Just seen your reply... Sorry to hear that. This is very much a postcode lottery, as I know that one of my neighbours who backs onto my house comes off cab 26 which is over a quarter of a mile away from mine!! He will only get a marginal uplift.

In reply to a post by Wigga21:

its not bad speed, fairly some time its go p highter than 15, some time i get around 20. mostly low speed i get mostly 13mb, but still poor singal when use ps3 in the bedroom, although i live a small flat its so strange as living room is lots quicker and strong singal,

may i ask guy if telephone socket damp will this effect the speed or damages?

Are you using the main socket, and have you tried going into the test socket behind the plate?

Kudos to the residents of Hereford for taking such keen interest in FTTC rollout. Why is that though? It's a fairly small city, yet FTTC rollout has generated the largest thread ever on this forum! Reflecting the widespread relief at the arrival of FTTC? What passed before for broadband being very poor?

cheers, a

In my case, I've seen my Broadband speed steadily decline over the last 7 years, from an "impressive" 4Mb about 7 years ago, to a "pedestrian" 2Mb for the past couple of years.

I think I am right in saying that Hereford also had the dubious honour of having one of the slowest average broadband speeds within the city, out of the whole country, which is possibly another reason why Hereford was fast-tracked for Fibre at the end of last year.

no i havent not tried, is risky to damage if i try it? and im not aure which one is main socket as i got two socket

In reply to a post by asbokid:

Kudos to the residents of Hereford for taking such keen interest in FTTC rollout. Why is that though? It's a fairly small city, yet FTTC rollout has generated the largest thread ever on this forum! Reflecting the widespread relief at the arrival of FTTC? What passed before for broadband being very poor?

cheers, a

Broadband speed is pretty naff in most parts of the city unless you live close to the exchange. the problem is we got one exchange and Hereford is pretty well spread out.

So getting some extra speed excites some people

Up where I am, which to be honest is not that far away from the exchange we get 2-4 megabits ,mainly because the cables run back to where the old exchange is, so they are more than double the length they should be


Also normally in Hereford we are far behind other places and I was shocked when i heard that FTTC would be here this year and we was expecting it around 2015.

FTTc will sort out the city or most of it, but there are still many people who will never get Fibre, thankfully there are other ways to get decent broadband. other than FTTC.

BT Openreach installed for me today. Router fixed to the wall as apparently they get quite hot.

A nice chap from Malvern was training another local engineer and it was all sorted in around an hour.

They advised line can support 73 Mb down and 20 up, but currently only getting around 3.8 down and about 8 or so up. I.e upload is twice the download speed.

Not sure what's going on.

If you are unsure of what you are doing, then don't proceed, but the following links may help you to identify what type of socket you have....


http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tools/bt-master-socket...

http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm

I suspect we possibly had one of the fastest OR roll-outs of the size/type too.

In reply to a post by Sigaldry:

BT Openreach installed for me today. Router fixed to the wall as apparently they get quite hot.

i presume you mean modem not router.
i thought they solved the heat problem with the modem, if not I would not like it on my wall to be honest

I know the homehub 3, which is the router can get pretty warm as well, if you are with BT.

A nice chap from Malvern was training another local engineer and it was all sorted in around an hour.

Or not by the seems of it.

They advised line can support 73 Mb down and 20 up, but currently only getting around 3.8 down and about 8 or so up. I.e upload is twice the download speed.

Not sure what's going on.

Something is certainly wrong there. that is slower than what I was getting on ADSL. i know a couple of people, not in Hereford but in other places that have had a fair few problems with BT FTTC service and one person in Hereford who is having awful problems with FTTC.

something tell me sI did make the right choice in broadband after all.