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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
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Location: London
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Friend of mine is asking about internet speed etc. See pic below. Comments anyone? C  _________________Still the official cheeky one 
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:54 am |
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:38 am
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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He's lucky to get 3mb! Can't remember the address, but google samknows and that site tells you ehat's available in your area and when, if ever, you'll get bt infinity.
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:08 am |
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oceanicitl
Official forum cat lady
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 8:04 am
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Location: London
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Thanks Tom
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JohnSheridan
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:10 pm
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Or just go to Zen's website http://www.zen.co.uk and pop the phone number in and it should tell you what you can get. Moved to their fibre bb option about 1-month ago - went from 3mb/s to around 75mb/s so now very fast as fibre bb is only range dependant from BT's green cabinet NOT their phone exchange. _________________
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 11:53 am |
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ProfessorF
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:56 pm
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Oooh I get: Estimated Maximum Download Speed*: 7Mbps Line enabled for "up to 16Mbps": Yes
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 12:25 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm
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Location: Manchester
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I get: postcode not recognised, phone number not recognised.
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 2:10 pm |
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okenobi
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Location: Sestriere, Piemonte, Italia
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Zen are amazing.
But anyone moaning about 3mb wants to try living somewhere out of town down here.
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:19 pm |
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leeds_manc
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:19 pm
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Location: Manchester
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3Mb is more than enough to stream video, maybe it's his router or wi fi that isn't up to speed?
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 3:23 pm |
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davrosG5
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I'm not with Sky so I don't know but can't you get a fibre product through them? Sounds like not but perhaps worth looking into. Seeing as they (Zen) are based in Rochdale you would have thought they'd know were Manchester was 
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:11 pm |
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JohnSheridan
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None BT phone line perhaps?
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 4:26 pm |
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 10:21 am
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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The provider might not make a difference if the problem is noise on the line.
If the current provider is ADSL and you can find one that's ADSL 2, then that will speed things up. They just upgraded my parents exchange and they went from 2 to 6 MB.
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:19 pm |
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timark_uk
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Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:11 pm
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Location: Belfast
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Could also be the filter. Mark
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:20 pm |
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tombolt
Spends far too much time on here
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Location: Dorchester, Dorset
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What speed is the router connected at? I had sky connected at 6 meg in my last house, but in the evenings, it ran at a crawl. The sky network is overloaded IMO.
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 5:44 pm |
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brataccas
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:14 pm
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Location: Scotland
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the "censored" "Richard buddha lowther" name is poorly censored btw  _________________
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| Wed Aug 08, 2012 6:00 pm |
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cloaked_wolf
What's a life?
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:46 pm
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Obv still too clever for you though! _________________ He fights for the users.
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