Testimonials

If this site has provided useful information to improve your broadband speed, we would love to hear from you about your progress. Here are just a few recent comments that we have received, which demonstrate that there’s a lot you can do to improve your broadband speeds, so don’t give up hope! To get in touch, please email info@increasebroadbandspeed.co.uk. 

 

Thank you for such an interesting and comprehensive website. I have been looking for hard information about broadband for a long time – there is a wealth of vague and inconsistent information out there!

Mike Anderson

 

Way back in the distant past – circa February 2013, I emailed you about our broadband issues and you kindly offered some good advice. In short we have now, finally, got a good service. I would very much like to thank you for your support and encouragement to keep on complaining until the problem was resolved – even if it meant threatening that I would climb up the pole myself and “have a look at it if BT won’t”.

Thanks again for your much valued support and encouragement to persist. We got there in the end. Fingers and thinly coated copper wires crossed now that it stays fixed!

Miles Forsyth

 

Great site, and great explanation on the SNR changes.  This helped me increase mine as Plusnet would go into training mode any time I asked them to decrease the SNR to 6dB, or thereabouts.  It was so much easier to be in control of this my end and now getting a much faster stable connection.

GREAT! Thanks again for your help.

Ed Santos

 

Can’t remember how I came across your website a few weeks ago, but I’m glad I did. Thanks very much for your clear, concise and very informative site! I won’t pretend I understand all of it, but I’m much more clued-up than before and have much better broadband to show for it!

Steve Walker

 

Your website has been highly informative.

Owain Jones

 

Just to give you a quick update – I can now experience download speeds of up to 4.4Mbps which is great, and everything in terms of synch speed, SNR, attenuation etc. is extremely stable.

We could only dream of these speeds in the past! – God I wish I’d fitted this faceplate years ago!

Lindsay

 

Hi – I think your website is brilliant -I have adopted some of your tips and they’ve made a big difference.

Rob Knott

 

Great website with lots of useful information.

Tony

 

I read your article on SNR tweaks recently and decided to have a go. My router (supplied by TalkTalk) was starting to slow down, so I replaced it with a Billion 7800N. It installed quite easily and on day 2, I tweaked the SNR setting from about 11 to 6 – the change in speed was amazing!

Chris Rogers

 

Just fitted my ASDL face plate and noticed immediate improvement from 1.8mb – 2.2mb so just a wee note to say thanks for the advice. I can’t believe the difference it’s made for such a simple and cheap fix.

Bernard McQue

 

Thank you for providing such a detailed and informative site!

Peter Summers

 

Your blog is amazing. I am so excited to see all this advice on the net.

Johnson Sebastian

 

Just wanted to say thanks for such a great site and for de-mystifying the whole adsl process. After reading your articles I went and ran some tests, then disconnected the ring wire from my master socket. Staggering!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Before -  attainable rate 5664,  Connection rate 5088  and thanks to the BT profiling, upload speed of 3.7Mb based on speed tests.

After  – Attainable rate of 7712 connection rate of 7168

Thank you so much for this simple improvement, and also for explaining in simple, yet detailed terms the technology behind everything.

Mark Woodward

 

Thanks for the great advice. I just received and installed the face plate filter and my sync speed has more than doubled! Looking forward to corresponding increase in the IP profile in a few days…

George Wilkie

 

Thank you. Just plugging into the test socket has increased my download speed from 1.8mb/sec to 3.4mb/sec.  Filtered ADSL plate on its way.

Bryn Jones

 

A quick note to say I read your website and fitted a filtered face plate.

Initial results:

BE (O2) Broadband – download speed went up from 11.3Mbs to 12.7Mbs

This is on a line without any extensions on it.

I’ve played with the faceplate on a Tesco broadband line (C&W) and the differences were just incredible – 1.3 Mbs -> 6Mbs.  Taking out the extensions/bell wire may have been the big difference – which the faceplate did for us.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge on the web.  I really like reading your info. It’s rare to find sound and accurate information and knowledge on the internet and your website is absolutely excellent.

Sanjay Patel

 

I just came cross your webpage and found it very useful information.

Iya Whiteley

 

Having seen your site I bought an ADSL faceplate from Amazon for a couple of quid and the results were instantaneous, with a much improved download speed. 

I bought the Billion router you recommended from Amazon.  It was working five minutes after I opened the box.  I was able to set up a new wireless network with two laptops, a smartphone, an I-pad and an I-phone within 15 minutes.  That was two months ago.  It hasn’t dropped the connection once in that time!

For a long time, I was one of those who believed that all routers must be pretty well the same.  How wrong could I be?

Dr Bob Sterritt

 

Thank you for your really useful article and website on broadband speeds.

Nick Ross

 

Thanks for your website – most educational.

David Whitton

 

I’ve enjoyed reading the information on your website….well done.

Colin Quin

 

Thanks for your tips. They have allowed my line speed to go up from 750kbs to 1meg!

Barry Higham

 

Thanks for your really helpful web site.

Adrian Loening

 

What a great website you guys have. I have struggled to understand what goes on at BT and how to get my broadband faster for years.

Thanks to installing an ADSL faceplate I gained 0.5Mbps over having the router plugged into the test socket via a ordinary filter. I also got a Billion router and reduced my SNR to 6.3 and I got another 1 Mbps gain.

Total increase 1.5 Mbps within 24 hrs. I pray that it remains as good as this!

Andrew Vernon

 

Thanks for your amazing review of Sharedband.

Cliff Smith

 

I just wanted to email and thank you for the excellent advice on your site particularly your recommendation of Billion modems and the Sharedband service. We run our own video and photographic business from home so decent broadband is a priority for use.

On your recommendations I purchased two Billion 7800 modems then the Sharedband service using Linksys routers. Using the Sharedband service we now get about 10.3Mbps/1.1Mbps!

Once again thanks for the recommendations and an excellent website.

Nigel Barker

 

Thanks for the super-useful information regarding tweaking the SNR setting to increase broadband speeds.
I have just updated the firmware on my Billion 7800N and, using the SNR tweak to lower the SNR from around 10 to 3.3 I have increased the downlink speed from 7.49Mbps to an incredible 10.32Mbps!
 

David Slater

 

First a thank you for your website. I followed the steps you suggested and I finally have a stable broadband connection (including a very helpful email response when I had issues!) so thank you very much.

Jack Allwood

 

The results have been impressive. I dropped the SNR down to 3.6 and activated the PhyR, and the downstream sync rate has jumped from 2800kbps to 4000kbps and the effective download rate has gone from 220kB/s to an astounding 350kB/s!!!!  This evening, I’ve bothered Amazon again for an ADSL faceplate to replace the existing BT i-Plate following your advice.  Thanks you guys. You have made a frustrated invalid very happy!! 

Nick Randall-Smith

 

I read your web pages on how to maximise adsl2 speed and it’s been a revelation!

Andy Cruise

 

Thanks very much for your helpful site. I did purchase a 7800n via your link to Amazon. The difference is amazing.

Colin Massey

 

Thanks for making this easy to understand. Just tweaked my SNR and got 20% increase. Thanks again!

Andrew Wright

 

Thanks for a great website.

Carl Gerrard

 

I’ve been banging my head against a wall with my ADSL speed for the best part of four years now.  Tried all manner of routers, iPlates and so on but was still struggling along with a choppy 2.4 meg on a long line.

On the basis of your advice, I got myself a 7800n router and a Openreach filtered faceplate, in a final attempt to squeeze a bit more out of my connection.

 The 7800n didn’t make much difference initially, my SNR was already quite aggressive, but changing the faceplate has been a revelation!  I’m now sitting at a stable 4.2 meg and I’m grinning wildly as I’m typing this!

Great advice guys!  A 70% improvement is beyond my wildest dreams so massive kudos to you for the quality of your guidance.  I will be recommending your site to all my friends who are in the same boat.

Thanks again,

Andy Lea

 

Hi! Just to say, the Billion arrived and I installed the latest FW and configured as per your advice. Sync immediately increased to 5,100 from around 3,500, with a corresponding increase in DL speed – and seems stable.

Not very exciting by city-slicker fibre optic standards, but pretty wonderful for Goxhill -;), and the fastest I’ve ever had.

Billion should start an ad campaign aimed at us yokels who live far down the copper wire. Once again – sincere appreciation and thanks.

Phil

 

Just a quick thank you for your info on getting better speed. By tweaking the SNR on my Billion 7800N as suggested by you, I managed to increase the speed from 8.3 Mbps to 10.8 Mbps, with a SNR of 6.2 (reduced from 12.x). Thanks again,

Urs, Yamba, Australia

 

Hi, i just want to say thanks for the informative webpage regarding the Billion 7800n. I have used the snr tweak and now get a steady 4 meg, before when using my sky router i was getting between 2meg and 3.2meg. Also updated the firmware via your page. This is the most reliable router i have have owned. (had it for 2 months now without a problem). Thanks for the help. Best Regards,

Gavin Hawkey

 

Hi there, I love your site, incredibly informative and very well written. Many thanks, and congratulations on building such a great site. Regards,

Craig Rich

 

I would like to say thanks to you and your website. It has assisted me on my quest to improve my broadband speeds. Thanks,

Sam Douglas

 

Many thanks for taking the trouble to include the Billion information on your site.  I came across it by chance, and am so glad I did. Your tips/information for manipulating the SNR will be invaluable. Anyway, thanks again for your Billion info. Regards,

Phil Cauldwell

 

I am writing to thank you so much for the info provided on your excellent site which has on several counts enabled me to sort out my broadband connection with my ISP.  I have found your site excellent reading and informative and have acquired know-how to help friends and family who have no technical bones in their bodies. A grateful surfer…regards,

Paul Gaydon

 

Thanks for the info and guidance.  Thanks for the info on the Billion.  Cheers,

Dan

 

Greetings from Aberdeenshire!  Thanks for a great website. Regards,

Carl

 

 Thank you for the great website! Never knew my 7800N could do the things you mentioned.

 Ashan Roche

 

Thank you for your very informative website — very useful.   Regards,

 Karl

 

Just wanted to say thank you as I purchased a Billion 7800N and have achieved some speed improvements, much better than the Netgear DGN3500 I did have. Thanks,

Mat

 

Thanks again for the website and your kind and patient advice. I feel a donation to a charity of your choice is called for. Would you like to propose such a charity? Regards,

Peter

 

Many thanks for a very interesting web page on my big domestic IT bug-bear: ADSL speeds here in the sticks (South Cambs & middle of nowhere in terms of BT cables). I admire your web site and not doubt it will help many so well done for that. Many thanks,

Peter

 

Many thanks for your excellent article, really useful. I have now had the Billion 7800n for the last week after speed issues with my Linksys 160 N ( or at least I think it was down to the router).

Purchased the Billion based on the information on your website and things are looking up.  Once again many thanks for article, great help. All the best,

Chris White

 

Excellent informative page on the Billion 7800N router.  Best regards,

Geoff Cronyn

 

My broadband seems to be working, yeah !!! Thank you very much for your help. Cheers,

Anthony Baxendale

 

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