BT has been given the green light to roll out new faster broadband services using fibre optics – and we are calling on the telecoms giant to start here.
The Bradley Stoke Examiner is launching a campaign to highlight how bad broadband is here in the town.
Despite being built within the past twenty years, Bradley Stoke suffers from a sub-standard broadband service.
A straw poll on this website showed a majority of connections are below the national average.
Now we want your help to petition BT to begin the roll out of their fibre-to-cabinet service, which will offer speeds of up to 40mbps, here in Bradley Stoke.
We need as many of you as possible to sign the comments on this story saying you want faster broadband.
We will deliver the petition to BT in the hope that they will listen to the second-class broadband customers of Bradley Stoke.
Get signing – and make sure you tell your friends about this campaign.
61 responses so far ↓
1 slicknic // Mar 3, 2009 at 5:24 pm
More info here http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/03/historic_day_for_broadband_bri.html
Good news for those without access to Virgin Broadband.
2 Simon // Mar 3, 2009 at 6:12 pm
I would make use of faster broadband. It’s an obvious place to show the benefits – high density of broadband users with limited connection speed and decent quality wiring from the boxes to the houses.
3 DaveP // Mar 3, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Presumably not the most expensive either as they’d just be pulling wires between manhole covers..??
I’ll sign petition.
4 Dylan // Mar 3, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Sign me up…
5 Jean-Louis Bourdon // Mar 4, 2009 at 9:17 am
I want faster Broadband too. The current service is ridiculous. 512k…
6 Andy // Mar 4, 2009 at 9:25 am
It would also help if Virgin cabled the rest of BS. Then BT would have a bit of competition.
Sign me up anyway…
7 JamesF // Mar 4, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Sign me up!
8 Al // Mar 4, 2009 at 12:38 pm
I want faster broadband!
9 Mayur // Mar 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm
We definitely need faster broadband in Bradley Stoke. BT/SKY claim my line supports a few Mbits , I have never seen it go above 400kBps
10 AndyB // Mar 4, 2009 at 1:12 pm
Sign me up. I am sick of receiving blurb from BT regarding BT vision and then finding I cant sign up because of the pitiful 512Kbps line speed we endure today. Bradley Stoke is twinned with Champs-Sur-Marne in France. I understand that in France, their broadband providers offer 100 Mbps as standard ! What must they think when they come to visit Bradley Stoke ??
11 Craig // Mar 4, 2009 at 6:16 pm
Sign me up!
12 Steve // Mar 4, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Yes, sign me up – with the number of professional people (me included) concentrated in Bradley Stoke who are currently, or will in the future, working more from home, then a good broadband infrastructure is definately needed to cope.
13 Porson // Mar 4, 2009 at 11:11 pm
I would love to have faster broadband. The max I can get is 512kps.
14 Mike // Mar 4, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Broadband is a joke here. I am one of the lucky ones who have Virgin Media cable in my street (one of the oldest parts of Bradley Stoke). I also have ADSL Sky Broadband as a backup (got it free), the speed is appalling. I really hope BT sort there act out and improve the local network.
15 simon // Mar 5, 2009 at 3:44 am
sign me up
16 MKII // Mar 5, 2009 at 10:51 am
Faster Broadband very much needed.
17 Lofty // Mar 5, 2009 at 10:54 am
Increase in speed is well overdue.
18 anon // Mar 5, 2009 at 12:58 pm
sign me up the faster the better!!!!
19 abi // Mar 5, 2009 at 4:43 pm
sign me up!!
20 Wolf // Mar 5, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Very slow broadband,not much point turning it on between 7 and 9pm unless your patient. The traffic at Aztec West at 9am is faster……………..
21 Cllr Robert Jones // Mar 6, 2009 at 7:40 am
As a broadband user myself I share the frustrations of everyone who has already posted and I fully support the Examiner’s campaign for faster broadband in Bradley Stoke.
22 PB // Mar 6, 2009 at 9:17 am
sign me up! South Bradley Stoke is even worse.
23 Greg // Mar 6, 2009 at 11:12 am
Definitely want and need this here in BS. I’ll be up for it.
24 AndyD // Mar 6, 2009 at 12:23 pm
Sign me up! Faster broadband is required and the current slow speed prevents people from being able to work from home efectively.
25 Sian // Mar 6, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I would like faster broadband please!
26 Andy N // Mar 7, 2009 at 6:07 am
I’d love to have more than the 2mbit/s I currently get. Would make my job so much easier.
27 Dan // Mar 7, 2009 at 9:04 am
Faster Broadband Required as avg of 512k is not good enough!!!!
28 Matt Morris // Mar 8, 2009 at 2:02 pm
Sign me up!!
29 Chris Pearce // Mar 8, 2009 at 10:45 pm
The speeds in my road are so dire, I went for mobile broadband instead !!
I’d be over the moon with just the national average at this point !!!
30 Mark // Mar 9, 2009 at 5:12 pm
Please supply a better service in Bradley Stoke.
Modern Town, Modern Infrastructure !
31 Ian // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:19 pm
Everybody would love faster BB in Bradley Stoke but think of this, if you were BT would you choose Bradley Stoke to install Fibre to every household at significant cost to yourself and get little return when most users don’t even use BT for BB. Myself, I’m in Ellan Hay and get 1.8 Meg from Sky (Filton ex) which is more than enough. Unless users are downloading films/music/ games etc why do you need more? I sympathise with the users who only get 512 though as that’s what I got until I move to Sky and instantly get over 1Mb improvement
32 Chris (editor) // Mar 9, 2009 at 8:58 pm
Ian – it’s most likely because Sky/Easynet uses ADSL2+, which other providers on the Filton exchange do not yet support. Some do on Almondsbury (Enta/BT) but speed increases are pretty modest.
33 Ian // Mar 9, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Chris – That’s a fair comment but the main reason the ISP’s don’t provide ADSL2+ is more than likely the cost they have to pay BT Wholelsale to provide it. Why would Sky users move to an ISP (BT) that they have to pay for when (the basic BB) is free with your Sky subscription? I know I wouldn’t pay for something I could get for free. Hence BT have the ISP’s (& subscribers) by the short & curly’s
34 Simon // Mar 11, 2009 at 5:07 pm
Ian – by using Sky you are using BT. Sky provide the connection to the outside world, but BT provide the infrastructure to link you from your house to the sky servers (probably in London somewhere). Sky pay BT for this service. Even a loop unbundled connection still has to use BT’s bit of copper from your house to the local exchange. It’s that bit of copper that’s limiting you to 1.8mbits.
If BT put fiber to the local junction boxes (not even all the way to your house) we can all get 40Mb – not the piddling 1.8Mb you get right now. I’m sure all internet providers will support this in the same way they do now (i.e. you will still be able to get your internet from Sky if you so wish).
35 Luke // Mar 11, 2009 at 11:52 pm
Faster Broadband Please 1.5mbs max. not good enough for modern town.
36 Natalia Roberts // Mar 12, 2009 at 7:54 am
Have constant problems caused by slow connection.
37 Dianna // Mar 12, 2009 at 12:36 pm
It took long enough to get broadband! Why should we be left behind when others can get much better speeds. Faster broadband please.
38 James // Mar 16, 2009 at 1:04 pm
I am prevented from working from home because of the poor broadband provision. For a town with such a high proportion of professional people in residence, the awful broadband service available to the majority of Bradley Stoke residents is simply unacceptable.
39 Giles // Mar 16, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Good news from the council. Cannot believe that over the road from Juniper Way, users can get must faster than 500K. Sign me up!
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41 Steve // Mar 17, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Yes please – faster broadband is the way forward. Working at home with the 1.5MB I get is painful.
Please please please hurry with fibre-to-cabinet service.
42 Lee P // Mar 18, 2009 at 8:33 am
Broadband in Bradley Stoke is horrific.
For a newish large estate you would expect there to be a decent infrastructure.
Our current broadband speed is 420k and no there is no problem with the internal house wiring.
43 Jon // Mar 19, 2009 at 12:24 pm
Yes, faster broadband please. Especially as last week my speed dropped by 1Mbps for no apparent reason.
44 Andrew Wells // Mar 20, 2009 at 10:40 am
I’ve just moved to the area from rural Bedfordshire, and I was surprised that my braodband speed fell when I moved here.
45 Moe // Mar 20, 2009 at 5:02 pm
Orange has completed updating my broadband service. I’ve just checked and it’s now 6.23Mb.
I live in Woodlands Lane and am on the Almondsbury exchange.
46 Dave // Mar 31, 2009 at 8:08 pm
We need faster broadband in Bradley Stoke and it appears that BT control ‘All’ speeds because of their monopoly on phone lines
47 Kay Dace // Apr 2, 2009 at 11:02 am
Champs Sur Marne in Bradley Stoke, Bristol have the most appalling broadband connection and speeds. This needs to be addressed ASAP.
48 Jon // Apr 2, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Lavender Way – I used to get 1mb, and in the past month it’s dropped to about 300k! Rubbish!
49 Grahm // Apr 12, 2009 at 9:15 am
Palmers Leaze in bradley stoke have terrible broadband speeds – maximum speed i can get here is 512kbps on sky broadband. BT need to get their act together and upgrade the phonelines – fast!
50 Dave // May 1, 2009 at 10:06 pm
Bradley Stoke South very slow.
51 Chris // May 2, 2009 at 1:15 pm
Faster broadband is desperately needed.
52 Andy // May 6, 2009 at 10:41 am
Juniper Way. 1.75MBit/s here. Almondsbury exchange. ADSL. no Virgin cable anywhere near me.
I have my ADSL fully optimised… replacement faceplate, best long-distance router, shielded cable, filtered power. double-filtered phone sockets.
The BT offering in this area is frankly appalling.
53 Ben // May 7, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Sign me up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
54 Simon // May 7, 2009 at 9:32 pm
This is not BT fault, really! When the exhcnage was built, there was only a village and a few hundred houses near by, not even a motorway.
When the developer started build Bradley Stoke, all houses should have had BT and Cable fitted as standard. Then I would have the chance of 50MB, and not 5MB.
It is really annoying that the roads to the left and right of ours have cable, and fast broadband but we do not.
Is it possible for Virgin to add ‘missed’ streets (not built when Cable was rolled out). I appreciated it will not be cheep, but literal 5 meters from our back wall, we have a TeleWest footpath cover!
55 Bruce // May 9, 2009 at 9:45 am
We live in Palmers Leaze on the Filton Exchange with Sky Internet upto 8mb and we we’re on 512kbps which is terrible. After some fiddling at Sky/BT’s end we’re now on 916kbps.
Still terrible that in 2009 we’re dont even get 1MB!
56 Chris // May 13, 2009 at 6:47 pm
I live in Juniper Way attached to Almondsbury. BT & Orange are 512kbps here (next door neighbour has both) but TalkTalk are claiming 2Mbps. Don’t see how this is possible as all using the same infrastructure. Anyone any thoughts on these claims or have experiences of TalkTalk since they moved into Almondsbury?
57 Simon // May 13, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Hi
Good news!
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/13/vigin_media_expansion/
With a bit of luck, Virgin can add the rest of Bradley Stoke to their network and I can get a 50MB service!
58 Chris (Editor) // May 13, 2009 at 8:35 pm
Simon, we have been in touch with Virgin for a little while now. I’m told we will have news within a few days. Watch this space – it may (and I stress may) be good ….
59 Chris (editor) // May 19, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Hi everyone. As promised, good news from Virgin Media.
http://www.sadlybroke.com/2009/05/19/virgin-media-exclusive/
Can I plead with everyone to visit this page and e-mail the address listed … They won’t roll it out unless we all prove to them there is a demand.
Chris
60 Fiona Gayther // May 21, 2009 at 10:18 am
I moved here recently and signed up with Plusnet – BIG mistake! I cannot believe how slow broadband is here. Upgrade the exchange NOW!!!
61 john Ferguson // Jul 4, 2009 at 10:05 am
Broadband speed in Coriander Drive is pathetic. I have been here for about 4 years and it remains pathetic at best. C’mon BT get you damn act together. I will leave BT broadband this month and go to Sky so I don’t contribute to the BT coffers anymore!
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