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Broadband provider switch
Today I finally unplugged by BT Home Phone for the last time, and it was amazing. Now I’ve got a shinny new Netgear DG834GT. I’ve had a terrible experience with BT ever since we moved into my current house, but thankfully March was the last month of the contract. They still said I had to pay a leaving charge as they’d extended the phone line service until October, leaching bastards. Now however, we are with Sky, paying half the price for broadband and the phoneline. They also supply us with digital tv so it’s even cheaper, which is great.
The best part about the switch is the connection speed, the BT Home Hub was previously getting 578-1200Mb/s downstream 448Mb/s upstream, and the downstream would always change. I’ve just done another test on my new shinny Sky line and the results are good.
My Sky Broadband with Speedtest.net
The Netgear is saying 1856Kb/s downstream and 416Kb/s upstream, so all in all I’m pretty happy with the switch.