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Geezee · 16-10-2009, 19:15

Hi,

first post here. Basically I just moved into a house with 6 mates up in manchester and we decided to get the 20mb package.
I had always been under the impression that the advantage of cable internet was actually getting the speeds promised as opposed to whatever a normal line could take.

Yesterday the engineer came to install it, I asked him what sort of speeds to except with 7 people and he said I would be getting around 15ish when everyone was on. Ran a test on speedtest.net and got a nice 18meg out of it but since then it has just gotten slower and slower. Was running at less than a meg last night, this morning it was up to about 8-12meg and then dropped slowly back to about 1meg.

I even tried running a test with just my pc connected to the modem, bypassing the router but the speeds were just as bad.

Any ideas? We dont want to be paying for 20mb and getting a fraction of that all the time.
cheers in advance,
Gab

16-10-2009, 19:15	#1
Geezee Inactive Join Date: Oct 2009 Posts: 5	Help with 20mb connection Hi, first post here. Basically I just moved into a house with 6 mates up in manchester and we decided to get the 20mb package. I had always been under the impression that the advantage of cable internet was actually getting the speeds promised as opposed to whatever a normal line could take. Yesterday the engineer came to install it, I asked him what sort of speeds to except with 7 people and he said I would be getting around 15ish when everyone was on. Ran a test on speedtest.net and got a nice 18meg out of it but since then it has just gotten slower and slower. Was running at less than a meg last night, this morning it was up to about 8-12meg and then dropped slowly back to about 1meg. I even tried running a test with just my pc connected to the modem, bypassing the router but the speeds were just as bad. Any ideas? We dont want to be paying for 20mb and getting a fraction of that all the time. cheers in advance, Gab