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On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:10:47 +0100 Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Neil Stone wrote: > > what's wrong with Virgin out of interest ? I've just had a promo from Sky - free broadband with Sky TV. Now the faster speeds involve a monthly charge but 2Mb is, apparently, free and as that is all I can get from the cowboys called BT and because TeleWest/Eurobell/VirginMedia/whoever they are this week consider my locality of Plymouth to be beyond-the-pale, I already have SkyTV and I can't go cable. BT line rental is still payable but I'd still be saving what I currently pay Eclipse each month. So, if Sky claim to offer a seamless transfer to free broadband, is it too good to be true? I mean, it's not as if I'm getting 2Mb now - the most I appear to be able to get is something a bit better than the old ISDN. Sustained apt downloads never exceed 60kB/s and my router currently claims DSL Speed: 448/2400kbps - I should be able to get something over 200kB/s but I'd say my average is closer to 40. Besides, a lot of my work involves uploading, so download speeds aren't particularly helpful. http://www.testmy.net/speedtest/dual_load.php :.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 602 Kbps about 0.6 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Download Speed is:: 73 kB/s Upload Connection is:: 320 Kbps about 0.3 Mbps (tested with 579 kB) Upload Speed is:: 39 kB/s Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main) Test Time:: 2007/07/29 - 6:42pm D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-PZ4UD2FQR U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-2PIMRKV43 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en; rv:1.8.1.5) Gecko/20070712 (Debian-1.8.1.5-1) Epiphany/2.18 [!] -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/
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