Internet connection speed discussion/moan thread.

[mdhay]

Hold on, how can you have THAT!??! I don't have that.

(Welcome to the forum, btw. )

[DeepMix]

ok here is mine lol



and yes is as crap as it looks, at least my ping isnt that bad, but the velocity sucks.. too bad its really expensive to have a nice speed here..

[F.E.I.S.A.R]

Singapore
vs
Penang

Which one's better?

[RedScar]

K, I have an issue where my modem loses sync and I get DC'd. They have checked the lines inside, outside and on the street and they all check out. I'm on DSL and have filters on all the phone lines yet they refuse to believe that the problem is somewhere at the neighborhood box. What can I do to prove this to them? This constant DC'ing randomly has happened 4 days in a row now and its making me angrier then it should be.

[yeldar2097]

I'd like an opinion on that as well. It's an ongoing problem at my house: every so often
(sometimes once a week, sometimes several times a day) both internet lines in my house
will go completely dead for up to 10 mins for no apparent reason.

Ok, it's not a long period of downtime, but it's very frustrating nonetheless

[mdhay]

Same here, It only seems to happen when my PS3 is switched off.
Used to blame it on the ISP, but that would be a cliché for AOL.

[Darkdrium777]

You threaten them to switch companies if they don't fix their hardware to give you the service you pay them for.
Or something similar.
Works with Bell Sympatico.

[RedScar]

Well my ISP is Distributel, who uses Bell's lines. We are no longer undercontract and can leave at anytime, but bell and rogers are double the price and require contracts so that's not gonna happen.

[rdmx]

Have you tried a different modem?
Have you tried doing an isolation test?

[RedScar]

yes and yes, we have literally done every test possible and thus by process of elmination we know that the prob is at the box in the neibourhood. However, because my ISP doesn't own the lines (bell does) they can't touch it, and can only take out a ticket with BELL. Bell doesn't give a damn because we aren't their customer, it took 2 1/2 years to even get them to come to the door and talk to us.

[Woopzilla]

Has anyone recently received a free upgrade from BT out of the blue without any notice? I'm downloading at 1.1MB/s and uploading 80mb vids in 10 minutes to youtube. o_O

Not that I'm complaining... I just hope they aren't going to come and say "Oops, you're only paying for 8mbit and not 14mbit, we'll throttle your connection accordingly."

[amplificated]

Some of the speeds I'm getting told I'm having are higher than the theoretical max for my plan (30Mb/1Mb). Maybe the time has come where ISP's around the world are feeling so good about their networks that they've upgraded their customers' bandwidth by 5-10% or so, because they're so nice. <.<.

[Woopzilla]

I hope that's the case.

I've had an increase of like 60%. I've just checked and it's reporting that I'm connected at 13,098kbps with an upstream of 1,215kbps!

[SaturnReturn]

I had an improvement from BT a while back. Maybe it was a year ago or something. The improvement was more modest though, say around 4Mb/s download to around 6Mb/s download. As they're rolling out the fibre I guess it's possible they've upgraded a lot of their old equipment too, leading to an improvement for all customers...maybe?

[Darkdrium777]

I'm not with BT but I did receive the free upgrade from Bell when they pushed fiber in my area. It was quite a good upgrade too, from less than 1MB/s to what you saw now (6MB/s.)

[OBH]

I hate Orange, I hate them so much.




No idea why it changes so much, and this is the time of day when it should be fastest apparently.
god damn charge me for 6 months just to give me this sh*tty connection *grumble, grumble, winge, complain, grumble*

If i wasnt the most broadband-naive man alive id do something about this. My normal method of fixing electrical equipment by kicking and shouting at it doesnt seem to be working.

[SaturnReturn]

Is it the ping you don't like OBH, or the actual download and upload speeds? This looks pretty similar to my old connection. It's actually better in all except ping, which depends largely on where you are in relation to the server, so in general it's about even. The upload speed is rubbish for uploading videos etc., but I don't think you'll get a download speed better than that from many sources anyway, so not much of an issue. I'm definitely not seeing any real advantage to my new 20 Mb/s d/l connection, but upload speed is vastly improved and would make the world of difference if I was still making videos for youtube.

[LurifaxFlux]

Mmm, yeah I can't really complain

Doesn't help one tiny bit with the lag ramming though.

[zeeZ]

I guess it's rare that you actually get what you're paying for?



Well lag ramming also is part of your host's connection, could even be their/your PS3 responsible for sudden hiccups

[yeldar2097]

no way!!