Re: SE London very slow
 

The road is long, the forest deep and I have miles to go before I sleep.....or at least till after FNG tonight :D

Re: SE London very slow
 

:bigcry::bigcry::bigcry: It's Liz's birthday, we're going out for the night but if I know FNG, you'll still be on when I get home, slightly worse for wear, see ya later :tu:

Re: SE London very slow
 

Rammy... seems like i'm having the same probs as you :(

Can you lemme know how it goes please mate?

Paul - you had this problem too? Seems to be a London-wide thing.

I'm on 10 meg, via Samsung STB. 3meg was rock solid, now its averaging between 0.5mbps & 2mbps. Transfer rate occaisonally spikes at 500k/s+ but always with an average transfer rate less than 2mbps...

Re: SE London very slow
 

I did a full reformat and installed xp pro 64bit. Connection is definitely faster but still not really what I should be getting......
Modem install is tomorrow-I persuaded them to do this for free :) . I do hope I have a working connection/router afterwards.
Anything I should watch out for/make sure the engineers do?

Re: SE London very slow
 

I'm having a modem installed today as well. I'll be watching them every second of the way as I don't want them looking in to private info on my PC. In fact, I'm hoping they won't have to touch it apart from plugging in a cable.

As we live relatively close geographically, I half expect to get the same engineers as you do. If they turn up early at your place, please don't delay them :D

Re: SE London very slow
 

They won't touch your PC, they will expect you to sort out that side of it, all they will do is install the modem & check the levels :)

<edit> don't think Watford & South London will share the same installation crew, though ;)

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Thanks for the info homealone. Just out of curiosity on location, I'll ask the engineer the question. :)

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Well I now have a SACM and these are my speeds:

:cool: :)

Now to get my router connected :disturbd:

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Right, router in the loop:

.....has slowed things down......about twice as fast as my stb but slower than a SACM on it's own nevertheless.
I have a netgear wgr614 (version 1) ....anyone got any ideas? :confused:

Re: SE London very slow
 

Sorry Ramrod, no idea personally. I sure someone will come up with something.

Just got my ntl 250 SACM connected and working fine at present. However, it would of been nice if I had had PIN number generated but it only took 10 mins on the phone to sort out. Seems I've no got double the amount of email addressess and two webspaces :D

Ramrod, you're gonna hate me for this. Here is my current connection speed. Tried 10 times and it only varied by 0.2 at most.

Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:17:20 UTC

1st 512K took 438 ms = 1169 KB/sec, approx 9633 Kbps, 9.41 Mbps
2nd 512K took 437 ms = 1171.6 KB/sec, approx 9654 Kbps, 9.43 Mbps
3rd 512K took 422 ms = 1213.3 KB/sec, approx 9998 Kbps, 9.76 Mbps
4th 512K took 438 ms = 1169 KB/sec, approx 9633 Kbps, 9.41 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 9730 Kbps, 9.5 Mbps

You wouldn't beleive the current smile I have on my face :D

Re: SE London very slow
 

I'm not unhappy with my speeds either......just got to sort out the router now......are you on a router?

Re: SE London very slow
 

No, straight connection, which is why I'm probably getting the speeds I am. Best of luck with your problem sorry I can't help. :)

Re: SE London very slow
 

Ramrod, I don't have any experience with wireless routers, but you won't always get the speed from them you need for a 10Mb connection. There are different wireless standards which have different speeds (some are fast enough; some aren't), if you're connecting the wireless adapters with USB, that may also slow things down, and also interference with the signals may affect matters.

Might be a good idea to try a PC connected to the router via ethernet rather than wireless and see what speed you get then. If you get a good speed, you know the problem is with your wireless connection; if you get a poor speed, it's most likely to be with your router settings or the connection between router and modem.

Re: SE London very slow
 

Cheers m8, I'm connected to the router via ethernet (the wireless is for the laptops etc.)
The connection status on xp says 100.0 Mbps so it should be able to connect my pc at a decent speed.

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It's not that much of a problem....I'm getting twice the speed I was :)

Re: SE London very slow
 

Sorry, Rammie - here's your problem (from the specifications in the netgear wgr614 online manual) -

Interface Specifications
LAN:
10BASE-T or 100BASE-Tx, RJ-45
WAN:
10BASE-T, RJ-45

The WAN port is only 10Mbs. Unfortunately, this isn't fast enough to support a 10Mb internet connection. You need a router with a 10/100 Mb WAN port. So, unfortunately, the speeds you're seeing are about what you should expect with that router. :-(

Re: SE London very slow
 

:cool: :D

Set WAN to 100 (from 10) oops: