Hello,

I have been a member of this forum for some time now and have always received help and been grateful for it. I just have a basic question about broadband as I have a connection via BT Openworld only from today. Up to now I have been using AOL on dial up and my connection was typically 44 - 45,000 baud and when downloading it was at approx 4.5k per sec. With Broadband my diagnostics say my connection is 576 k but my downloading varies between 5 - 30 k per second.

Sure 30 k is much faster than before but I was expecting to get approx 60 - 70 k. Am I just being optimistic ? A friend of mine can d/l approx 1 meg of data in appox 9 secs. (We both have the same type of 512k connection.) I know he is much nearer to his telephone exchange than I am.

Is there anything I can do to speed things up or is it just a question of proximity to the telephone exchange as BT stated ?

If anyone can think of something I am doing wrong I would be glad to hear any suggestions however this is not urgent - I can surf and download. I just want to know if there is something I have not done but should.

Any tips / ideas would be welcome.

Thanks for reading , Have a good day.


KMIELKE123