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| Thread ID: 120280 | 2011-09-01 11:57:00 | 6 months with broken internet and Im told Go to someone else? | Chilling_Silence (9) | PC World Chat |
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| 1228229 | 2011-09-09 02:22:00 | Good to hear it seems to be sorted, Ive had a pretty good run myself for the most part but I have had a couple of bad experiences along the way. My broadband story: Original broadband ADSL1 on Nokia M10 (still have this bad boy, giant beige box slow as hell and twice as stable) using a 128/128 flat rate plan for games :) Upgraded to full speed down and was only getting 2 Mb so I got a 2nd hand 4 port Dlink which upped it to 3Mb at first, then over time went slowly back down to around 1.5Mb Connection started randomly dropping and reconnecting at different speeds, 1 time at 64kbps (lol, the theoretical minimum speed of dsl) Reported a fault, tech came out, tried to convince me that using 2 pc's and a switch was causing the low speed, he replaces the splitter and leaves. As he's driving out the gate I report the fault again. Next day another tech comes out, this one I recognise (I work in the industry for a rival company) after about half an hour he's found a faulty connection down the street and I'm back over 2M and stable. Cabinetisation hits my street and my speed rockets up to 8M and stays there (DLink is responsible, the modems won't sink over 8M on ADSL2+ despite supposedly supporting it which is why telecom dumped them) I sign up for 2 years to get a free wireless router,thompson turns up and my speed goes up to 16M, great! but then the random disconnects start... Research indicates Thompson routers may have overheating problems, especially if the wireless is on. supposedly standing it on edge can help. Disconnects continue averaging 2-3 a month which I could live with except the router wont reconnect without intervention half the time when it happens. My opinion is the router is crap, I look for a new one. I buy a 2nd hand linksys WAG160N from a guy at work, still connect at 16M but it's now much more stable. I've since read Chills blog about routers and discover he doesn't think much of the 160N, but I've had mine about 8 months and it's only dropped 2-3 times that I remember. Every now and then I consider getting a better one but as long as it's stable I'll stick with this one. I have the router feeding my GigE swtich with my 2 PC's on it (for fast network transfers) and the flatmate on another port (he can live with 100M :) ) I feed the TivO and the smartphone over WiFi. I can download while gaming no problem, but it seems to screw my flatmate's connection if I do lol, otherwise very happy with how things have been for the last year or so. |
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