Well i've spoken to support who were useless. They asked me to run Robin Walkers test, the first time I did it, it showed I was running at 1mb speeds (I'm on 2mb broadband), as I explained to him, yesterday everything was fine. He made me reboot into safe mode with networking to run the same test, this time it showed 2mb service, but as I tried to explain, sometimes it is showing 1mb speeds, sometimes its showing 2mb speeds no matter if im in Safe mode or not. I even told him its doing the same on my Mac machine and that its not the computer!
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Bit more info for anyone looking into it - if i download something from FTP, for a few seconds ill only get 1/2/3 KB's - then it'll go to the full 200kbs for the rest of the time.
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Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
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C:\Documents and Settings\Byron Hinson>ping
www.nthellworld.co.uk
Pinging nthellworld.co.uk [66.199.235.18] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 66.199.235.18:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
C:\Documents and Settings\Byron Hinson>ping
www.cableforum.co.uk
Pinging cableforum.co.uk [66.199.235.18] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Request timed out.
Ping statistics for 66.199.235.18:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
C:\Documents and Settings\Byron Hinson>
Ping statistics for 66.199.235.18:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 0, Lost = 4 (100% loss),
C:\Documents and Settings\Byron Hinson>ping bbc.co.uk
Pinging bbc.co.uk [212.58.224.131] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=15ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=35ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Reply from 212.58.224.131: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=117
Ping statistics for 212.58.224.131:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 14ms, Maximum = 35ms, Average = 19ms
C:\Documents and Settings\Byron Hinson>ping news.bbc.co.uk
Pinging newswww.bbc.net.uk [212.58.226.44] with 32 bytes of data:
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.58.226.44: bytes=32 time=13ms TTL=54
Reply from 212.58.226.44: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=54
Reply from 212.58.226.44: bytes=32 time=14ms TTL=54
Ping statistics for 212.58.226.44:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 13ms, Maximum = 14ms, Average = 13ms