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Great news! UK Online Broadband 8000 is available in your area.

You can receive the service and should be able to achieve up to 8Mb download speeds.


sounds good to me, even though after so long of waiting on the 2Mb unlike ntl they have no migration so basically they put you on bt's exchange until ukonline are enabled in your area. which then means at the moment you cannot upgrade to the 8MB until mid next month when they have a system to upgrade you from bt. sucks dont it. its available to you and at the same time its not haha. of course if you cancle the 12 month contract u have to pay them so no way round it. but definatly worth the wait 29.99 for such fast speeds

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Your copper pair has to be rejumpered from the BT linecard and DSLAM to the Easynet owned one unfortunately, and at the moment there is no process in place for BT Wholesale to do this in one hit, it has to be done as a cease / reprovide rather than a simple migration.

Good for you though sir, wish I could get it! Groundbreaking deal by any stretch.

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thanks, i happen to agree after all this waiting its finally available to me :angel:
and even better they think ill get full 8Mb i seen alot of posts where they say you wont get 8Mb but 4Mb so it could be worse. waiting an extra month is worth it.... but i had no idea they would use bt to give me the services so its like im with bt not ukonline .....

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so anwyays i was talking to a fellow ukonline user and he did a speed test for me... he is on the 8Mb now so for those who are intrested

Direction Actual Speed True Speed (estimated)
Downstream 2644 Kbps (330.5 KB/sec) 2855 Kbps (inc. overheads)
Upstream 432 Kbps (54.0 KB/sec) 466 Kbps (inc. overheads)


this is what he sent me... not sure how close to exchange he is but am finding out.. intresting to see speed tests :)

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That looks like about 3Mbps download (actual DSL synch rate, not usable rate) and full 512k upload synch.

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I wouldn't mind that upload speed!

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My order goes into tomorrow and because im close enough to the exchange they think ill get full speed :)

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most definatly worth it. i got the 8Mb now i am 2.2km away from exchange and i always get full download speed, maxes out at 960kbytes which is perfect. how close are you to the exchange? ive seen bad reviews of the isp people live closer then 1km and they have bad service from ukonlie less them 2MBit i guess the area most demand for the 8Mbit get slower services as to many on it good thing to wait that bit extra and be in a area not in much demand for it :D

i think cambridge is one of the main city's where ukonline is based so i read on bbc web site

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2.8 k im expecting most of the 8 meg :)

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Really?

Considering that the 8Mbit is actually about 7.2 once the ATM overheads are gone I think there's a little over-enthusiasm there.

The 8Mbit refers to the ATM rate, there's about 10% that has to be lost in ATM headers, not including the IP headers, PPP overhead, TCP overheads, etc, so 800+kbit of that 8Mbit won't even touch your network card / PC, let alone be usable!

Fastest UKOnline download I've seen is about 860, most sustained I've seen is around the 820-830kB mark, which is about right. No-one can get near to 960 it is quite literally impossible.

I really hope you're not going to say to me 'you must be wrong because that's what I get' it isn't and we both know this. 8Mbit cable you'd see 960, 8Mbit (ATM rate) DSL no chance.

Is a regular speed.

6.7Mbps, about 1.25Mbps lost in overheads, about right considering the NDO test does a slight overestimate, claims my 2Mbit DSL can do 239.7kB/s which it can't, best it does is 235 or so.

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it doesent stay on 960kbytes for very long sometimes about a minute on average i get 840kbytes thats what it sticks at most the time but maxes at 960 for a few mins at most but at like 3am. Cable is faster, maybe one day if bt ever install fibre networks it will go same speed as cable.


few ppl getting bad reviews on ukonline

by Anonymous on Feb 28, 2005 - 01:22 PM I am a new user of the UKOnline 8000 service. I am less than 1km cable length from my local exchange.

To UKOnline and Zen Internet's credit the migration was quick and easy.

However, the internet connection has been very poor so far. Connection speeds are occasionally 6Mbit, but degrade very quickly. The supplied modem/router device quickly crashes, despite running a linux OS, and fails to respond to a barrage of pings.

I have updated the actiontec modem firmware.

I have spoken to UKonline, they have been quick to answer the phone and have not dismissed the problem. Initial response was to reduce the line speed to 7Mbit, because there was some noise on the line. Today I hear that this problem is not uncommon and they are looking at providing static IP addresses to all 8000 customers.

They also offered to refund subscription paid to date.



Also this guy 2.7km away from exchange claims he is getting less then 2Mbit and having worse then 56k modem, though when i tried using wireless i got crap it went so slow nothing would work i think that guy was trying to use wireless. I guess it same with ntl i had perfect services and others had crap, same with my 8Mbit ukonline the speeds are great, will probably go back with ntl once adsl2+ comes out if the price/cap is right, fibre network faster speeds sounds good to me :) unless ukonline go fibre before then.

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Thanks for clarifying your remarks and providing an honest viewpoint rather than being a fanboy :tu:

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Thats ok, alot of good and bad reviews i found all the bad ones first before i left for ukonline the unlucky ones in the busy areas maybe ukonline knew them places would have the most problems.....

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tw pdf files shwoing trials of 10Mb. wonder what the upload will be

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Im really cheesed off
ukonline were ment to have got my modem to me yesterday
There customer services are useless its an 0845 number last night I waited 1.5 hours on it and got nowhere,now im waiting and have been for another hour,I will demand compo but its besides the point,if something goes wrong I will not be able to get in tough,Ive made a serious blunder entrusting ukonline I will not recommend it to anyone