TalkTalk Broadband

[PaulMacC]

My family is currently with BT who's Broadband service is really bad. It alternates so much, we're supposed to be getting 8mbps yet I get like 4mbps all the time. My dad got this guy round from TalkTalk so we waffled away for a while and measured the line and said we are getting 8mbps through it, that's alright, the price is better than BT & Virgin anyway. But he was talking about a booster for the speed and I checked up on the site, it said


Speed is important when you're downloading music and films or gaming online.
With our Turbo Boost you'll get up to 24Meg speeds! This means you can download a song in under two seconds, or a whole movie in less than four minutes...so instead of waiting for your downloads, you'll be busy building your families collection to entertain them over the summer.
And at only £4 per month, our prices knock the socks off other fast broadband providers. Getting the same broadband speeds with Sky's BB Unlimited + Sky TV will cost you £331.69 more* and with Virgin's XL Size BB you'll be paying a whopping £106.69 more*.
Turbo Boost
Compatible router required. We´ll give you the highest available speed up to 24Mbps. Top speed depends on line quality, internal wiring and proximity to BT exchange.

There is like a BT tower around a 10 minute walk from here, would the turbo boost make any difference to the speed?

[GoldenMerc]

Iv just left TalkTalk because of the slow internet (i posted it somewere it was ludicrisly slow) never the less it constantly disconnected aswel, im now with virgin with is marginly better

[PaulMacC]

It all depends on your area though Ross. You live out in the country so yeah.

[GoldenMerc]

I live right next to Birmingham :P

[Mickword]

I'm with TalkTalk, there quite good tbh, I was with sky broadband but I went with TalkTalk. Its OK as I said, but every time someone calls the house phone the Internet DC's, and when you hang up it DC's as well.

[PaulMacC]

Oh, my dad just told me he was a salesman and only played along so BT would phone him and offer him better stuff for free lolwut

[Recursion]

Odd, we get the maximum speed our line can physically handle 24/7 (yes we live out in the countryside.)

http://www.speedtest.net/result/606443102.png

[GommeInc]

How do these boosters work? BT was advertising a booster in their latest adverts and it sounded interesting (not the BT part, just the booster :P). They sound too good to be true :/

[Jahova]

It depends on your line, because I am getting 4MBPS at the most and that's all that my line can handle, which is a joke really.

[The Professor]

TalkTalk is just AOL with a different name, my AOL service is horrendous so yeah I wouldn't go with them.

[BeanEgg]

TalkTalk is just AOL with a different name, my AOL service is horrendous so yeah I wouldn't go with them.

What's your speed and how much do you pay? What are you meant to get?

This is mine:http://www.speedtest.net/result/608229023.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
I pay £10 a month for 8MB with AOL but I just get 6MB.

[JustDAVE]

It all depends on your area though Ross. You live out in the country so yeah.
And you live in Northen Ireland lol

Anyway, just keep with BT Vision, you should have no say, its you're dads decision.

[Luke]

And you live in Northen Ireland lol

Anyway, just keep with BT Vision, you should have no say, its you're dads decision.


My grandad used to habe BT, and it was horrible, slow, d/cing, and support was crap.
Switched to sky, and everything much faster now, and never had a problem yet.

I personally have AOL - bad imo.
And talktalk are worse in my opinion, i went on their website, andd they said, max speed they could offer me was 3.5mbps, and i get 5mbps with AOL, so wasn't impressed there :S

[Recursion]

I can't see any problems with BT, our service has only been down once in the last 8 months and as soon as we got onto the phone with them it was fixed.

Dunno why you guys have all these problems! :P