Re: [Hampshire] Be There?

Thanks to Keith and everyone who replied.

Keith Buddie wrote:
> So, being about 1 mile as the crow flies from the exchange I went for
> the "up to 20mb" option at £15/month.... to be honest, I never really
> got more than 10mb down although I did get near the advertised 1.6mb up,
> which was impressive!
>
> I've now switched to the "up to 8mb" package for £7.50/month (£12.50 for
> non O2 customers). Have just run tests using [2] and [3] I'm getting
> 6.7mb down and 1mb up, remember that's middle of the evening on Easter
> monday when lots of people are probably enjoying that last night of
> freedom from work by going online!

I've contacted PlusNet today and have been told that my line actually
been enabled for "up to 8Mbps". Nice of them to tell me when they did
it! (Especially as their FAQ says you will get a period of instability
and advise reconnecting the router regularly during the first 10 days of
the connection to ensure you get an appropriate speed! Of course, I
didn't know so couldn't do that.) Apparently BT have rated my line as
stable at 1Mbps. I'm about 2.2 miles from the exchange via road. I don't
know whether there's anything one can do to get BT to look at replacing
old cabling? Or re-kick off the line/speed testing process?

The question now is, if I only get 1Mbps out of 8Mbps, would I get a
higher speed with ADSL2? Or would I just be getting 1Mbps out of 24Mbps?

> Quite often, when I'm using apt-get, it will report getting packages at
> pretty much 8mb.
> Only downside is that they charge for a static IP (can't remember how
> much, but enough to make me think "I'll just use dyndns instead"!)

I was looking at the Pro package which includes 1 static IP, which is
probably all I'd need at first. They do offer up to 16 though, which is
as many as I have at work!

> I must admit I wasn't aware of the security issues with the router but
> mine went straight back in the box as it was rather limited on features
> and only offered WEP encryption. Currently have my Netgear plugged in,
> which connects no problem.

My ADSL router is too old to talk ADSL2, so I'd either have to use their
hardware or buy my own. I'd read about the security problems and would
check what was open to where.

Thanks,

Tony