Thread: At my wits end
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Old 28-04-2007, 15:33   #12
Kard
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Re: At my wits end

Still no dice for my connection, I was told the hardware in my area would be upgraded on 26th April but nothing has changed. To compound things further, CS in India have started to transfer my calls internally which always results in them hanging up on me.

A snippet from pinging www.bbc.co.uk;
Quote:
Ping statistics for 212.58.224.35:
Packets: Sent = 50, Received = 39, Lost = 11 (22% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 15ms, Maximum = 152ms, Average = 53ms
and yet another speed test;
Quote:
Sat, 28 Apr 2007 15:03:13 UTC

1st 512K took 40750 ms = 12.6 KB/sec, approx 104 Kbps, 0.1 Mbps
2nd 512K took 24422 ms = 21 KB/sec, approx 173 Kbps, 0.17 Mbps
3rd 512K took 14156 ms = 36.2 KB/sec, approx 298 Kbps, 0.29 Mbps
4th 512K took 16578 ms = 30.9 KB/sec, approx 255 Kbps, 0.25 Mbps

Overall Average Speed = approx 208 Kbps, 0.2 Mbps
It's rapidly aproaching 1 year since I first reported this fault, I think I shall celebrate the anniversary with a "burning of the modem" party
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