All the talk of speed issues, are they taking into account the contention/traffic shaping problems most people face? Since NTL were taken over from virgin, peak time speeds have been horrid! We moved from virgin to Sky and its now even worse. come 11ish speeds fire up to around 700-800KB/s.

Don't forget this article is talking about the non-cable product. It does also seem to vary depending on where you are, even within a small local area.

yep it adsl i'm on. Pretty sure it just the exchange is over populated. lots of new houses been put up in the village in the last couple years.

Sky and Virgin are rank rotten

On ADSL myself. Thankfully I'm one of the lucky ones as I only live 50 or so metres from the exchange and the speeds are always really good.

Sky ftw?

Qs

just depends, my exchange isn't unlocked yet for LLU (think thats what it needs) to allow other providers equipment in. so all going through BT Whoelsale,

Whereasa my friend in the city exchange, Sky have their own shizzle in there and gets great speeds at all times.

Doesn't always follow tho'. Once you're LLU the ISP will manage their own contention which can vary enormously depending on provider. At least with a BT wholesale backed product you know the contention is fixed at 50:1 or 20:1 (business).

You could use these links to check the what not of your exchange

http://www.nildram.net/support/tools/congestion_checker/

http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/

If its bad then you might be lucky and have worked planed on your exchange that will be listed on the results pages