I have had quite a few broadband providers over the last 5 years and o2 seem to me by far the best.. I'm on the up to 10Mb/s plan and constantly get speeds from 9-11(!)Mb/s - regularly tested via the speedtest site.
Only when we moved to our current address and took our o2 broadband with us it seemed very slow and inconsistent. That was until I found out that our internal line wiring was just appalling. Once I rewired it properly, o2 speeds became so much faster and consistent.
Your problem sounds to be a BT fault..
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Originally Posted by boot
Hmmm....
We were on O2 Access. What plan are you on? Are you on an out usual area plan (i.e. an unbundled exchange).
O2 are monkeys for throttling access plans, if you download a lot, that makes it worse. If you're assigned a 188 ip address through them when you switch router off an on again, you should notice a considerable speed difference.
We used to switch off and on again until we got a 188 ip address. Eventually cancelled the contract and went with plus.net. They're more expensive if you need the bigger quotas of monthly allowance, but a change to our downloading times and we're reasonably happy.
Moral of the story - if you didn't change something, they probably did.
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