No cost to change

Its download amount I believe, the speed touted for each is the same.

Being enraged about this when I moved to Willerby from Driff (where I had much cheaper, faster and better broadband from virgin) I wrote and complained to everyone about how a whole city can be at the mercy of a monopoly. Got lovely replies from everyone from ofcom to David Davies MP; which basically said there was nothing they could do.

I even tried to argue that I don't officially live ion the city of Hull so why should I be forced to take Karoo and KC.

i pay £30 a month for a 12mb and only connect at 2.5mb if i am lucky. then my top download speed is around 200kbs. If you get a slow speed they should charge you less as i pay the same as people who do get the full 12mb. On top of that the free KC modem that I had to pay delivery on TWICE as I never received it the first time kept disconnecting every 5-10 minuets so I had to buy another one. On top of that I had a problem once so I had to ring KC where I had to talk them through how to fix the problem at their end. KC are a joke and in my opinion operate illegally due to their monopolistic behavior

Contention ratio, higher paying subscribers generally get a lower ratio = (supposedly) better speeds due to having less people able to share the same connection.

Living darn sarf, I'm at the end of an old copper wire exchange that is very poor. 1.3Mb download & 400kbs upload actual tested speeds. However plusnet who I use only charge me £17.74 for Broadband (not measured after midnight), line rental plus eve/weekend calls with 300min international included per month.

Virgin would prolly work out better all round but I can't be d with the poor customer service, SKY also has a very bad rep for this as well as not actually connecting your broadband up when they say they will.
IF you ever get the chance to use other carriers, dont go to SKY or Virgin way too much hassle.

what I was once told when on the kc helpline is that the contention ratio is 1:1 didnt believe it then and I dont believe it now either

Did they miss off a zero? I know that the CR's aren't generally fixed anymore with the advent of ADSL MAX but if KC are saying you guys get 1:1 with the speeds some of you are mentioning that doesn't add up, not even close!

It seems the whole of the Hull netowrk is paying way over the odds for a less than average product.

they keep telling us about the awards they win for thier speeds and services

We changed because it was cheaper but supposedly faster. Still only get just over 2 Mb/s. It's due to being about six miles from the nearest server in Cottingham apparently.

p.s. why is my sig not showing the image from speedtest.net?

check there isnt a tick in this box in your siganture bit in profile

Mine

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42mb down!? Are you sat in Telephone House?

Just done another 2 tests, one came back at 10mb the other at 93mb

If your not happy would you consider signing up with Axis telecom, were based in Hull and have got the cheapest line rental in the UK at £6.57 a month. £ 22.66 a month for free unlimited calls and broadband up to 8 meg speed and a 5 GB download allowance. All the information is on the website www.axistelecom.co.uk.

If your not happy would you consider signing up with Axis telecom, were based in Hull and have got the cheapest line rental in the UK at £6.57 a month. £ 22.66 a month for free unlimited calls and broadband up to 8 meg speed and a 5 GB download allowance. All the information is on the website www.axistelecom.co.uk.

If your not happy would you consider signing up with Axis telecom, were based in Hull and have got the cheapest line rental in the UK at £6.57 a month. £ 22.66 a month for free unlimited calls and broadband up to 8 meg speed and a 5 GB download allowance. All the information is on the website www.axistelecom.co.uk.

If your not happy would you consider signing up with Axis telecom, were based in Hull and have got the cheapest line rental in the UK at £6.57 a month. £ 22.66 a month for free unlimited calls and broadband up to 8 meg speed and a 5 GB download allowance. All the information is on the website www.axistelecom.co.uk.

How much did you pay RLFans for your advert?

Dont think that should matter when it comes to Karoo. It's more a public service that he's just offered.

no offence raynor the crab but i worked for axis a few years ago and i wouldnt touch them.dont you still have to pay line rental to kc? didnt think they was allowed to offer broadband to hull either?that must of changed in the last couple of years then.

Theyre lying to you, as simple as that, the thing that affects the speed as far as distance goes is how far you are from the exchange, and there is no way is there anywhere in the Cottingham area that is 6 miles away from an exchange.

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Well this is mine currently.

Bab, aint it....

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Maybe he means he's 6 miles from Cott, which is the nearest exchange?

This is mine in Cottingham:

You do have other options to Karoo now in Hull Airnet and NextGenUs To learn more your best bet is to head to karooforums.net/ in the karoo alternatives thread.

You do have other options to Karoo now in Hull Airnet and NextGenUs To learn more your best bet is to head to karooforums.net/ in the karoo alternatives thread.