Best and worst of British Internet speeds revealed

This isn't a new story , it's been a problem since the onset of broadband , Now I wouldn't have a problem if I was charged accordingly but why should I pay the top price for half the service ? We were all encouraged to get on the internet bandwagon by the Blair regime and look whats happened , all promise and no delivery . Bloody typical of politicians past, present and future .

No surprise there. BT get your finger out!

I live in Stretford, Manchester, have a 50MB service with Virgin and invariably get 50MB download and 4.5 upload whenever I run a speed test. Brilliant!

I pay for 20MB with BT and get maximum 2MB, all through the little phone wire that was already connected to this house when we moved here 20 years ago. Where is the 'upgrading of the infra-structure' that we have all been paying (through the nose) for, for decades?

I pressed the post button in 1983,how long has this taken to appear

I signed up with sky for 17.99 a month for tv , phone & 10mbit broadband.
speed was very slow, less than 1mbit
the first bill showed they were intending to charge me an extra £7 per month as I was in a rural area
told them to poke it

The Postman brings my Broadband, takes two days to download a letter, and three days for a number.

bt should be ashamed of it new broadband my son lives within 1/2 mile of 2 telephone exchanges how near can you be especialy in a new tow milton keynes an guess what d/l speed 2.2mb/s the exchanges are at both ends of the road he lives in shame on you bt dont you make enought profits when you privatized anyone in the no could buy shares before they we available to the public for 25p, when they went public they were about £1.50 I know i made a killing selling my shares after only a week, i made £5.000 in3 days so much for Maggies privatization, shame on you conservatives and now there bum chums the liberal democrates who put there policies where a monkey puts its nuts

in Plymouth i get 2.70 megs but my line suposed to handle 3.60.
i also think you should only pay your isp by the speeds you get. the whole upto 20meg stuff they say in the adverts is a load of betty swallocks

I live in a small village in West Sussex, within the Horsham District Council area. I'm paying for "up to 8Mbps" when I'm actually getting less than 0.5Mbps - maybe I should only pay one sixteenth of my bill, since I can't receive the service which I was promised!

Why is BT expected to provide it's rivals with it's own cable network to provide a broadband service, yet Virgin with it's fibre optic cables does not. Surely that is a monopoly too and a waste of a resource that already exists

May I point out that Broxbourne is in Hertfordshire not Herefordshire. Is the rest of the article correct?

"up to...mbs" is an unacceptable con. Why? Because you are paying for "upto" - not for what you actually get! In my language that's a rip-off! But of course the providers are extremely happy with this arrangement. I can't imagine why!

Until they provide metering (yeah, right!) you will never know what you are actually getting, so you won't be in a position to prove that you are overpaying. Nice game, huh! (I just saw a provider crying all the way to the bank!)

It's the same for that "better than half price" slogan that's now being pushed around our t.v. screens. Note that it doesn't say "LESS than half price", which, to the vendor is worse than "BETTER (to the vendor) than half price"! How did the advertising authorities allow them to get away with that one?

Virgin has 100mb service, so i don't really understand what uswitch does, but definetely not a good job in the survey business. Just a fow pests before me someon says he's got 40mb. The survey found 18.865 is the max. Disgusting how much misleading information you can find in these articles...

I called out B.T. to check our router and the phone line as the connection speed was painfully slow, we were told "its slow at peak times", and peak times just happens to be when I want to use my computer. To be blunt I dont give a S@*t about other people using the internet, I pay B.T. for my internet connection, I expect to be able to connect when I want to connect, and not have to wait 5 mins to download a page from the web. The service that most of the internet providers are supplying is poor, but they still advertise "superfast this and download speed of the other" but they dont provide the goods.

The speed test on the BT website proves them to be liars I have never got more that 2.1 Mbs and they are saying I should get 2.5-4.5 , WHAT A LOAD OF BULL.

Try Feltwell . We dont even have a gas main here, only electric. If you want gas you have to get bottles.

If we had enough mbps, we would all cancel the BBC licence and strangle the lifeblood from a politically biased monopoly, yes? Emily's stopped transmitting analogue for good tonight so I'm listening to the radio until digital is turned on permanently with its endless channel swapping to see 'no signal... adverts... closedown... babestation... no signal... buy some tat... no signal... closedown... repeats... buy some tat... '. If you're writing a manifesto for a new political party, put broadband on the list, we need to join the civilised world.

Isfield in East Sussex is an I.T. black hole!!! : - mobile phone coverage barely existant in places, no availability for broadband in any shape or form, television reception still virtually at the black & white stage and no cable available yet - we still have to pay council tax at a high rate though and are waiting to see if Isfield will be deleted finally when digital tv goes "universal" or the church's covenants run out.

Southampton is just has fast has Leamington Spa if not faster if your on Virgin Media Cable, and it will come down to what Internet connection you get.