• Kate

    Kate

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    • Hi Charlie, 89kbps that’s awful, I do hope you get an increase in speed. Group B has been a lifesaver for me too.

      When people were mentioning switching to Linux on here, I thought I’d contact my bank and building society but unfortunately, neither support anything on Linux only Windows or else I would switch to Linux myself.

      By the way, I completely agree with your second paragraph. Kate

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    • in reply to: Going to Windows 10 on a very slow internet connection #1857103

      Hi Alex5723, thank you for the link to ‘Windows 7 beyond end of life’.

      It’s not that I want to switch to Windows 10, I don’t, I very much doubt that Windows 10 would work on the connection I’m on. I’m just concerned about the security aspects after EOL but having read the thread, I would be so pleased and so relieved if I could follow a Group B type of list to keep me on Windows 7 for as long as possible. Seriously, if it wasn’t for the contributors on this site and the Group B monthly list, I wouldn’t be on the internet at all. Kate

    • in reply to: Going to Windows 10 on a very slow internet connection #1857028

      Thank you all, I really do appreciate your replies!

      Hi satrow, at the moment our telephone and broadband service arrives at our house from the local telephone exchange via the existing copper phone line (not fibre optic cable) over a distance of about 5 miles (8.05km). This is no doubt why our broadband speed is so slow even at off peak times.

      However there is talk that our nearest (green) street cabinet is due to be connected to the telephone exchange via fibre optic cable. Openreach have stated that the speed at the cabinet will be 80Mbps but that our connection to the cabinet will still be via the existing copper wire, the length of which Openreach states to be 1.55 miles (2.5km). This is where things get confusing because Openreach has stated that “…the distance of the copper cable from the cabinet to the premises needs to be within 1.5km (0.93 miles) to support the service.”

      I took that (and similar remarks) by Openreach to mean that we simply live too far away to receive any speed increase even when the cabinet is eventually connected by fibre to the telephone exchange. I gained the impression that the copper wire cable connecting our house to the cabinet was simply too long to enable any speed increase at all.

      On the other hand, I’ve now seen graphs on 2 sites on the internet, plotting broadband speed against distance showing that I might actually have speeds approaching 10Mbps to 15Mbps if the green/street cabinet were enabled and if that happened, I would be ecstatic. It is a case of if and when though. Kate

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