Best fibre broadband - had enough of Virgin!!

[bcam]

We've reached the end of our tether with the comical speeds of Virgin Broadband on Lordship Lane.

Someone PLEASE tell us which providers actually deliver on fibre speed promises!

[danielson00]

I'm with BT (Infinity) near the Cherry Tree, I actually get the 38MB advertised! All providers that use a BT Landline (aka BT Openreach) will provide similar speeds, either 'up to' 38MB or 76MB. However cheaper ones will "throttle" at peak times. BT and Sky don't (from my experience of both!)

Check here: https://www.dslchecker.bt.com/ - you can search by address if you don't have a BT line.

[Siduhe]

+1 for BT Infinity (up near the old Grove Tavern). Not the cheapest, but rock solid and good speeds with no obvious throttling.

[Sue]

Stupid question but I don't know much about this.

Would wifi also improve, or is that a completely separate issue?

I've got places in my house where I can't get a signal, including my music system, so I can't rip CDs because it can't connect to the internet to get the details. Well, I could, if I could be bothered to spend hours inputting the track titles manually .....

My present broadband provider says it's nothing to do with them, even though they sent me the router!!

[JohnL]

What about a wireless range extender/repeater.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=wifi+repeater+wireless&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=56288618450&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=11971394186013639961&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&ref=pd_sl_83x4dfobn2_b

Might work if you place it right.

[Sue]

JohnL Wrote:

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> What about a wireless range extender/repeater.

>

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> http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=wifi+r

> epeater+wireless&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=

> 56288618450&hvpos=1t1&hvexid=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1197

> 1394186013639961&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=b&hvdev=c&r

> ef=pd_sl_83x4dfobn2_b

>

> Might work if you place it right.

Yeh thanks JohnL, I have seen these. I guess if I buy one from Amazon at least I could return it if it didn't work for me.

But Plusnet claimed their router had a long reach, or whatever you call it, and I'm only in quite a small house!! There's rarely a signal in my spare room, either, which is irritating for visitors.

[DaveR]

I'd recommend Powerline kit over range extenders - you plug your router into the mains using one Powerline adapter and them stick another one in a power socket where you don't get a wifi signal, where it operates as a separate wifi hub

http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/networking/powerline/XWNB5201.aspx

[edcam]

In my experience, Virgin still beats the speeds of BT lines. It may be that there is a problem in your location but if I were you I wouldn't jump out of the frying pan into the fire. Whatever you do, don't choose Sky!

[bobbsy]

I've been on Sky broadband (normal, not fibre) for 3 years, can't remember any issues, always circa 10mbps.

[Ludavis]

I have problems with Virgin too, I really need to get out of contract some how. It has been a terrible service!