Read more.Do you live in one of the UK's broadband blackspots?
Read more.Do you live in one of the UK's broadband blackspots?
It sucks that all of those average speeds are higher than what I get (~1.0mbits), and I'm on the maximum my line can handle.![]()
I live in Lincoln and I get 1.22Mb on speedtest.net though I have seen it go up to 1.70Mb on occasion! Pretty shocking though Lincs on the whole being so slow.
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Where I live, in North Cambridgeshire, I used to get 15Mbps then the external lines became noisier and noisier and now I get 5.5Mbps on a good day. Had to lower my package from a 20Mbps one to an 8Mbps. Neither O2 or BT will do anything about it. It's so frustrating. I thought we were susposed to be getting more advanced not less!!![]()
"that's a lot of people and businesses reliant on sub-standard broadband speed," he said.
Any business reliant on broadband is asking for trouble. I know the price of dedicated business lines are expensive, but how long could your business survive is the adsl line went down? In some cases that I know of it has taken weeks to get the adsl back up and running when there has been severe problems in an exchange.
I live 10 miles from holsworthy (one of the blackspots) and get an average of 1400 KB/s download (11-12 MB/s connection). Just goes to show what a difference a few miles and a different exchange can make!
I never used to get speeds as fast as that (used to get about 850 kb/s), but within the last few months the speeds have increased (I have not upgraded my broadband package - it's been the same for about 5 years now). I also get an upload speed of about 100 kb/s which is double the 47kb/s I used to get not so long ago.
Im assuming they must of upgraded the network here recently ?, im with TalkTalk by the way.
Good old Virgin Media i get 19mb of my 20 mb... damn that loss of 1 lol.
At my mom n dads they pay for Be 16mb n only get 5 however which sucks but their lines are aluminium in the area and are really terrible.
Allington Lincolnshire, 0.93M and that's on a good day. Oh and I've got one of the faster connections in the village!
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