Get super-fast broadband for £3 a month

I know I get a false reading at over 100 MB/s I just tried the speed test. That is linked from the article it still gave me 7Mb/s which is about right. My local exchange is rated at 10 Mb/s. Incidentally 10p a day works out to £3.10 a month. I was just connected to a server in China and have to admit the video kept stopping. But normally I have no problems. I stream music and video from across the Atlantic and from Poland. TalkTalk has a bad reputation and their server is a shambles but it works most of the time. According to the server when I log in I have 1 email account and no web space! lol I have had a website on for years and I access 4 email accounts using POP3. 

Mike10613 said Try optimising your TCP if you aren't getting the speed you need on ADSL. You can get a free program. I went from 2 Mb/s to around 7 Mb/s. My best speed recently was over 100 Mb/s which I am told is impossible! lol from: http://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php Mike, What you have linked to there is basically something that applies compression to your connection; it is essentially useless for boosting the speeds of real downloads as they are usually already compressed in some way or another. The reason it makes your speedtest seem to be so fast is because the speedtest works by sending a few MB of the same data down the line (say, 5MB worth of 0xFF bytes) - the compression results in you getting the instruction to simply "create" 5MB worth of 0xFF since they're all the same, and this causes your false reading. if you were to download a real file, clearly it won't be comprised of all 0xFF, and so, your compression wouldn't be able to give such a stunning result.

[b][url=http://www.lovemoney.com/profile/profilehandler.aspx?uid=22268]hfc53[/url],[/b] [i]"I'm with Utility Warehouse (for my sins!) [/i] [i]They promised the LLU 24mb.[/i] [i]I get 0.4meg on a good day!"[/i] [i]I'm sorry that you were promised 24mb. I don't promise customers 24mb- there are some exchanges which are set up for faster speeds, but most areas are not set up for that, even when LLU enabled. However, I have a faster connection than neighbours, and there was a significant increase in speed the day that I was unbundled, despite being on an 'up to 8mb' service before.[/i] [i]With a speed of only 0.4mb, I would have to say that the chances are that you would get a very slow connection from any[/i] provider. One analogy that I have heard is that broadband is a bit like a leaky pipe with regular holes. the longer pipe that water has to go through, the more holes there are to lose water, so the lower the pressure comes out of the end. If a pipe has a greater number of holes per meter, the pressure drops even more. Similarly, the further you are from the exchange and the worse the line between you and the exchange, the lower the broadband speed. "[i] Irrelevant of what anyone selling something says always FULLY check reviews and feedback about a company."[/i] OK, try reading leading independent consumer magazines that have no ways to make money from companies that they review- not many out there, but there is one household name. You mentioned getting lots of free calls, with the comment about the calls to UW. First of all, I would contact the distributor who signed you up in the first place, and get them to talk to head office on your behalf. I have always been happy to do this for my own customers, partly so that I know that any issues have been resolved (both issues for me have been on starting up energy, as meter readings have been problematical when the previous suppliers had not updated records when changing meters.) I'm new to the site, so I don't know if there is any way for you to contact me direct if I want me to try to help- obviously, there is no benefit to myself, as I cannot benefit from you as a customer if you are already a customer with UW. Secondly, an increasing number of my customers are getting a lot of free calls, often in excess of 15 hours a month. I get particularly good feedback from customers who come from countries not covered by free calls from any provider (usually the Philippines) who can get free calls from there to any UK landline with their package for a fixed fee. By the way, I'll be trying to report this post, so that moderators can decide whether it needs to be removed as potentially advertising my business.