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buckleb · 11-10-2009, 00:12

Hi all,

I had my broadband upgraded from 20mb to 50mb yesterday (Friday) and it hasn't really performed well at all. My 20mb was always rock solid (I read that a lot) but the 50mb fluctuates between 0 and 35mb with the occasional spike to 48mb or so. It also stalls on some downloads.

I spent a fair amount of time yesterday pinging the bbc, doing traceroutes and downloading files for the newsgroup support team, but by the time I'd finished that I had some sort of stabilty and so didn't see the point in continuing.

Sadly it didn't last and I've had wildly fluctuating speeds again today.

I've seen people have posted their levels, and so here are mine. Do they look OK? I have an attenuator (FAT-3db) on the back of my modem that was attached to my old one too.

[img]Download Failed (1)[/img]

Thanks in advance.

I forgot to mention that I can't complete the speedtest at http://www.vmspeed.com/ as it stalls before the download part finishes.

11-10-2009, 00:12	#1
buckleb Inactive Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Sawbridgeworth Services: Vivid 200 Tivo 500GB Posts: 366	New 50mb install - fluctuating speeds Hi all, I had my broadband upgraded from 20mb to 50mb yesterday (Friday) and it hasn't really performed well at all. My 20mb was always rock solid (I read that a lot) but the 50mb fluctuates between 0 and 35mb with the occasional spike to 48mb or so. It also stalls on some downloads. I spent a fair amount of time yesterday pinging the bbc, doing traceroutes and downloading files for the newsgroup support team, but by the time I'd finished that I had some sort of stabilty and so didn't see the point in continuing. Sadly it didn't last and I've had wildly fluctuating speeds again today. I've seen people have posted their levels, and so here are mine. Do they look OK? I have an attenuator (FAT-3db) on the back of my modem that was attached to my old one too. [img]Download Failed (1)[/img] Thanks in advance. I forgot to mention that I can't complete the speedtest at http://www.vmspeed.com/ as it stalls before the download part finishes.