Broadband Speed??

[BaZa®]

If you read all the shit I have been having...........
This is the new contract:

Get broadband and free calls to UK landlines with line rental from AOL Broadband | Catch up online or on the phone, any time day or night



WITHOUT THE £50 payment as he has given me a £50 credit to cover it.

[panheadpete]

BaZa, I read from that: UP TO 8 MEG download speed
Where did the promise of GIGS come from?
Storage? Max monthly useage?
The UP TO bit means ANYTHING up to; ie 0.1 and up...
Cheers,
Pete

[panheadpete]

Ah, I see; up to 50GIG useage allowance per month. Pretty good but nothing at all to do with download speed, sadly
Cheers, Pete
(Or am I just going quietly mad?)

[Hawkeye]

Originally Posted by BaZa ®

Gotta wait another 2-3 weeks for upgrade!

Baza mate seen your problem CARPHONE WAREHOUSE !!!!, they are the biggest shysters around, if they were the only provider/ISP i would go without.
It you get the feeling i dont like them your right...............they screwed me royal a few years back and as far as i am concerned they can got F*** themselves with a ten foot dia oak tree

[BaZa®]

Not getting the aol package now but the line that comes into the house I took the open reach bottom cover off and plugged the ADSL into the TEST socket and got this download. Seems a lot faster now and is improving.

What this in KB's?

New Test.


Download: 1.2Mb

[Tones]

Originally Posted by BaZa ®

Not getting the aol package now but the line that comes into the house I took the open reach bottom cover off and plugged the ADSL into the TEST socket and got this download. Seems a lot faster now and is improving.

What this in KB's?

New Test.


Download: 1.2Mb

To get full speed, the router has to be connected and switched on for a period of at least 4 days. The router should always be connected to the master socket. Then if PC not in the same room, connect with ethernet cable from the router to the PC. Also, other interference can cause the speed to slow, BT now do a thing called an iPlate, (which has a full patent) which speeded my broadband from 2.2 Mb to and average of 5.5 Mb, but is takes about a week to get up to speed.
A Neighbour has AOL and its taken me and him about 4 months to sort his broadband out. Rehashed all the wiring and still problems, in the end threatened to leave as ther customer service is rubbish, they sent a new router and everything is now OK. Funnily did a speed test on this AOL line and it came up as Carphone Warehouse, bit of piggy backing going on.

[BaZa®]

[dodgyloner]

Mine's a little down on the 10mb/512k rated speed today :-

Last Result:
Download Speed: 9888 kbps (1236 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 493 kbps (61.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 33 ms

[Limey_Dave]

[Hawkeye]

Originally Posted by Tones

To get full speed, the router has to be connected and switched on for a period of at least 4 days. The router should always be connected to the master socket. Then if PC not in the same room, connect with ethernet cable from the router to the PC. Also, other interference can cause the speed to slow, BT now do a thing called an iPlate, (which has a full patent) which speeded my broadband from 2.2 Mb to and average of 5.5 Mb, but is takes about a week to get up to speed.
A Neighbour has AOL and its taken me and him about 4 months to sort his broadband out. Rehashed all the wiring and still problems, in the end threatened to leave as ther customer service is rubbish, they sent a new router and everything is now OK. Funnily did a speed test on this AOL line and it came up as Carphone Warehouse, bit of piggy backing going on.

I have never heard of a router getting up to speed before, thats a new one on me. Don't forget the filters on ADSL lines they are normally supplied by your ISP.

A friend of mine is a BT engineer and he says that all ADSL lines run on the back of BT lines. They are in the same exchange as well, but in seperate room that are 'not' air conditioned. Depending on the heat output this may have some effect on service.
I will ask him about the 'iplate' though. Funnily enough he is p***ed off with his BT connection, he has an 8mb connection but can only get 5mb at best.