Net firms quizzed on speed limits

interesting article on bbc news...

what's your internet speed like and do you get what you pay for?

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£24.99 a month - 2mb broadband - Do I get what I pay for... NO! Downloads at 256kb (if I am lucky) Uploads at 37.4kb (once again if I am lucky).

Just checked aols site and I am paying £24.99 for my broadband at 2mb BUT the lowest package I can see is 8mb at £14.99... Think I need to ring up aol india and ask them what they are playing at!

i believe we pay for up to 2mb, that was what we were told we were upgraded to for free because of price changes, however in the account section of their site tiscali says our package is 512kb/s. we pay £20 per month, however that includes local and national calls or something allong those lines. the max download rate i ever get is about 80kb/s (as in downloading a file). apparently we are a long way from the exchange on an old type of line or some rubbish like that.

About £28 with VAT.
Paying for 8mb but always get < 2mb due to my area.
I do have static IPs however and my upload speed is quite satisfactory.

yeah, it's that lovely "up to" phrase that seems to get them out of providing a decent service

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I am on Virgin Media 20MB (cable) service which costs me £29 for first3 months then £35 after. my upload speed is around 700mb and my download speed is between 1.5mb - 2.5mb a sec. I can usually download a full 700mb film in around, 10 mins.

It may sound good enough to you but 20MB sounds better??? wheres that??

Vistar

Don't you wish it were "At least"

you have to admit its good business though, technically they are never letting us down, its our assumption that lets us down. we assume that because its up to a certain speed then we will get something close, technically they can give us whatever speed they want, funny how its never over though!!

what does 20mb mean???


i've not seen anything resembling that anywhere.. it loads the same as anyother mb service straight away(and i wont need 20mb line to load a page, so its not that bit of service) my downloads are 2mb so thats not the 20mb i was offered....


virgin is living up to their name in this industry...

and yet they say they never lose speed as they use optic cables which is clearly porkies as everytime i check my speed its ALWAYS different.

AND....LOL... they say they can handle 50mb on their lines but they are not increasing their 20mb limits for marketing purposes.

Vistar

i know what 20mb means i was saying it hypothetically, like what does it mean to them, because i havent seen that in my service....lol

sorry for not making it a bit clearer...

vistar

I didn't post a stupid reply that made me look silly, what you talking about?

Aol £15 o month up to 8 mb i really get 2.8mb

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I pay 50€ for a 16MB and get up to 12MB down and 60kb up...

LOL. That was quite good.

AOL - £17.99 for 5mb speed.

- shiver - cringe -

Is that what you are recieiving? you pay for and receive 5mb?

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I pay for 8 and get about 5-6... It's very fast and ffs will people please stop slating AOL - I have NEVER had any problems with them.

haha unfortunately a bad reputation is hard to shake however much you change and AOL certainly don't have the best reputation in the business!