Well it turns out my exchange IS Brentwood. Which is about 3 miles from my home.
Excellent.
Your line stats when you get home would be useful, to see what sort of connection speeds you should get.
Could you please explain how i get the line stats for you? Sorry but i have never done it before.
See here for help.
How would under 24ms pings (on interleaved) or probably a tiny bit more expensive under 20ms?
Sorry this question doesnt make sense i dont think?
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"suit you". But judging from what O2 and Be said, unless your stats are better than I expect from the O2 and Be estimates then you are looking at 24ms or better, interleaved, in my opinion.
I have put my number into the companies websites you suggested and they both said i should get around 6mb speeds on my line.
Yes we are on a 12 Month contract i believe or it may even be 18 month as companies seem to be pushing you into more now!
If you migrated to O2 Standard (I assume they offered you that, not O2 Access which is as bad as you have now or possibly worse), then going about it the right way your full first year would cost £25 if you have an O2 contract mobile phone, £65 if you have an O2 PAYG (but giving you at least £44 of any network phone calls), or £75 with neither. Having said that, the O2 mobile number that is used to get the discount doesn't need to be yours or even registered at your address. Just someone you are close to who doesn't want to use it to get an O2 broadband discount themselves.
If you migrated to Be Value, which will have a 40GB pm cap from the middle of this year, the first year total cost would be £65.
Something to think about perhaps, even if you have to pay off the BT broadband contract? Your phone stays with BT. There is no comparison in the service - no BT IP profiles or silly noise margin settings, no slowdowns, steady pings.
For instance, taken just now from the Manchester area, O2 Standard with interleaving:-
Pinging jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=123
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=123
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=123
Reply from 84.234.17.86: bytes=32 time=22ms TTL=123
Ping statistics for 84.234.17.86:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 22ms, Maximum = 22ms, Average = 22ms
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