Pipehitterz
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Yeah I know. it was so surprising that someone actually sorted it all out in one simple call.
We were amazed too
Yeah I know. it was so surprising that someone actually sorted it all out in one simple call.Totally believable until the last line I reckon you made that bit up .. nobody At talk talk has a brain
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Just signed up to sky fibre Max, well see how that goes. Been longing for fast fibre broadband for ages, as my current service is terrible. Cannot have 2 people using Wi-Fi at the same time, it would slow things right down. However found out that because I have a lot of devices connected to it, ie, TV, sky box, phones, laptop, iPad and external hard-drive it was bringing the bandwich down.
On this matter, does any one use a Ethernet switch at home? Or can recommend one which will balance bandwich?
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Just signed up to sky fibre Max, well see how that goes. Been longing for fast fibre broadband for ages, as my current service is terrible. Cannot have 2 people using Wi-Fi at the same time, it would slow things right down. However found out that because I have a lot of devices connected to it, ie, TV, sky box, phones, laptop, iPad and external hard-drive it was bringing the bandwich down.
On this matter, does any one use a Ethernet switch at home? Or can recommend one which will balance bandwich?
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To be honest actually thinking about it. You'll be right, not everything will be on draining bandwich at the same time. I just want something which will make the devices they are connected to work as best as possible. I am getting the new sky q internet hub which for some strange reason only has 2 Ethernet ports, so I'm going to need to sort one out soon. Can anyone recommend one?I've got a four port switch under the telly. The tv, bluray, pvr & ps4 all have wired connections to it. Then there's an ethernet cable running from the switch to the router that I got from plusnet. Plus a couple of other things plugged into the back of the router - which has four ports of its own.
I'm not doing anything to manage the bandwidth though. I've had the switch for years - from when my wifi was rubbish & didnt reach all over the house. I've got about the same number & kind of devices as you - some wired, some wifi. Probably if I was spanking them all at the same time it would slow things down, but in reality it's not a problem. I'd say you'll be ok once you get fibre, as long as your wifi router itself is man enough. Power line ethernet might also be worth looking at if you've got a couple of bigger devices that hog bandwidth.
If virgin was available in my area, it would be a no brained so had to settle for sky fibre Max. They bought the price down for it, because I was actually going to leave because of the shit normal broadband service.I'm with Virgin. It is expensive, but the best broadband by far I think.
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To be honest actually thinking about it. You'll be right, not everything will be on draining bandwich at the same time. I just want something which will make the devices they are connected to work as best as possible. I am getting the new sky q internet hub which for some strange reason only has 2 Ethernet ports, so I'm going to need to sort one out soon. Can anyone recommend one?
How about something like this?
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/comput...008d-8-port-ethernet-switch-10137897-pdt.html
I've counted and I've got at least 5 to connect up.
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Yeah I know. it was so surprising that someone actually sorted it all out in one simple call.
We were amazed too
Yes unfortunately we can't get Virgin in our area either as have heard good things about their broadband. So it's between Vodafone and PlusNet at the moment.If virgin was available in my area, it would be a no brained so had to settle for sky fibre Max. They bought the price down for it, because I was actually going to leave because of the shit normal broadband service.
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Yes unfortunately we can't get Virgin in our area either as have heard good things about their broadband. So it's between Vodafone and PlusNet at the moment.
Plusnet did not impress me, I left them about 8 years ago when they failed to fix my service which had inexplicably dropped from a decent level to a crawl even though I'm barely 500m from the local exchange and I hadn't done anything. Switched supplier (to Talktalk then) and rate improved from 1Mb to 12Mb, that was on their cheapest tariff too! I quit Talktalk when they were hacked, didn't fancy risk. :bucktooth:
I quit Talktalk when they were hacked, didn't fancy risk. :bucktooth:
Yeah Virgin is fast, but they are robbing b*****ds, and the router can drop out sometimes. Looked online and there seems to be a common problem with the router. My virgin box has started having problems too. I really need to ring up, complain and threaten to leave.I'm with Virgin. It is expensive, but the best broadband by far I think.
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We don't get that.Yeah Virgin is fast, but they are robbing b*****ds, and the router can drop out sometimes. Looked online and there seems to be a common problem with the router. My virgin box has started having problems too. I really need to ring up, complain and threaten to leave.
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Yeah Virgin is fast, but they are robbing b*****ds, and the router can drop out sometimes. Looked online and there seems to be a common problem with the router. My virgin box has started having problems too. I really need to ring up, complain and threaten to leave.
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We had a spell of about 3 weeks where we lost our broadband, but they did identify a cabling problem.
ON the flip of that.Virgin is certainly fast, and if you pay for the higher speed you can get a lot faster than with other services. The two problems I've experienced with it is massive slow down at peak times and when it goes wrong it goes wrong for a long time. Not uncommon for a whole area to go off and it take them weeks to fix.
Also in terms of speed its easy to get carried away when you see are looking around and see the speeds offered but always think about how fast you actually need it to be. I've got BT Infinity, the slower of the two Infinity options and I can be streaming HD TV, downloading etc at the same time and its never an issue.
Same as torch, just got 156mbWe have Virgin 200MB. cable just goes to a box in the house and then connected to the Superhub. Works brilliantly and lightning fast.
As for speed, never got 200MB DL but just done a speed test and got 178MB.
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