Re: FAO: Andy Hewitt

On Sep 29, 9:00 pm, wildrover.a...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andy Hewitt) wrote:
Mentally Sub-Normal <sarah.j.balf...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Who with?

Er, Eclipse. We switched to their ADSLMax service at roughly the same
time, remember...? ;o) <grin> Sorry, I just assumed you would...My
apologies

Oh! righto. No, I don't remember, but then I don't remember some things
I did only a few minutes ago...... who are you? ;-)

No idea. <checks inside knickers. Marks & Spencer.


Just remember, assumption is the mother of screw-ups :-)

I know (though I've no idea what my sex-life has to do with the price
of haddock ;o) Sorry in one of /those/ moods)


Anyway, back to the plot, yes, Eclipse, they have gone downwhill a bit
lately haven't they.

<..>



Well, it's a little slow browsing tonight (but it is Saturday I
suppose), and online gaming seems to suffer a little (doesn't bother me
personally), but downloads are still super fast - the iWeb one took less
than a minute, including installation.

I was with NTL a few years ago, but never really had any great bother
TBH. The only problems I had were one where the council had cut the
cable into our house, and that caused recurring problems later, and
another where my modem died, and it took me a few days to convince them.

It's definitely not worse than my connection to Eclipse, and in the main
is mostly much better if anything.

Well, I'm currently downloading a 28kB speeds (2.56k/s at the moment).
I've not exceeded my peak quota and the irony of this whole business
is that, if they did decide to cap me at 256k/s, I'd experience a
(theoretical) 20-fold increase in speed! ;o)

My sister's connection (also on Eclipse) has been poor too, but we found
that the router is building up static (recently checked by a nuclear
physicist), and simply rebooting it every so often does the trick.


This router is only a week old (new Linksys to replace the 'old
faithful' Netgear W834G that bit the dust about 2 months ago). I've
just done another speed test now and my downstream is now twice my
upstream, but it's still less than 1Mb. There was a time, not so long
ago, when I was downloading at 850kb/s plus. I remember the 10.4.10
update took around a minute (and it was 60MB, IIRC).
Been trying to get through to technical support since 9:30am Thursday.
I have now given up in disgust as there is only so much of that
dreadful hold muzak I can take before I lose it completely.

I take it you have tried rebooting the router?

Yep. Though, on a slightly different tack, I have noticed that file
transfers (between this 'ere G5 and my parents' Shuttle) have slowed
to a crawl, too. When I first set it up, the transferral of a GB took
around 3.5 minutes - now it takes around 20, which is significantly
slower than the old Netgear (which was only 54Mb/s this is
theoretically capable of 300). I'm currently transferring a 800MB test
file between them and it's only transferred 200MB in 8 minutes. If
anyone knows where I should be looking (I can't see anything untoward
in the router settings) then please let me know.

Can't test 'em the other way as the Shuttle refuses to acknowledge the
G5's existence.

I'll see how the changeover on my phone calls goes though.

Dad won't change phone suppliers - he's wedded to BT.

I still pay line rental to BT, just BB and calls to Virgin.

Even so...

Sarah
(off to bed)
--
Andy Hewitt
<http://web.mac.com/andrewhewitt1/>


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