On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:35:22 +0100, [email]d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk[/email] (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:
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>Martin <me@address.invalid> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:46:34 +0100, [email]d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk[/email] (David Horne, _the_
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>> >There was a news report earlier this week about UK broadband being
>> >generally slower and more expensive than many other countries. That
>> >said, at least it's a service which generally goes down in price and
>> >gets faster, rather than the other way around!
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>> When Sky's broad band is working it is at least as fats as in NL, but it
>> drops out all the time. On two days last week Friday and Saturday it
>> worked perfectly for more than 14 hours each day since then it has been
>> dropping out every five or ten minutes. To get it running again one has to
>> do a housewife's reset, i.e power the router off and on. Interestingly
>> when the browsing just hung, mail with SMTP worked normally. I think this
>> suggests that Sky's web server overloads.[/color]
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>Something is wrong with that service. My service is fine in terms of
>reliabilityt, but there is congestion at the exchange, and every time
>there is a date set for a fix, it is passed and then another date set.
>This has gone on since early June. I just did a check and only got 267KB
>down/ 47KB up, where as I should be able to get around 700KB down, and
>usually do late in the evening, or earlier in the morning.[/color]
One person was offered a formal control of the ADSL by BT at a charge of GBP140
if BT found nothing wrong. Of course if the fault is at Sky's end the fault
isn't necessarily going to show at a lower level in the layered architecture.
--
Martin