Is my B/band rubbish?

[normspanners]

You should really be going in to your modem router and have a look at the specs in there, you need to look for its address 192.168.1.1, is the usual one, for most but is usually on the router itself then you will need your user name and password. look at the specs that will tell you what you are supposed to be getting then you can look at what maybe happening in the house.
The other thing is, are you plugged into the master incoming socket and are you using an extension if you are you need to get rid on the two spare wires in it ( broad band only uses two the other two cause bad line)

 

[normspanners]

Try changing the filter that plugs into your phone socket. They go t*ts up from time to time. It's been the cause of slow broadband a couple of times for me. When I've contacted my broadband provider for support, that's one of the first things they ask me to do.

the filter is only for the phones if you unplug the phones it doesnt need the filter.

 

[normspanners]

I was on standard broad band and the max I was told I could expect to get was 3mbsdown / 250k up I got a netgear dg634 gt and I modified the firmware, and then I could tune the signal to noise myself and I got it to the max available which was 8175kbs 1100kb up
now gone to fibre cab/ copper house but unfortunately cant use the netgear coz it is now vdsl as apposed to adsl and am getting usually 32mbs down with 14ms ping and 2mbs up, not happy about the 2 up coz the lads are gaming.

 

[normspanners]

These are the specs you will see in your router 'ish

DSL synchronization status:
Up
Connection status:
Showtime
WAN IP Address:
******&**
Primary DNS Server:
*********
Secondary DNS Server:
***********

Line Quality


Upstream line rate (kbit/s):
1999
Downstream line rate (kbit/s):
29865
Upstream noise safety coefficient (dB):
15.9
Downstream noise safety coefficient (dB):
4.7
Upstream interleave depth:
1
Downstream interleave depth:
1731
Line standard:
VDSL2
Upstream line attenuation (dB):
7
Downstream line attenuation (dB):
21.6
Upstream output power (dBm):
2.9
Downstream output power (dBm):
12.1
Channel type:
Interleaved
DSL up-time:
8 days 5 hours 22 minutes 6 seconds

 

[johnakay]

not a clue on mine but I'm happy with it. don't do downloads,son's does all that for us..

 

[MrFluffy]

My stats I'm a shade over 3miles from the dslam, with the copper line with loads of repairs where the farmer kept cutting it with his hedge cutters because its not been ran properly, literally its a big bundle of electrical tape in a few places in mid air and I have 30db of noise on the line too. I'm actually suprised it works at all but it does most of the time, and most of them is when the dslam itself has gone wrong or the uplink to the radius servers have been stolen yet again by last mile cable thieves but they cant pull fibre in because we're not scheduled for that until 2025 at the earliest, so they keep putting in yet another 10km run of copper to backhaul the local dslam itself back to the l2s somewhere else :-
ping 77mS
1.78Mbps down,
0.09Mbps up (yes 90k/s, putting the A into adsl...)

Actually its fast enough for what I need it for believe it or not, but I grew up in the bad old days of 1200 baud modems so I'm always aware of how to do things more efficiently rather than getting carried away with bloated gui's and massive downloads.

Mostly comparing broadband speed is a joke, because unless your on dedicated fibre laid by c&w etc back in the day, you are on BT openreach's backhaul and lines anyway. So you might go to a different ISP, but your still going to be on the same cab, hanging off the same dslam, with the same uplink as they are just resellers of the circuit and openreach provide most of the core backbone and infrastructure anyway. You buy internet off bt retail though, not OR, which is supposed to be operated as a seperate company and give equal access to all 3rd parties to the same offers and pricing as BT retail gets under ofcom's equivalence rules. There should have just had a public investment in a public backbone and ran fibre to the premise long before the adsl revolution took hold and kept manky copper as a just workable solution.


I was going to buy satelite dsl from astra connect as a backup for contingency for my dodgy copper line but while sat link is fast if its just web traffic that can be accelerated with caching accelerators, the ping times are in the order of 500ms+ and your back into the dark days of paying for a tiny bandwith cap per month. 3Gb of data allowance was something like 20 quid a month, its cheaper to use 3g and a mobile contract, if we could get 3g at the property with an external antenna that is. WiMax is out too, as we're out of coverage as bringing us into coverage is out of scope as we are serviced by a "working" broadband solution.
I'm going with option c, when my internet falls over, declare it a "cant work on tinternet" day and just pee off into the shed and get away from it all.

 

[migcurious]

ok those of you that have bad results admit it your still on the old style plugs
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NOw that is quality !!!!

 

[migcurious]

Try changing the filter that plugs into your phone socket. They go t*ts up from time to time. It's been the cause of slow broadband a couple of times for me. When I've contacted my broadband provider for support, that's one of the first things they ask me to do.

My speed isn't much better than yours ... maybe just over 2Mbs download ... but then again the last mile of so of my phone line is made up of skipping ropes and squirrel farts.

lol !! (the squirrel farts bit not the bb speeds !!)

 

[Member 66061]

Yes, its rubbish
Im getting infinity fibre optic next month, ill show another test here when i get it

As promised, got my fibre optic now. Both tests were done wireless

 

[ukracer]

Check out my Ookla Speedtest result. What's your speed? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/a/1805474667

 

[normspanners]

I kept telling virgin

YEAH RIGHT... in Kidderminster----------how old was she/he----- 8?? no wonder they didnt understand about fibre

 

[graffian]

Last time I checked I had 36mb/s download. That's BT and not infinity.
I am surprised it's that good, outside we have a twisted together and taped up section of wire;-)
Just checked again. Wasn't long ago they told me I couldn't get the full 2mb cos of the duppies
living in the wires.

 

[rockweasel]

The sad thing is that I'm happy with this.

 

[migcurious]

Last time I checked I had 36mb/s download. That's BT and not infinity.
I am surprised it's that good, outside we have a twisted together and taped up section of wire;-)
Just checked again. Wasn't long ago they told me I couldn't get the full 2mb cos of the duppies
living in the wires.
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That's a very good speed for a non fibre /infinity circuit you must be living in the exchange

 

[skotl]

I've discovered one benefit of the Utah office - do I win the prize?

 

[gaz1]

bogoff show off but thats only at work

 

[rockweasel]

Is your office next door to the internet??

 

[arthur]

700Meg upload, thats hardcore!

 

[WorkshopChris]

I've discovered one benefit of the Utah office - do I win the prize?

At that sort of speed how can you tell how fast it is, your connection may possibly be faster than the server doing the testing.
All i know is it faster than the long copper wire with knots in on this farm connection:-
Ping Download Upload
223 ms 4.13 Mb/s 0.32 Mb/s

 

[slim_boy_fat]

Pretty rubbish up here too..............

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/5253085754