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muddyjames:
At the moment I have a 2gb download speed. is gb right?  :-k Anyway. It is fine but I feel the doanload speed is a tad slow as streeming things off the web on sites like you tube, bbc i player etc are either very close to stream max or I have to pause it for ages (like I am doing now) and then play it later once all down loaded. Web site like Veoh seems ok until I use bbc i player then I get put on the user fairness scheme by tiscali and the last 15mins of i player on a hour long program and anything after that for the rest of the day I cant even streem veoh. Takes about twice the time to watch anything. Highly annoying!

Now, I am limited to tiscali or bt internet as the exchange in the next vilage is still an old style one so I cant get trusty Tesco broadband. I used to have Tesco and found it great and want it back again  :'(

If I were to speed up my connection to say for an example 4gb would streeming be better and would it stop tiscali putting on this fair user scheme after 45mins of i player?

symptoms of why I think I go onto friendly user scheme.

I can watch the first 45minutes of bbc i player with no fault. After 45minutes I can only down load in 15 second chunks and it takes 8 seconds to down load those 15seconds. I know i player is high download size too, hence me thinking I am on fair user policy.

Your thoughts. Please do this all in English as I am a complete utter novice atmost things pc! I know how to do very basic things like surf the net and install a program! After that I hate them and dont want to know. And yes, I know a 25yr old should be a whiz on pc's!!! :lol:

V8MoneyPit:
The speed limitation may not be the ISP. If you are in a rural area at the end of a very long line, you may not be able to get any faster speeds. Also, ADSL is severely affected by how many people are using the line at the same time. At peak times, our rural connection grinds to a virtual halt.... slower than our old dial up connection.

Our Virgin package is a 2gb, but we rarely see more than 500k  :roll:

electricbluebadger:
The speed they quote is the maximum you should get, most of the time it is far slower due to the number of people 'sharing' that bandwidth.

As an example I am on 8MB with virgin, lucky to get 5MB when benchmarked at various speed test sites and at peak times of the day can be a lot slower

If BT can provide broadband I am surprised no one else can they simply take over the broadband supply???? try virgins site as they can do a postcode check for service as can sky etc etc

I wouldnt touch Tiscali if they are running this fair usage rubbish still thats why I avoided them when I went from AOHell..... Virgin apparently have a fair usage policy but I have downloaded 60+Gigabytes so far this month and have had no issues thats approx 80+films worth

Steaming such as you tube etc isnt that bandwidth intensive so if you are having trouble due to net speed then they need a rocket up their proverbials....

try and aearch for a few internet / broadband speed test sites, there are loads of free ones and post the results on this thread so we have a better idea of the issues.

Cheers Steve

muddyjames:
Results of 3 speed testing sites.

Speed test.net (It said test from Maidenhead server. Sems closer than London if this has any effect?)

373kbps download
242kpbs upload

the other 2 I have written on the images.

Edge:
"Which?" best buy is waitrose internet (no fair usage policy :clap:).
http://www.waitrose.com/internetaccessfromwaitrose/index.aspx

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