razza699 Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Hi all , does anyone in the Royton area have an suggestions for decent broadband ? I currently live near the Halfway house on Rochdale road and I am getting 1 meg through Sky , however Im moving onto the Thorpe area near Royton Cricket club in a few weeks and I have been told by Sky my connection will be less than half a meg . I work from home a fair bit so this connections abit :censored: really. Ive had a look on http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker and it looks like half a meg is the standard. Anyone got any better speeds or is fibre optic the way forward ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alex_balls Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Hi all , does anyone in the Royton area have an suggestions for decent broadband ? I currently live near the Halfway house on Rochdale road and I am getting 1 meg through Sky , however Im moving onto the Thorpe area near Royton Cricket club in a few weeks and I have been told by Sky my connection will be less than half a meg . I work from home a fair bit so this connections abit :censored: really. Ive had a look on http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker and it looks like half a meg is the standard. Anyone got any better speeds or is fibre optic the way forward ? talk talk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razza699 Posted August 17, 2011 Author Share Posted August 17, 2011 talk talk what speed you get ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 No idea which is best. But see if any of those available via www.buy.at/xtra (PlayerShare webshop) are any good! Alternatively, what about the new Latics Broadband thingie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laticsbiffo Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Hi all , does anyone in the Royton area have an suggestions for decent broadband ? I currently live near the Halfway house on Rochdale road and I am getting 1 meg through Sky , however Im moving onto the Thorpe area near Royton Cricket club in a few weeks and I have been told by Sky my connection will be less than half a meg . I work from home a fair bit so this connections abit :censored: really. Ive had a look on http://www.samknows.com/broadband/broadband_checker and it looks like half a meg is the standard. Anyone got any better speeds or is fibre optic the way forward ? For reliably good speed I would recomend Virginmedia Broadband. I've never had any trouble with speed in Royton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
opinions4u Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 "Free" Sky is poor in my part of Royton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yard Dog Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 Same here. Couldn't get more than 0.5mb where I am in Royton, and BT didn't know when their fibre optic was coming to my street so ended up switching to virgin. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueJazzer Posted August 17, 2011 Share Posted August 17, 2011 I'm in Royton on virgin and I can still rake up some mean killstreaks on mw2 on wireless. So it can't be that bad.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razza699 Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 Same here. Couldn't get more than 0.5mb where I am in Royton, and BT didn't know when their fibre optic was coming to my street so ended up switching to virgin. what speed you getting on virgin ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razza699 Posted August 18, 2011 Author Share Posted August 18, 2011 I'm in Royton on virgin and I can still rake up some mean killstreaks on mw2 on wireless. So it can't be that bad.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yard Dog Posted August 18, 2011 Share Posted August 18, 2011 what speed you getting on virgin ? I went for the Virgin XL which is upto 30mb speed. I went for that because you got a free superhub or something, plus with the telephone line I took out from them, I got free installation.. think. Anyway - whenever I do a speedtest.net it comes up at just over 30mb, although I think they may cap the speed at peak hours. Haven't noticed though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razza699 Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 I went for the Virgin XL which is upto 30mb speed. I went for that because you got a free superhub or something, plus with the telephone line I took out from them, I got free installation.. think. Anyway - whenever I do a speedtest.net it comes up at just over 30mb, although I think they may cap the speed at peak hours. Haven't noticed though. drools Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldhamSheridan Posted August 19, 2011 Share Posted August 19, 2011 drools I'm guessing these MB's are more than KB's then. Does this mean you don't have to draw your own mucky pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
razza699 Posted August 19, 2011 Author Share Posted August 19, 2011 I'm guessing these MB's are more than KB's then. Does this mean you don't have to draw your own mucky pictures? MEGA ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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