Be Excellent To Each Other

Just did that now. Its showing 69.30Mbps where as before its always been around 64 so its defiantly gone up!

Those things are also fairly unreliable.

There are too many moving parts involved for anything like that to be accurate.

Not least the proliferation of Flash/video ads that seem to be plastered all over those speedtest websites that continually refresh with new ones, despite the speed tests saying that you shouldn't have anything using the connection while testing.

Which is also practically impossible.

Indeed.

My parents live in the a remote village in the Yorkshire dales.

BT have been pissing around doing repeated surveys that contradict each other for the last year with a view to getting some sort of Infinity service into the village no doubt on the back of the pile of government money they got.

So finally its all sorted and in a village of 45 houses everyone has got Fibre to the house so 330Mb down 20MB up .

My Dad went for the 76MB package as he said the 330Mb was more than he needed and obviously cost more.

He was at the village summer fete at the weekend and half the village is now writing to their MP complaining that they can't get the piss cheap 2MB service any more and that the fibre packages available are more expensive!

I got BT Infinity, and for the first week or so it was fine, then it all went wrong. I was woken up at about 3am by a strange sound coming from the living room, a sort of scratching sound.

I go to investigate, picking up my trusty hockey stick on the way. When I got to the living room, the BT Home Hub wasn't in its usual place, it was sitting in the middle of the living room floor.. it was... Chewing. There was blood leaking out of it's ports. I gasped in terror, and it turned, it's LEDs glaring at me malevolently. Before I could act, it scuttled out of the room into the kitchen, leaving bloody streaks on the carpet.

I eased open the kitchen door, my hockey stick gripped tight in my hands.

I scanned the kitchen carefully. I found the source of the blood, an unrecognisable pile of gore and organs in the corner by the washing machine. As I approached, I felt the soft touch of a Cat9 cable brush my shoulder.

I looked up in panic, as a black shape fell upon me. I swiped at it blindly, catching it with the crook of my weapon, and it hit the ground hard. I followed up with a frenzy of strikes, shattering plastic. I caught my breath...

I poked at the remains, plastic crackling, and gasped as I spotted the distinctive faceplate of a US Robotics modem. I snapped my head around towards the open window.

I caught a glimpse of the unholy power cable slipping out, leaving streaks of blood on the glass. I sobbed quietly, it had sacrificed one of its own to escape. I'm so sorry. People have been disappearing without trace, the police say it's unexplained, but I know the real reason.

But other than that, it's been pretty reliable.





Oh god, oh god, my WiFi has just connected... It comes...

*applause*

Good work.

Brilliant....

Superb!