what was that site where you could test your broadband speed?

[REDLAND]

9255 download

486KB upload

Is that good? I am supposed to have 20MG broadband

Not yet Dave, the Brighton area is supposed to be before the end of June

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/existingcustomers/faster/schedule.html

 

[wehatepalace]

This is mine what does it mean

 

[Trufflehound]

Better than I expected...

 

[Joey Jo Jo Jr. Shabadoo]

Thats pretty good dave. Unless you live right next to the BT exchanged then it will never be a full 20Mb broadband but over 9Mb is pretty good anyway.

If he is on Virgin Media 20meg service then its rubbish. However as I don't think Brighton has been upgraded yet its actually pretty good and near enough max for the 10meg service he will be on.

It has nothing to do with distance from exchange as that only applies to ADSL lines, I am on BT's 8 meg max service but as I am so far from the exchange I can get around 3 tops, last night I was struggling to get anywhere near 1meg. Virgin is looking more and more appealing.

 

[Superphil]

Jesus, mine comes out as 905 on download and 214 on upload.

Anyone know why it's so low? I do live in the countryside I suppose, so are those speeds bad?

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Bloody slow if you ask me.

 

[seven stands]

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on virgin bband

 

[Paul Reids Sock]

thats mine, duno if its any good

 

[Cian]

Turn it off then back on again

Seriously though when was the last time you rebooted your router?

You should never need to restart your router - I've had my (rarely used) ADSL router turned on since the last power cut (November or so...) and its still working fine. If the speed is increasing after restarting it, its either faulty or the ISP have some seriously f***ed speed throttling.

 

[Marc]

You should never need to restart your router - I've had my (rarely used) ADSL router turned on since the last power cut (November or so...) and its still working fine. If the speed is increasing after restarting it, its either faulty or the ISP have some seriously f***ed speed throttling.

ACTUALLY some routers might blimp through slight electricity slumps, EVEN those on power saving plug things (like mine is). This sometimes causes them to start acting FUNKY so a restart is needed.

and before you say so YES we have had different routers AND power saving plug things and a couple acted this way.

in your GEEKFACE Myob

 

[Braders]

 

[Frutos]

 

[Cian]

ACTUALLY some routers might blimp through slight electricity slumps, EVEN those on power saving plug things (like mine is). This sometimes causes them to start acting FUNKY so a restart is needed.

and before you say so YES we have had different routers AND power saving plug things and a couple acted this way.

in your GEEKFACE Myob

Yes, some routers. SHIT routers. Proper ones have protection circuits.

 

[Starry]

So shouldn't I ever cut the power to our router? I pull the cord out the back of it every night when I switch the computer etc off, I thought I was meant to?

 

[Withdean Wanderer]

Always thought it was slow uploading

 

[Cian]

So shouldn't I ever cut the power to our router? I pull the cord out the back of it every night when I switch the computer etc off, I thought I was meant to?

Its unlikely to cause it any harm. Its definately not going to do it any good.

If you've a BT Home Hub, or use the internet through an old NTL cable box, or so on - don't unplug it at night, thats when they get their software updates. As do Sky boxes, and most modern cable boxes, and Freeview boxes, and so on.

 

[Starry]

Ah OK .thanks. I didn't know that, just assumed I should unplug it all the time.

We have a cable modem and the router and I have been turning them off completely every night.

 

[Lawro's Lip]

BT. Seems slow to me