Stupid broadband is going slow again!

Ofcom has decided its about time something is done about the state of broadband in the UK. I don’t know about you, but my Internet connection speed is supposed to be 8 megabytes/sec and to be honest it does sometimes work at a speed I’d say is close to that. However, the other 60% of the time it can be patchy and up and down in speed. I have never thought to complain since I know that most of the time there probably is nothing that can be done. Not now . Next time it decides its going to take 10 minutes to download a song I’ll be right on the phone!

Those adverts that say ‘Speeds up to…’ are taking that ‘up to’ a little too far. Have a look at the small print and you’ll see it depends on how far your house is from the exchange. Well, I think that is a load of rubbish. Fair enough if the technology relies on these exchanges to work and yes there will be limitations but is it fair to advertise to everyone that they can get speeds of ’8 megabytes per second*’? Then after minutes of looking for this little asterisk finding out you live 3 miles from the exchange therefore your connection will be less – but you will pay the same price as Mr Jones who lives across the road from it relishing the full speed? I think not.. Similar unfair case for those people who pay for mobile phone contracts but their home / workplace are nowhere near a mast so they get poor signal on a day to day basis .

What is you actual connection speed? Check here or here. My ’8 megabyte’ connection only got ranked at 3 megabytes/sec… Bad day? Well, lets hope its just that! What is your connection speed? Does it ever mess you around disconnecting or working at much slower speeds than it’s supposed to?