my broadband speed is 160 kps how slow is this and will a bt hub connetion hep any answers please?

Answer 1

You did not say what you are using for broadband: DSL, Cable, Wireless satellite, etc. That is good for satellite, fari for DSL, and on the slow side for cable (but some systems charge you more for faster connections).

Adding a hub will not increase the speed, as that is the speed from outside your house to the main Internet servers of your ISP. A hub only controls things within your house. If you use the hub to share the connection between mutliple PCs, it will slow the speed.

If speed is an issue, contact your ISP. They are the ones who control it.

Answer 2

Hub will not increase speed/ Perhaps you ought to contact your ISP if the speed is worrying you but to me it seems acceptable but then I do not know what is acceptable to you.

Mine runs at about 134kps which if I were in business using my computer this would not be acceptable and I would therefore have to consider the options on offer from other service providers.

I think it makes difference if you are on LAN connection and live rural as there are some BT that have not fully upgraded the equipment in these exchanges though they are striving to modernise wherever possible.

This is true as the wee automatic exchange at the bottom of my village is still in the process of upgrading and BT has only in the past 12 months brought broadband into this area.

Answer 3

Is it fast enough for you? If not no hub or router is going to help, you need to get a faster connection. The typical router will handle 100Mps that is a fast connection speed for a local network a good broadband internet connection is about 11Mps.

Answer 4

160 kps is not slow, however not fast its about a DSL connection speed.

A hub may actually slow your connection because it splits the connection multiple ways.

Answer 5

That is slow... .any speed not in MB is slow..
ask your provider to check things for you..
i get on average 1.9mb-2.2 mb on a 'quoted' 8 meg connection....