contention

I am not able to get more than 2mb download speed for my wireless broadband due to the distance from my local exchange. At peak times, with BT total broadband option 3, the speed seems to stay much the same.

If I move to o2 all rounder or Plusnet Extra am I likely to get reduced speed at peak times? I read that o2 is now severely restricting p2p downloads (I use it occasionally for football matches).

First thing, if the speed is low using wireless, it may be the wireless part in your home thats slow. Therefore check by connecting to the home hub using an Ethernet cable (it should have come with one).

Without any firm examples from users its hard to know whether a restriction will be worse on one ISP.

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/4373.html shows All Rounder as having a cap of 100 to 250Kilo bits per second. Plusnet should have something on its website somewhere too.

Do you mean you download files for the football, or you stream them? The O2 streaming cap on All Rounder is 8Mbps. You can see the table if you go to www.o2.co.uk and navigate to Broadband Help >> Setup & Technical >> Traffic Management >> What are the technical details.

Also - here's the Plusnet Extra table mentioned by MrSaffron.

Please can you see if you can post your line stats from the BT Hub? See here for help.

Thanks for your reply. I have now been able to find information from o2 - you have given me the net address I needed - and Plusnet Extra. Before your reply I did not know that such information existed.

I have so far failed to find comparable information from BT but will keep searching.

Thanks again.

My current speed is about 2mb using wireless broadband which is the maximum for my connection according to various sources so I'll just stick with wireless broadband.

As far as I know, there is no comparable info from BT on its products...its down to users saying what they actually get

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

My current speed is about 2mb using wireless broadband which is the maximum for my connection according to various sources so I'll just stick with wireless broadband.

You don't really have wireless broadband! What you have is ADSL BB down your phone line with, presumably, a private wireless network within your home.

It could well be that your local wireless is limiting your speeds. Post your router stats as RobertoS suggested.

The previous poster XRaySpeX seems to be correct - I have ADSL down a phone line with wireless connections in our home. Sam Knows and BT claim the speed on my line is a max of 2mb.

I have just been looking at alternatives to BT which might be cheaper and at least as reliable - my 12 month contract is due to be renewed. PLusnet Extra and o2 seemed to be cheaper and reasonably reliable but I wanted to check on speeds as I had read somewhere that o2 were restricting speeds significantly and this forum has shown me the source of that information. I at times use p2p to watch live football matches so I was interested to see the speeds being offered by o2 and Plusnet Extra.

I was a bit worried this discussion might get technical - I don't know how to get the details from our HomeHub and the net addresses offered don't seem to be helping me to find them.

I have registered as "oldperson" rather than remaining anonymous.

Try the following link

http://192.168.1.254/cgi/b/dsl/dt/?ce=1&be=0&l0=1&l1=0

If using a BT Home Hub that should take you to the page of stats.
Default user: "admin" password:"admin"
Password could also be the 11 digit serial number of your Hub. This S/N should be on a label on the Hub.

Watching live football matches is not P2P! It is streaming and is treated totally differently.

When I input the address suggested by Mr Saffron I get page not found.

The reason for using this general broadband chatter forum is that I don't have technical knowledge of broadband. I use the myp2p website to pick up live football via sopcast. I thought that was using p2p!