Where can I buy a 3rd party modem from? Any normal PC parts supplier: Amazon, Scan, Aria, CCLOnline, etc etc. You may be lucky from Currys or PC World; normally a bit expensive but quite often some good specials.
Over wireless... Speed from the exchange to home seems crazy tho!
Restart your router Jason and do the test again... I've never seen anything like that haha 🙂
Not the modem, the HomeHub.
you guys make me smile you post your speeds without giving out how far you are for the FTTC cabinet it seems a worthless thread without the full details, but i'll post my Speedtest.net speeds 725 meters from Cab on a 40/10 profile
how did you do this test please ?
the exchange / home / device - not speedtest.net lol
@jasonmymail The 'speed coming into your house' figure on that test is often a bit silly. Usually it is a synthesized guess of the sync speed using IPProfile*1.033; fairly often 0 (when they can't actually get at the IP Prolife), and there is at least one other post of a stupidly high figure like yours. That said; it usually gets the sync speed right, but that expectation makes it all the more confusing when it gets it wrong.
It is much better to run the speedtest at http://speedtest.btwholesale.com/ and after the test choose ‘Further Diagnostics’ and post the speeds and the profiles that this gives. That gives a 'raw' IP Profile speed which is more meaningful than the BT Retail test's synthetic 'speed coming into you house'. Unfortunately, without an unlocked modem you can't actually see the modem->cabinet sync speed ('speed coming into your house').
@Ripsta You can do the pretty but silly BT Retail test at http://diagnostics.bt.com/login/?workflow=Speed
But see my previous post for why it is a bad idea.
It's matched the sync perfectly for me every time... abpart from whenI had a bRAS mismatch.
is this good?
Yes, You're more than likely sync'd at the max 80Mbps on your downstream. 🙂