Hello all!

I'm thinking about migging to UKOnline in the next few days (have had my MAC
code sorted for about 15 days now so its getting to the time I should be
thinking of ordering).

I was just wondering if anyone had already migrated to the 8000kbit/s
service and what their thoughts were? I've been reading a few horror stories
on ADSLguide of people going from nice solid 230kbytes/s on Pipex 2Mb to
20-30 on UKOnline 2Mb and its scaring me a bit...

Thanks for your help,

Maj

I'm on the 8Mb, have been for about a month now, and while we don't actually
connect at 8Mb (usually about 7.2Mb, which I put down to the phone sockets
in our house) it is very very quick. The theoretical max for a 7 meg
connection would be about 900kB/s download speed, we don't get that, it
usually tops out at about 600kB/s which I guess is down to contention, and
just slow net speed.
There are occasional drop-outs, slightly more than I used to get with BT
Yahoo, but all we need to do is restart the router and it's usually fine.

All in all, I think it's a great service, and for the price is a bargain.


"Majuran Manohasandra" <majuran@replace.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hello all!
>
> I'm thinking about migging to UKOnline in the next few days (have had my
> MAC code sorted for about 15 days now so its getting to the time I should
> be thinking of ordering).
>
> I was just wondering if anyone had already migrated to the 8000kbit/s
> service and what their thoughts were? I've been reading a few horror
> stories on ADSLguide of people going from nice solid 230kbytes/s on Pipex
> 2Mb to 20-30 on UKOnline 2Mb and its scaring me a bit...
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Maj
>