you - I did before they installed my cabinet 2 years after my exchnage was upgraded for fibre
enter your phone number and post results remember to delete number https://www.btwholesale.com/includes/adsl/main.html
if no mention of FTTC then your cab is not icluded in current rollout. Have you tried the BDUK website?
If you like a post, or want to say thanks for a helpful answer, please click on the Ratings star on the left-hand side of the post.
If someone answers your question correctly please let other members know by clicking on ’Mark as Accepted Solution’.

TalkTalk Fibre & Time Capsule

Hi All
I fully appreciate this has been asked many times but after looks at all the threads I cannot work out what to do!
I have had TalkTalk Fibre installed and using the Huwai router that came with it. However, I would like a stronger signal as in WIFI I am getting a poor reception in many areas, so I can either:
1. Use just the Time Capsule as my router
2. Bridge my Time Capulse to mirror the TalkTalk and increase range (I believe?)
My main thing is which is best, and if its option 2, then how do I do it step by step as I have done a hard re-boot on the Time Capsule but just cannot get it to communicate with the TalkTalk router.
Also, will I still be able to use the hard drive on it at the same time
FInally, I have my TalkTalk router in the dining room, then have an ethernet cable from that to a ethernet box near my TV. This then has the Time Capsule plugged into it with 2 ethernets (1 to the LAN and 1 to the WAN).
Am I totally wrong in my set up or can someone give me a 'dummies' guide to set it up?
Cheers!
Michael

Hi LaPastenague, hopefully you can help
I have set up a TC with a talk talk huawei router as you state above. However, I sometimes receive an error messgae on my IMAC stating that another device is using the IP address and that I should try and access the web again later or talk to the system adminstrator.
My set up is by using ethernet from the modem to the Huawei router and then ethernet to the TC WAN. I am using a different wireless network name and password on the TC than is on the TalkTalk network.
I am having problems with my sonos music system losing access/connection to the TC server and so I am looking to resolve all the TC network issues before I can tackle the sonos issues and hopefullt one might resolve the other....

House on 'New' Estate No Fibre Broadband (Exchange...

We are moving to a brand new house on a newish estate (I believe there have been houses the estate since 2011, or even before) but It doesn't seem as though Fibre broadband is available or that there is any way of finding out when it may be available without having a phone line installed first.
Why should I have a phone line installed at a possible cost and certainly a lengthy contract only the to be told Fibre won't be available?
I would happily get a new BT phone line installed (or let Open Reach install on behalf of BT Retail) and continue with BT line rental, broadband, calls and TV IF I knew if fibre would be available in the next few months. If Fibre isn't going to be available then there are other companies offering standard broadband and TV deals, Sky being the most likely at the moment.
Exchange is SLGTP

Up until recently you could email Openreach and ask when your cabinet was likely to be upgraded however Openreach are no longer giving out that information, instead they are replying:-
Thank you for your contact to us. Please note that we will not be responding to you by email but, would like to point you to the Openreach Superfast Fibre website and the FAQ section that will provide answers to the most commonly asked questions. It will also provide links to those service providers that sell fibre broadband at the moment so you can check if your particular line is enabled.
http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/
So in short, you just need to keep checking to see if your cabinet has been up graded.
If you use this checker it will tell what cabinet you are on and what services it can receive. If you do not have a phone line, which is the most accurate check, use the address checker. It is more accurate than the post code checker which covers a larger area and may include a number of cabinets.
http://www.dslchecker.bt.com/adsl/adslchecker.welcome

Playback speed in Sample Editor window many, many times faster than track (at correct speed) in arrange area. How do I sync Sample Editor playback speed to correct speed/tempo in arrange area? Track is spoken word.

Playback speed in Sample Editor window many, many times faster than track (at correct speed) in arrange area. How do I sync Sample Editor playback speed to correct speed/tempo in arrange area? Track is spoken word. Sample Editor playback sounds like Alvin on a meth binge. Spoken phrase is generated from Textspeech. Textspeech can export files as WAV files or MP3 files. Perhaps a clue?: When exported Textspeech WAV file is dragged and dropped into track in arrange area of new project, it exhibits same supersonic speed. When Textspeech file is exported as MP3 file and dragged and dropped in arrange area track, it plays at correct speed.

Thanks Erik,
If nothing else, this huge list of updates and fixes, shows clearly that the Logic Dev team is working hard on fixing and improving LPX to a major degree.... and from the list of fixes done.. show they do read the bug reports submitted!
As an aside....
I recall how all the 'naysayers' prior to LPX (and in some cases, since...) were proclaiming how Logic was dead, the team was being disbanded, we won't see any further development, the Dev team doesn't listen or care... and so on....... I wonder where those people are now?

Why is Mac Pro 2.66 only 1.3x faster than 2.7 G5 on CPU intensive stuff?

I produce DVDs so my Compressor DVCam -> MPEG2 encoding is the most time consuming task. Take the MacWorld benchmarks, I was dissappointed the QC 2.66 was a third faster than a DC 2.7 G5 running Compressor.
I would have expected almost 2x as fast, basically halving encoding times. The Mac Pro took 107s vs G5 137s only 1.28x as fast OR put another way jobs complete in 78% of the time taken for the G5.
This is key reason for me to have just sold a G5 DC 2.3...but I'm dissappointed with these early indicators. Would it be reasonable to assume Apple have not optimised Compressor for Intel - surely not at this late stage?
G4 Dual Gigabit Mac OS X (10.4.7) ATI 9800 Pro

Terpstar,
I was wondering if you have had a chance to use Motion yet. I have a MBP, and using Zapfino fonts with SciFi Glow crashes my system every time. I would be interested to see if this is the case on other intel based systems. This has led to a failure of my main logic board twice over the last month. See my thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=614641&tstart=25
Also, of the two GB ram I have installed, FCP doesn't seem to utilize more than 100MB of RAM. Although the VM size is several GB for the app. I noticed that in order to utilize both cores on my MBP, Airport had to be turned off.
Also, as Ned Snowing was saying, there is no doubt that there are going to be many software bugs that must be sorted out. Especially since this program is being adapted for intel macs, and not re-written.

I want to add more capacity on hard drive of time capsule. Can i add a normal usb driver? I will see it as an external drive in the time capsule network? It will work as fast than time capsule? Thanks

I want to add more capacity on hard drive of time capsule. Can i add a normal usb driver? I will see it as an external drive in the time capsule network? It will work as fast than time capsule? Thanks

Can i add a normal usb driver?
Yes, but be sure that the drive is formatted correctly for Mac in Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
I will see it as an external drive in the time capsule network?
The drive will appear as a shared network drive, like the Time Capsule.
It will work as fast than time capsule?
No, the drive will operate at about half or 50% of the speed of the Time Capsule.

Mencoder H.264 20 times faster than Compressor 2

I tested mencoder with compressor running with 5 G5s. the H.264 implementation of mencoder was four times faster than the 5 dual core quads clustered with compressor two and queermaster . my single computer alone with just a dual 2 ghz processor encoded a movie 20 times faster than compressor with Queerrmaster on this same machine.
compressor costs more than mencoder(free in DVision). to get compressor you have to get an expensive Pro app.
What's wrong with this picture?

Well, I have heard this lament before with the G5s, and all I can say is that I guess Apple is slowly starting to drop support for the PowerPC generation (it was inevitable). I assume you've upgraded to 3.0.1?
As for Motion 3 (and someone correct me here if I am wrong), I believe it's slower because of the full 3D integration. Whether or not you have a lot of 3D aspects, I think it still calculates for it, causing your response and render time to decrease.

New Mac Pro 8-core / D700 not much faster than an iMac... in PPro CC.

So.... my very preliminary testing with our new Mac Pro using the plugin I use most (filmconvert -FC) anyway, shows that Premiere CC needs more optimization for the dual GPUs. In fact, I'd say the CPU utilization is not up to snuff either.
I know FC only uses one GPU presently from the developer. That will change. In the meantime, using a couple of typical projects with that plugin as an example, I'm only seeing 25-45% speed up in renders over our maxed out iMac (late 2012, 27") exporting the same project. That's significant of course but not the 100%+ one would think we would be seeing at the least given the MacPro config of 8 cores and dual D700s. Premiere Pro CC seems in fact to never maximize CPU (never mind GPUs). I have yet, in my very limited testing, see it "pin the meters" like I did on the iMac.
Of course that's just testing now two short (under 5 min) projects, and it depends on what one is doing. Some stuff is much, much faster like Red Giant's Denoiser II or Warp Stabilizer VFX. The improvement there can be 3-4x faster anecdotally. I used to avoid them for speed reasons unless absolutely needed a lot of the time but now they are fast enough to rely on quickly. Other stuff unrelated top PPro CC like DxO PRIME noise removal on RAW stills is much faster too, as is Photoshop CC. Some effects like blur, sharpening, resize there are nearly instant now even on giga pixel files in Photoshop CC.
And of course FCPX is much faster on it but I hate the whole editing paradigm. The timeline is just horrid on it; simple things like replacing a word in someone's dialogue is a multi click, multistep process that is nearly instant in Premiere and most every other NLE. Just to try to see your whole timeline is a chore, to see what your edits and sound are in detail are problematic, trying to keep things in sync is a chore, and you can't even zoom your timeline window to full screen! If anybody has edited for any amount of time, I do not understand how they use FCP X. If they start with that program, for example if they are young, then that is a different beast.
I'm sure Adobe will improve over time. They have to to stay competitive. In the meantime I'll take my 45%... but I wish I saw much more improvement given the cost and hardware differential. Unfortiunately, for now, the mainstream reviews I have seen regarding PPro performance on this machine were right.

That statement about 4k/5k in Premiere CC with the nMP is false, insofar as performance goes.
I just tested 5K Red raw files just dragged into Premiere Pro CC (latest version). I expected this to be slow, given my HD experience. However, on my 8 core/D700, I can play 1/2 just fine, full speed. And I even can also do that with a very streneous plugin/filter attached - FilmConvert (in OpenCL mode), also at 1/2 which is quite impressive. I can even add a bunch of other Premiere filters and SG looks and it still stays at full speed at 1/2.
Ironically, this is quite faster than FCPX which can't seem to play back 5K at all with that filter attached (it doesn't stutter, but it's not smooth... low resolution at "best performace" and reduced frame rate). Even if I remove all filters FCPX plays back Red 4k (again not transcoded) about the same as CC at 1/2, but with a seemingly lower resolution to keep it smooth. It's a head scratcher. It's like Adobe's Red handling is much better coded than Apple's in this case.
Or... it has to be attrituable to that particular plugin (other FCPX motion-based plugins don't suffer the same fate and are fast). But either way, filter or no, Premiere Pro CC is definitely and sharper looking at 1/2 when cutting Red 4k/5k with no transcode, playback in real time, than FCPX which needs to bump it down to what looks like a 1/4 or less rez to keep it smooth. So I have no idea what is going on.
This experience is the opposite with HD, where FCPX is significantly faster (using the same filters/plugin, using C300 Canon XF for HD and 4 and 5K RedRaw alternatively). Premiere seems slower in HD than FCPX by a good amount in HD and signficantly faster with Redraw 4k. Go figure.

Is FIREFOX 3.6.13 is faster than 3.6.8?

Is FIREFOX 3.6.13 is faster than 3.6.8?

I have no real idea, but I suspect
* the changes will be more to do with security fixes etc (you could study the release notes) if anything 3.6.13 could conceivably be marginally slower than 3.6.8
* it may be more appropriate to compare much earlier versions or the new beta firefox4; but when doing so remember also the changing capabilities, and requirements of modern browsers.

How can I get rid of this Lollipop update? My phone drains faster than it can take a charge!

I've just spent 4 hours on the line w/ Verizon support agents who were all very nice, but nobody could solve my problem. Without anything else happening on my phone, I hit an icon to launch an app, and it takes like 2 minutes for anything to happen. The battery drains faster than it can get charged in SAFE MODE!
Is there a way to go back to the old OS without rooting?

Thanks. I have been using the built-in battery monitor as well as the application manager. It helps seeing the processes that are chewing away at your phone's RAM and battery, but at this point, it's not even helpful anymore.
I don't think 'Samsung.Settings' is something I can disable on my phone and that is what's hogging up 80% of my phone's resources. (Fresh boot and all)
What really irks me is that I've never signed up to be a BETA tester for Samsung which is basically what we all are doing... Factory reset, remove all apps, add each app back individually, find what app(s) are causing the problems, etc.
No - this should have been vetted out long before they decided to push out an OS update that has no backward motion of loading the previous OS...
<Rant off>

Is the iPad 3 faster than the iPad 2?

Hi,
Is the iPad 3 faster than the iPad 2? Also, how much better resolution is the iPad 3 from the iPad 2? I was just wondering because I heard that the new iPad isn't worth it's price.

The New iPad is not remarkably faster, but does have a faster chip, which is required to handle the amazing Retina display. The new display on New iPad is without question significatly better than iPad 2 and offers nearly 4 times the resolution of iPad 2. Whether it's important to you, only you can know. To see the difference, go to an Apple store where they still sell iPad 2 and New iPad. For me, the difference was night and day, which is why I sold my iPad 2 and upgraded to New iPad.

With new Brightbox2 router and fibre broadband, PC not shutting down on request

Yesterday connected to fibre broadband with new Brightbox2 router. Since then have been unable to Shut Down PC, although can select Sleep OK. Also cannot access System Manager via Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Hi ,
Your change of router should not have changed any settings within your PC's operating system so this problem is most likely not related.
Have you tried holding the power button to force a reboot?
Thanks
James

Can the WD Raptor make my 2.0 Dual faster than my new 2.3 Dualcore?

A few weeks ago I had asked what would make my machine at work - 2.3 Dualcore w/2GB of RAM - slower than my home machine; 2.0 DP w/2.5GB of RAM.
The new Dualcore was unreasonably slow and I followed the few suggestions to wipe the drive, which brought it up to snuff... but I still find it slower than my 2.0 at home. At simple tasks (contextual menu pop-ups, software loading, etc...) as well as more complex Photoshop and 3D tasks.
It's not the very last generation 2.0, but the one prior, e.g. 8GB of RAM capable, PCI-Express, and liquid cooling, etc...
I doubt the .5 of RAM can make that much difference, is the WD Raptor the difference and am I just spoiled by it?
Thanks for any suggestions.
-Vincent

So you have a Raptor as boot in your home based Dual Processor and it seems faster than the faster Dual Core you have at work.
That's understandable, especially since the Dual Core most likely has a 7,200 RPM 250 GB slow drive (and more filled being at work, using more fonts?), plus the Dual Core shares a fronside bus, unlike the Dual Processor which has one for each. Photoshop pre-CS2 swaps memory to disk, so a faster boot drive will help. (Tiger overrides CS2's RAM limit, so more RAM will give better performance)
At home you have the Raptor as boot and most of your user files on the second drive I'm assuming, allowing you to access two drives at once using two busses.
Of course CPU intensive tasks the Dual Core 2.3 should beat the Dual 2, but since Mac OS X is heavy boot drive speed dependant (caches, swaps etc) the "User Interface feel" should be more responsive on your Dual 2, giving you the impression it's faster.
Big fat filled slow boot drives really cripple Mac OS X performance (NAND RAM coming?)
I've written a better explaination here
click for text doc

Talktalk fibre broadband is faster than BT!

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for