Here we go...Part Three.
Thought I would try out my new ADSL router today and even though the line is not due for activation until tommorow I was pleased to find it works already!
To be honest I'm surprised it works at all, there are 4 phones and miles of cheapo focus diy extensions in my house plus when the bt eng reconnected me, he had to fix THREE breaks between my house and the exchange, two of them required digging the pavement up....imagine that with ntl?????
Anyway, it works. Plugged in the super cheapo Origo router, pasted in my cust details from f2s and bang, off it went. RDHW's test shows a steady 490Kbps which worried me at first having been used to ntl 1meg. However, the user experience is fantastic! It FEELS three times faster than my old setup, pages pop up almost instantly just like on my leased line at work. I guess it's the total lack of proxies and caches that does it.
Whatever it is, it's bloody good. I pinged a few sites on my NTL 1meg and was getting 70-90 ms to the likes of
www.theregister.co.uk over 4 or 5 attempts. The f2s ADSL is giving me 14-20 ms to the same sites...fantastic.
So, overall, full marks to freedom2surf SO FAR.
watch this space though!! I can't half moan
Terry
tkiely@f2s.com