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at 23:25 8 Aug 2014

Signal attenuation on fibre links is very low, on copper wire it is much more significant.

It sounds like the last leg of your connection is copper and if there is corrosion and interference from other cables then that would be like a motorway with only the hard shoulder open. A clear road and loads of vehicles get through per hour, with blocked lanes only a fraction of vehicles get through.

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internet speed
at 23:02 8 Aug 2014

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3677375839

A few years ago I was on 20 but dropped it down to 10 as for surfing I saw no difference. Since then they've doubled it twice for nowt.

I was with BT 's ADSL and that was very poor due to line distance from the exchange. At my work digs they have fibre optic and that's pretty good. It used to be rubbish because of the solid brick walls. Landlord relocated the router and now it is excellent, 30 down and 15 up.

On my Three phone I get 5 down and 1.5 up in my house. At my digs I can't even get a signal to receive a call.

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at 19:05 8 Aug 2014

I signed up to Al Jazeera (aka BEIN) last season. They quickly lost all games on a Saturday afternoon. Richard Keys was adamant that they were coming back but they never did.

Newcastle is my team and we are more popular TV wise than yourselves. A combination of being chosen for Sky/BT, playing Sundays against teams in Europe where the 3pm rule does not apply meant that I only had to resort to streaming a couple of times on a Saturday at 3pm. I got fed up with that and started a PLPass sub just before Christmas. Not long after that they upped their bit rate.

Their top rate is 4500kbits whereas BEIN is 3000 kbits. PLPass sticks to that 99% of the time whereas BEIN is up and down.

PLPass slaughters BEIN on picture quality. It is superb. You are also guaranteed every PL game with them.

BEIN on the other hand shows other leagues, the league cup and FA cup plus other sports like F1 and boxing. Boxing on Sky's box office and Box Nation's are part of the package. BEIN also do a proper presentation of games with Keys, Gray and ex pros.

PLPass is basically the international feed and nothing else. Sometimes you get to see a post match interview but most of the time it ends abruptly. You can always watch re-runs of games but if a match isn't being played live then there's nothing new to see.

If you follow Man U/Liverpool/Chelsea/Arsenal and are happy with a reasonable picture then BEIN is my recommendation for football as their games are nearly always on at 3pm. If you want to watch other leagues and other sports then BEIN is my recommendation.

If you want to watch every Swansea game then it has to be PLPass.

I've just resigned. Bit miffed that it cost me NZD200 and not the NZD149 that I think I should have been charged as a previous customer. At £2.63 a game I'm not going to complain.

I use SmartDNS to overcome geographic restrictions so that's another USD60 per year, but the bonus of that is it allows me to access any Netflix variant and watch CBS, NBC etc versions of their iplayer. I'm spending around £200 per year on football/netflix and SmartDNS. I work away and can use it in my digs so for me it is ideal. I see every game I want, I watch shows I can't see on Netflix UK and I am up to date with almost every show from America that Sky charge for.

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