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Re: Change of service?

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Originally Posted by greencreeper

It's me - early onset dementia. I am on 2MB. I blame the pans. Streaming definitely wasn't right - could just be the neighbours.

Even if your on 2Mb though, 48Kb/sec is still dire - it should be more like 256Kb/sec thoretical max, in practice with overheads more like 200Kb/sec, so there is still an issue. Have you tried a tracert to news.bbc.co.uk, www.mirror.ac.uk or other UK site? Post results back here.

Re: Change of service?

Tracert is below. The connection here always has been intermittently poor but changing proxy seems to help. There are a couple of silver doofers sticking out the back of modem - the green box is about 1m from the house. A while back Ignition said something about noise. The neighbours are chavs. Caught a couple of them mating the other night. Think they might be related :erm:

C:\WINDOWS\Desktop>tracert www.bbc.co.uk

Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.127]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 7 ms 8 ms 17 ms 10.74.16.1
2 7 ms 7 ms 16 ms leed-t2cam1-a-v110.inet.ntl.com [80.0.54.113]
3 6 ms 28 ms 19 ms leed-t2core-a-ge-wan62.inet.ntl.com [80.0.241.57]
4 10 ms 11 ms 73 ms lee-bb-a-so-120-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.17]
5 21 ms 14 ms 32 ms pop-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.238]
6 16 ms 39 ms 18 ms gfd-bb-a-so-500-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.137]
7 22 ms 18 ms 13 ms gfd-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.6]
8 15 ms 17 ms 17 ms redb-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.138]
9 18 ms 50 ms 19 ms 212.58.238.189
10 20 ms 43 ms 16 ms 212.58.238.133
11 17 ms 14 ms 14 ms www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.224.127]

Trace complete.

Re: Change of service?

Well, at least you've not been paying for a 10mb service all this time so thats at least one good thing. Hope things settle down especially with the neighbours :erm:

I take your point about the pans though, I went out before to the shop in my pj's, won't be long before I don't even realise :erm: See you in the nursing home but don't go wearing my teeth please :D :D

Re: Change of service?

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Originally Posted by Marge

I take your point about the pans though, I went out before to the shop in my pj's, won't be long before I don't even realise :erm: See you in the nursing home but don't go wearing my teeth please :D :D

They'd probably stick me in one of your dresses :erm: :D

Re: Change of service?

It's still crap. Just tried watching a few classic snooker clips and I hear the balls potting before I see them potted :spin: Spend half the time looking at "communicating". Just a joke. Changing proxies makes no difference. Streaming radio is awful - keeps cutting out and then sounds like the orchestra are in the bath. Have to close the player and start again.
What's the point, other than to make money a la Dyson, in offering fast broadband if you can't use it :confused: