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Originally Posted by MiGhTy_uK
ok the usb cable isnt blue, and i just got ma modem changed still the same, ive got xp home edition installed,
and popper u want me to wot with da cd? didnt get it sorry.
And its been slow since 3 weeks now. And im sure many got the same problem.. And in most cases the blue internet wire is better thn usb cable thts wot the engineer told me once..
PS: thanks for telling me bout caps = shouting, sorry bout that.
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its alright, everyone has to learn somthing new everyday, and ntl do make you want to shout at them now and then LOL.
right, so we know now that your on a CM, so as Druchii pointed out, it does seem that ntl have put you on the lowest broadband cap of 1 mbit rather than your highest 10mbit, it seems even more likely as you say your uploading rate has really slowed down.
do as Druchii said and check your modem settings
http://192.168.100.1
log in a
root with a pass of
root and see what its set for
in my case its set for the 4mbit down/400 k up
Network Access : Allowed
Maximum Downstream Data Rate : 4096000
Maximum Upstream Data Rate : 400000
Maximum Upstream Channel Burst : 1600
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if infact you find after looking at the above modem page that they have placed you on the lowest 1mbit BB cap, and you are saying you should be on the highest 10mbit or even the 4mbit package then you need to tell them to move you over before you try the linux livecd below.
if infact it turnes out your modem is currently set for the 10mbit cap and you are still getting these slow up/down speeds, then (assuming again that you have a CD or DVD burner) get yourself a small livecd that you can burn and boot in your machine and compare the speeds your getting with your installed OS and the clean standard linux.
thats to prove to yourself that infact its the ntl end thats wrong rather than some bad OS install or setting/app thats messing up your speeds.
if it turns out your getting far better up/down speeds when booting the livecd, (a livecd will not change anything on your installed OS unless you tell it to so its a safe testing tool) then we can then begin to work out whats installed things slowing it down and remove it, such as the zone alarm firewall thats proven to slow many ntl peoples machines down.
DSL (Damn Small Linux) is as good a livecd as any so go here
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/download.html
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...small/current/
and download this
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/...1-syslinux.iso
or here if that url isnt working (for me its not right now)
this one is,
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsma...1-syslinux.iso
burn it in your CD or DVD burner, set your PC bios to boot the cd and try surfing the net and downloading/uploading stuff and compare to your installed OS speed to see if it changes in a large way.
if the readers wanting to try this but dont have a CD or DVD burner, go buy yourself one LOL, or you could load the DSL(Damn Small Linux) into the free QEMU emulator inside windows and try it there, while not ideal, it works.
it might be interesting to see peoples tests results in all the 3 ways, livecd boot, qemu boot and windows boot testing if anyone bothers to try all 3 options sometime.
http://www.h7.dion.ne.jp/~qemu-win/
copy the dsl-3.0.1-syslinux.iso to the same dir as you unpack the qemu, make a new test.bat file with this single line
qemu.exe -L . -m 128 -cdrom dsl-3.0.1-syslinux.iso -soundhw all -localtime
save it and click it to start the DSL inside the emulator.
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Originally Posted by Pea-Pod
Is anybody's connection really slow in the Manchester area this Saturday morning?
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fine for me in wythenshawe on ntl250 4mbit
http://ftp.heanet.ie/mirrors/damnsma...1-syslinux.iso
averaging 456KB/s