Post by Dave on Jul 25, 2009 18:36:47 GMT
Well broadband blues is what I have been suffering from for far to long, but that is about to change on the 4th August.
We went onto broadband as soon as it was avalable, having been on AOL before on dial-up, we stuck with AOL. Our first service was only 512 kbps and we then moved up to a 1mbps. It sure seemed fast but when 2mbps came out we moved up again.
As we were the only ones around here that had a wireless network setup and so few were on broadband, it really was a good service. Things started to change when we moved up to the 8mbps service and more people around us got broadband and home wireless networks.
The thing is phone lines were never made to carry both the voice call and broadband and we started seeing we were suffering from disconnects at busy times. They were only for a second, but the modem router then only synced at a much slower rate, reducing our broadband speed.
I'm sure most never check their sync speeds, I do about four or five times a day now and if its low, I will reboot the modem router to try and get a better sync speed.
These days if you get a higher sync speed, then you will get the faster speeds, before as soon as you got a low sync speed, your broadband speed went right down, it still does. Only before you had to sync at the new higher speed for three days, before your speed increased. Now it goes up to the higher speed as soon as your sync speed is higher.
But for some time now the disconnects have got worse and worse, when the phone rings it disconnects and reconnects while the call is in progress, only at a quarter of the sync speed it was.
I have spent so much time making sure the problem is not with my equipment, rangeing from buying the very best adsl filters, to removing my Dec phone and using an old analogue one. The fault is clearly at the exchange or on the line. Only a line test does not really show up the problem and if you call out BT, all they do is stick the phone only into the test socket behind the plate on the box. Tell you its fine and then demand £120 from you.
After so many calls and getting nowhere I had enough and now the phone and the broadband will be separate. I have to keep the BT line for now, but my broadband will be with Virgin on a fibre optic cable.
having broadband on a phone line means the further away from the exchange you are, the slower speeds you will get. You may be paying for a 8mbps service, but only be getting 4mbps. This is not the case on a fibre optic cable service and Virgin are offering speeds up to 50mbps.
BT are planning to have a fibre optic cable service running by around the year 2012, with top speeds around 40 to 60 mbps, while virgin are planning to go up to speeds as high as 150 mbps. That scary and it might mean you will download a track even before its finished being made. ;D
We went onto broadband as soon as it was avalable, having been on AOL before on dial-up, we stuck with AOL. Our first service was only 512 kbps and we then moved up to a 1mbps. It sure seemed fast but when 2mbps came out we moved up again.
As we were the only ones around here that had a wireless network setup and so few were on broadband, it really was a good service. Things started to change when we moved up to the 8mbps service and more people around us got broadband and home wireless networks.
The thing is phone lines were never made to carry both the voice call and broadband and we started seeing we were suffering from disconnects at busy times. They were only for a second, but the modem router then only synced at a much slower rate, reducing our broadband speed.
I'm sure most never check their sync speeds, I do about four or five times a day now and if its low, I will reboot the modem router to try and get a better sync speed.
These days if you get a higher sync speed, then you will get the faster speeds, before as soon as you got a low sync speed, your broadband speed went right down, it still does. Only before you had to sync at the new higher speed for three days, before your speed increased. Now it goes up to the higher speed as soon as your sync speed is higher.
But for some time now the disconnects have got worse and worse, when the phone rings it disconnects and reconnects while the call is in progress, only at a quarter of the sync speed it was.
I have spent so much time making sure the problem is not with my equipment, rangeing from buying the very best adsl filters, to removing my Dec phone and using an old analogue one. The fault is clearly at the exchange or on the line. Only a line test does not really show up the problem and if you call out BT, all they do is stick the phone only into the test socket behind the plate on the box. Tell you its fine and then demand £120 from you.
After so many calls and getting nowhere I had enough and now the phone and the broadband will be separate. I have to keep the BT line for now, but my broadband will be with Virgin on a fibre optic cable.
having broadband on a phone line means the further away from the exchange you are, the slower speeds you will get. You may be paying for a 8mbps service, but only be getting 4mbps. This is not the case on a fibre optic cable service and Virgin are offering speeds up to 50mbps.
BT are planning to have a fibre optic cable service running by around the year 2012, with top speeds around 40 to 60 mbps, while virgin are planning to go up to speeds as high as 150 mbps. That scary and it might mean you will download a track even before its finished being made. ;D
My Broadband is pathetically slow today and in this day and age it pisses me off that we struggle to obtain a service that is even 10% as efficient as some countries.
) and I don't get these huge hold ups when I'm on the net at four o'clock in the morning.