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| 243030 | 2004-06-09 05:59:00 | I've recently got Xtra wireless broadband. I am on the 256 Kbps 2 gig download plan; but, I'm only getting 8 to 16 kBps downloads where Xtra have told me I should expect 28 to 32 kBps (funny how they quote the plan in kbps but downloads actual as kBps). Their technician visited and on his laptop running Win98 he got 25+ KBps. When he tried my laptop it dropped back to around 12 KBps, about as bad as my desktop. He said that there appears to be an issue with XP (which I run on both my machines) and really Xtra's responsibility finishes at the wire that plugs into the PC. This is quite disappointing and annoying too, as I feel that if they know that there is a problem with XP they should be advising potential customers of it or developing a "fix" for the problem. Now, I have a recollection that there is a tweak that one can do with XP to maximise broadband or something, does someone out there know of this (if it exists). |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 243031 | 2004-06-09 06:02:00 | Service packs? How are they connected to your machines? | Growly (6) | ||
| 243032 | 2004-06-09 06:09:00 | >Service packs? How are they connected to your machines? Not quite sure what to say about this one. I'm running XP Pro and I installed SP1. But I use the online update facility from time to time. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 243033 | 2004-06-09 06:12:00 | There is no issue with XP,you have been fudged. However the guy was quite correct in that its not up to the isp to configure your machine. And furthermore there are many webpages that have tips for optimising a adsl connection,Google will have em,l'll look a couple up....But it wont help much if at all. |
metla (154) | ||
| 243034 | 2004-06-09 06:22:00 | Ok maybe not service packs (you're up to date). But how are you connected? |
Growly (6) | ||
| 243035 | 2004-06-09 06:24:00 | Try adding the registry key found on this page (www.nzdsl.co.nz). If that doesn't work you might be looking at a fresh install of windows? |
kiki (762) | ||
| 243036 | 2004-06-09 06:40:00 | doh.....You have a wireless connection and i went on about adsl. Seems my resolve to read people's posts properly needs a bit more effort. |
metla (154) | ||
| 243037 | 2004-06-09 08:17:00 | > Try adding the registry key found on this page. >If that doesn't work you might be looking at a fresh install of windows? Thanks for the help, but it didn't work. Do you really think I have to re-install windows? |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 243038 | 2004-06-09 08:22:00 | >But how are you connected? From a network device port (RJ45) to the wireless modem, then co-axial cable to the aerial on my roof, which aims at the BCL tower on Mt. Egmont. As the connection worked reasonably well for the technicians laptop we assumed the prob must be with my computers, bothof which have identical OS's. |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 243039 | 2004-06-09 10:17:00 | have you done any internet tweaking exspecially rwin mtu tweaks ? have you removed QoS ? |
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