Here's my result, seems reasonable but I don't know for sure
Thats just over 0.5 Meg broadband.
JD, I have been with Sky since leaving AOL last September and after a month of fluctuating speeds it settled down to an average of 6meg, for me this isn't bad at all as I am a good mile and a bit away from my exchange. If your mate is getting 14.7 he probably lives very close to his exchange.
Well... Apparently you should be getting much more than that. I have really looked in to this...
Apparently its all down to a) distance from your line (like you say) and something called signal noise ratio (SNR) and attenuation which you can access on your broadband router pages. All pretty much to do with the amount of noise on your line. If its noisy get BT to do something about it. I live 1.5km from my exchange according to the websites and it says I can get around 16-20 Meg on the new ADSL2 (which is what Sky and Be are using).
The website was something like dslzone.co.uk or something like that.
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