600K Upgrade

[John S]

Hi,
When asking about the Cwmbwrla router which I was on I didnt give my connector?USB address as asked so here it is.
My USB address USB CM 351000
My Ethernet Adapter address 00-D0-59-F4-D3-A9

I am currently using USB not the Ethernet card as I changed back last year.

John.

[John S]

Hi Paul,
Thanks for that which means that your connection is up to 20% faster than mine and seems reliable as well.

Joihn.

[threadbare]

Originally Posted by John S

I can assure you that the service is most certainly not up to 4 times faster which is what NTL advertise.
Can you tell me about the status of the Cwmbwrla router.
I did some tests which varied from 520k to 620k when the connection seemed to be reliable but overall it seemed little faster than 150k and never froze. So if that continues to be my experience then I shall downgrade.
Speed tests to my mind are unrealistic and do not reflect real surfing speeds, NTL reccommend one and not another.
There was no problem before I upgraded now Email is half the speed it was last month, where is the test for that. What is the speed when the system slows down freezes and ends the test.
As I said I have no problem logging on but sometimes things slow down to a crawl so I will do a a series of tests at different times of day for the next few days.

John.

where do ntl advertise 4 times the speed? according to their adverts 150K bb is nearly 3x faster than standard dial-up Internet not 4...???

600K being 10 times faster blah blah blah

upgrading your speed is not going to cause your speed to decrease - an certainly wont suddenly overload the ubr. if there is an oversubscription issue then you would have had problems on 150k too.

any news monkeybreath?

[John S]

I upgraded from 150k to 600k.
The Cwmbwrla router has had all sorts of problems oversubscription etc and I am waiting to see if it has changed.

John.

[maverick]

there are no over subscription problems with cwmbwrla at present,there may have been about 6 months ago but no probs there now.

[Chris W]

Originally Posted by threadbare

any news monkeybreath?

John S didn't post his mac address until i finished work, so i will have a look at it in work tomorrow and then update you all then.

Chris

Originally Posted by John S

...I am currently using USB not the Ethernet card as I changed back last year.

John.

Why did you change back to USB from Ethernet?
Have you tried your Ethernet connection again recently to see if you get any improvement over USB?

Had you ever run any kind of internet optimizer program before you upgraded to 600k? If so, it could have changed some settings on your pc (such as RWIN) which may be throttling your 600k speed.

It may be worth going here & checking your settings with tweak tester II:-
http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks

It will tell you if your RWIN is set correctly for your particular connection speed.