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Nope, Sky Narrowband My iPhone on 4G is much, much faster

Ha Arthur you think you've got problems - my d/l is sub 4Mb/s ALL the time!

I've heard about this 'power outage' issue before. It's just their go-to response when customers complain. All b******s I'm afraid. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Optimism! That's the ticket - I can be online tonight if I can be of any further assistance old chap

Yeah, it is normal for connection speed to fluctuate a bit to start with as the router works out how fast it can send and recieve data. This is one reason why it's essential to keep your router powered on and connected at all times. The exchange will periodically send a signal to the router to check the line. The router will respond to the signal so the exchange equipment knows everything is OK. If the exchange doesn't get a reply because the router is unplugged (for example) it will assume that there is a problem with the line and will set a slower transfer rate in an effort to fix it. It takes several days of continuous operation for the transfer rate to go back up. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Having done some more reading up, BT are offering an 80Mb/s deal so I suspect that's what they're putting you on here. It's quite good that they're talking about a minimum speed too. cable envy Arthur?

I think if you're getting those speeds, you're probablty on Virgin fibre. I don't think you can get those speeds via BT. If that's the case you probably have a cable running from the house underground to the main cable duct in the street. Virgin's big problem is 'contention' i.e. how many connections are going down the main fibre. When there's few people on then you'll have good speeds because you are allocated a bigger share of the available bandwidth but as the load increases (in the evenings for example) your connection will slow down because the available bandwidth doesn't increase and it's being shared between more people. BT connections have the same problem but not so much. Then again you can't get those speeds with BT either so...

www.speedtest.net will give you up and downstream speeds as well as rating your connection against the UK and Global averages. Although if you're asking how I rate my ISP (Sky), their bog standard broadband is pretty crap really. That said they're moving me onto their superfast fibre doodad shortly (after I remonstrated with them at considerable length) so we shall see. I have used BT and Virgin before for standard broadband and BT have been hands down the best for hardware and service. Mick - 300m is quite a way so if you're getting say 20Mb/s at the cab I could easily imagine that being reduced by 25% or more by the time it gets to you. This is all guesswork by the way so don't quote me.

Depends Mick, I thought you were on Virgin fibre? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Neat!

Plusnet are part of BT FWIW. As an ex-BT engineering-type person myself, how 'super' superfast broadband is very much depends on how far you are from the roadside box because that's how much copper is your line and that will slow your connection. Standard BT Infinity is 40Mb/s (megabits not megabytes) at the cab but every metre of copper after that will reduce the speed. Unfortunately, any broadband provider using Openreach's fibre/copper network suffers with the same problem. Virgin are slightly different because they have their own fibre network but this is not available in all areas (Virgin Broadband in non-virgin-fibre areas still uses Openreach's network)

Very nice mate - you could drive to Duxford! Lol Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Hooray! Chris, have you sent the 780 yet? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Sounds like a good call to me Mick. If you want a hand when it comes to looking for the CPU, let me know.

I think the one I had needed 1 8-pin and 1 6-pin Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Part of the problem might be that you're running 1920x1200 rather than the more common 1920x1080. Might be pushing a 670 a bit hard. I have a spare 780 though if you want to try that. It's currently near Maidstone I think Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

Bear in mind too Mick, if you do go for a 970, you may need a new PSU as well as your existing one may not have the correct power connectors. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro

I see your point FT but if the solution is a new rig that could be prohibitively expensive. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro