When will the north east of england get faster broadband? mine is 2 meg max and it doesn't meet my needs.?

Question

i live in newcastle and i envy the speeds that some areas have of 8meg +. when will the north east be ungraded?

Answer 1

It isn't as geographically broad as to sections of a whole county.It's more of a local exchange issue.I configure Broadband connections for friends etc; and have found that one side of a street can be receiving speeds up to 8 meg and the other end of the street is on a different exchange and getting 2.2 meg. Wanadoo/Orange have been working hard to install their equipment in exchanges and their LLU programme is creeping Southwards and more customers are getting the faster speeds.Contact your service provider's Customer service dept and ask them what their Exchange unbundling plans are ??

Answer 2

But did you know that although they boast 8 megs it isn't actually possible with most of the telephone lines? The max speed is 2 megs. So although my provider has always boasted 8 megs, if I go to the speed now I see it is under 2. Until the phone lines get upgraded, you have the fastest! Keep an eye on the speed and if it seems to be dropping below 2megs then you should complain to your ISP and they can make adjustments to speed it up.

Anyway, what ya moanin about - in Hexham they don't even have Channel Five yet and Freeview is a joke! The Hexham telephone exchange is actually one of the trial areas though and they have been testing new lines there ... not great for some residents (like my mother) but there is hope.

Answer 3

they are right due to the outdated telephone lines all providers that use a BT line for their broadband are limited to 2meg ish (until line upgrades are done.) Even when this is done though you still won't be achieving the speed they say you get as the Phone exchange is a bottleneck and the more people going through it the lower the speed. This is the same for cable broadband too.

Answer 4

I couldnt agree more.

I live in rural Lincs and will never get the choice of having cable. So I am stuck with what BT can offer in terms of Broadband, and they would rather try and wrestle customers back from NTL than provide a good service to their captive customers.

Answer 5

First try this
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/
depending how far you live from the nearest exchange( i get 6mg)you may never get the full 8mg
If you go to BT broad band home site , theres a post code/phone number that will tell you what you can except they promised me 6 very rarely get it

Answer 6

dude u r lucky with 2 Megs atleast ! i have been trying to upgrade my dial up to 128 kbps from last one year yet no success ! i share this dial up with 7 computers !!! I stay not in UK but Ukraine ;))