Local internet speeds
- 23 July 2015 10:25284668Quite extraordinary variations 1. 9 at the bottom and 30 at the top, not surprised to see my neck of the woods at the wrong end.
http://www.dover-express.co.uk/REVEALED-slowest-fastest-internet-speeds-Dover/story-27468559-detail/story.html - 23 July 2015 11:062846691.9 for Stonehall is an estimate and a myth based on the BT consumer test which just uses postcodes.
My actual on Stonehall is 0.25 using this line test from BT Wholesale that I was told to use by a BT engineer when I was complaining a few weeks ago.
I have been following and chasing this when I was a parish councillor for Lydden since the farcical Make Kent Quicker campaign that started 4 years ago. Even taking it to the KCC Cabinet member responsible just got waffle, and the final insult was a few months ago when fibre optic cables were taken through Lydden to Aylesham with no facility for providing an improved service to the village.
The current estimate from the KCC website (you can check plans for your own street here) is that we'll get "standard broadband", though there is no such thing, of 2Mb after the improvements - which were due between July and November but have now been put back to early next year.
Well yipppeee
- 23 July 2015 12:42284671I remember the promise from KCC Ray, another thing I don't understand is the vast difference between London Rd Temple Ewell and Lewisham Rd River as they are on top of each other, and why is Aycliffe so much slower than the rest of town.
- Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
23 July 2015 13:14284673You have my sympathy with that awful speed Ray.
I have just checked and our download speed is 41.35 Mb/s so maybe going with Virgin if possible is the answer.
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
------------------------------------------------------------------- - 23 July 2015 14:00284677howard mcsweeney1 wrote:I remember the promise from KCC Ray, another thing I don't understand is the vast difference between London Rd Temple Ewell and Lewisham Rd River as they are on top of each other, and why is Aycliffe so much slower than the rest of town.
Simple - the fibre network that serves Dover covers River and just a few parts of Temple Ewell, but other areas only get the telephone cable service which depends on the distance from the Archers Court exchange. - 24 July 2015 11:31284723There is a new fibre box in our road in Eythorne. But when we were with BT we got speeds as low as 650k. So we switched to vFast and now enjoy speeds in the 17-22MB range.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 24 July 2015 11:56284725Peter, you've got that service as Eythorne Parish Council applied for a grant for the necessary masts as part of the previous KCC grant scheme for broadband in 2011.
At my first meeting as a parish councillor for Lydden in May that year the parish clerk was going through communications received and told the meeting about that scheme - followed by "Oh, it's too late to apply, the deadline was last month." She's not there any longer.