laserblazer Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 I'm with Orange since Freeserve days and I still have the original package which is uncapped. It costs me £20 a month for a 2Mb connection. If I wanted to upgrade I would lose the uncapped service. I was downloading some music last night and I thought it seemed fast, so I did a speed test and it showed 6.5Mb down and 512Kb up. Do you think Orange has made a mistake or have they decided to give us all the higher speed service to keep us happy?
laserblazer Posted July 26, 2008 Author Posted July 26, 2008 Yes, I would definitely lose the uncapped service but it looks like I have been upgraded anyway.
kmount Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 The chances are you've been regraded to an upto 8mbit at no extra cost to yourself. Reasons for this are aplenty: 1) Moved onto an LLU Platform at your exchange allows for 'lower' costs to the ISP. (very likely) 2) ISP cocked up and gave you a faster connection as a result. (least likely) 3) ISP don't offer support for fixed line packages any longer and regraded all lines to upto 8mbit. Either way, check your Exchange at samknows.com and see which LLU providers you have (if any) and let us know, there may be better deals to be had!
laserblazer Posted July 26, 2008 Author Posted July 26, 2008 BT Wholesale ADSL BT Wholesale ADSL Max AOL LLU O2 / Be LLU Bulldog LLU TalkTalk (CPW) LLU Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU Tiscali LLU Orange LLU (Formerly Wanadoo)
kmount Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 Chances are you've been moved onto Orange LLU, put your number into ADSL24 Broadband - ADSL availability checker and see what it comes back with. If you're on LLU, it's a chargeable platform to move from Alternatively, with Be* available at your exchange, for the money you'd be mad not to move onto one of their product offerings here·
maniac Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 You lucky sod, you can have Be Unlimited from your exchange, and I've heard good things generally about their service. I think there are a few members on here using it. They were supposed to be coming to my local exchange in June, but AFAIK they havn't done it yet! Mike.
kmount Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 Check at Samknows Broadband - Comprehensive Broadband Information Mike, it's unlike be/o2 to miss out on an enable date.
maniac Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 Actually I've just done that, and what do ya know, enabled TODAY! Now I'm happy :D Samknows Broadband - Sittingbourne (NDSIT) Exchange Mike
kmount Posted July 26, 2008 Posted July 26, 2008 I just checked mine incase it was a cause of luck but sadly no, still on be on mine
Trapper Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 You lucky sod, you can have Be Unlimited from your exchange, and I've heard good things generally about their service. I think there are a few members on here using it. Their DNS are playing up something awful at the moment. I can download at 1.8MBps, but browsing feels like dial up!
bizzel Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 I'm with Orange on the 8 meg service which is currently giving me 1.4. Our phone line is terrible though, the noise margins are at the bare minimum, BT still haven't found the fault after 4 engineers.
nadeem Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 Their DNS are playing up something awful at the moment. I can download at 1.8MBps, but browsing feels like dial up! Try using OpenDNS (free)
Trapper Posted July 27, 2008 Posted July 27, 2008 Have tried OpenDNS, frankly it didn't make a huge amount of difference
Hightower Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 I use Eclipse - I'm on an 8 meg package but only receive 4 meg as I live in the sticks. The beauty about mine is I pay £30 a month for it, but it's uncontended!
kmount Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 They can't guarantee you that its uncontended as they purely resell BT's 50:1 or 20:1 products.
Hightower Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Well one thing they can guarantee is it's a whole lot quicker than any other broadband I've previously had - no matter what time of day
kmount Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 That's good to know that you've had good speeds with them, but you shouldn't bet that that's anything 'they've' done so to speak. They are however known to be expensive which I think keeps the 'heavy' users away which keeps their end of the network less contended than other providers. £30 for 50GB isn't bad at all. Have you tried the ole' tricks to try and get a faster connection?
Hightower Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 The 50gb is the fair usage..... It's unlimited at off-peak times (as I'm sure most of these deals are) I think what they say is because I'm option 1 I'm further up the ladder. Meaning that if the bandwidth was between me and an option 2, 3 or 4 then I would have priority. I think that's how it works so I take it back about being uncontended. What's these tricks then?
kmount Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Yeah, that would work on their end but not at your local exchange where the first level of contention occurs. The tricks depend wholly on how you've got your router connected, i.e whether its into the master socket, filtered faceplate, is the ring wire connected etc? You need to grab some line stats (Downstream & Upstream SNR and Attenuation along with your sync speed). We'll work on from there.
Hightower Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 Ok - wait till I get home and I'll give you the details
SpuffMonkey Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 20mb/768k here... Virgin Media Unless the STM kicks in between 10am and 9pm, when you get 5mb...grrrrrr:mad:
ChrisP Posted July 28, 2008 Posted July 28, 2008 I'm with Orange since Freeserve days and I still have the original package which is uncapped. ROTFPMSL [best panto voice] OH NO IT ISNT [/best panto voice]
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