slow broadband

mattmoo1974 · Sep 14, 2011

Contentions ratio? Do you power download? after 5 til about 9 you ll get worse speeds.
Get a wireless router? and wireless card? Flee bay is your friend at times

Facefart Leeches massive amounts of bandwidth mate, Specaily when shes on Bejelewed :S

brucelee · Sep 15, 2011

HI tel change your ISP get virgin broadband fastest there is mrs on bejewelled and a forum while i on here and surfing the net
or try to clear all your temporary internet files

computers who needs em

ian.settle1 · Sep 15, 2011

telectrix said:
was fine till her indoors started on faceache.

Ban her from using it :73:

telectrix · Sep 15, 2011

brucelee said:
HI tel change your ISP get virgin broadband fastest there is mrs on bejewelled and a forum while i on here and surfing the net
or try to clear all your temporary internet files

computers who needs em

find a virgin in cheshire. you must be joking

ian.settle1 · Sep 15, 2011

telectrix said:
find a virgin in cheshire. you must be joking

I did but she wasn't afterwards

telectrix · Sep 15, 2011

must have been under 16 then, you naughty boy.

topquark · Sep 15, 2011

Do as suggested and try (temporarily even) to connect the router to the master socket and see what speed is negotiated. You can find that in the router admin web page. See what it says for upload and download speeds. If it's substantially below the 8M you used to get then bt need to get their arse in gear. If the speed appears to have been negotiated ok, then try a real speed test on a site like thinkbroadband :: UK Broadband Speed Test (you'll need java installed for that).

When I had a problem, turned out they'd split the line we were using for adsl with someone else to add a second phone line for them.

If the speed is alright at the master socket then it's down to the extensions you have installed, time to do a bit of diagnostics.

There are a number of other things that can affect the apparent speed as well such as speed of DNS resolution etc.

You can get a spectrum read out of the signal on the line using the DSL modem Tool (if your modem is supported) available here: DMT (DSL-Modem Tool) (german site but easy enough to understand).