Internet Speed Test

[Puratech]

Originally Posted by LippoW

Seems you UK users have very superb downlinks but your uplinks kinda suck.

Well, you only need about 100 kbps and a low ping to play online games properly.

Im a bit out of date with it, but its mainly down to it being residential and asymetric. The idea is that for most users only download bandwidth is important, like you say the uploads enough for gaming, voice/video coms and sending stuff like email. Theyre obsessed with contention ratios here though, that they can basically sell the same network bandwidth over and over because most people dont use much of their bandwidth much of the time. Equally they dont want people hosting, and for a while it was hard to get static IPs etc. Business users can get a higher upload speed, but i think they were reluctant to lose out on lease line sales/rental to broadband. (When i say they im mostly referring to BT wholesale/openreach).

[Lexxys]

Originally Posted by Mars

how long is the lead from the router to the master socket? and have you tried changing
the microfilter?

10 meter lead as the master socket is an another room and i set up the lead when i was using a plug in modem before i got the wireless enabled router im using now.

Originally Posted by Puratech

Simply to rule out the possibility, plugging the router into the phone socket on a short cable and trying alternate microfilter (most times you get at least 2), then check the connection speed youre connected (we dont even know that atm) or the throughput on speedtest.net or similar.

Just tried connecting the router directly to the main phone socket via another microfilter and used one of the wireless connecters from the other PCs to do a retest and got almost the same result.

[Mars]

Originally Posted by meow

do they need changing ? mines bound to be clogged with cat hair by now ... where do I find it ?

inside ur cheezburger