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| Thread ID: 80365 | 2007-06-20 07:08:00 | dial up so slow | hammer (1735) | Press F1 |
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| 560939 | 2007-06-20 07:08:00 | my friend cannot get adsl (purchased and installed no joy) living rural.. 10kms from town on main road so has gone back to dial up.. it is really painful at their place..14 minutes to get a page... then half the time it doesnt work or disconnects before we have it...usually about 14mbps (think i got the letters right) telecom insists it is the computer that is slow not their line but i dont know what to do to hurry it up or stop conflicts that make it cut out...telecom insists you are at the pc when they help you but it is so slow and telecom are so slow i think it would require more whiskey than my body could handle to complete this mission... with so much spam about nowdays it is really impossible to get email.. vodems dont work on west coast apparently... the computer is really clean and we can get the processes running down to about 13 so what else would i look at to try and get it to go a lttle faster... trying to do anything is really frustrating |
hammer (1735) | ||
| 560940 | 2007-06-20 07:12:00 | so has gone back to dial up.. it is really painful at their place..14 minutes to get a page... then half the time it doesnt work or disconnects before we have it...usually about 14mbps (think i got the letters right) Dont you mean 14kbs ;) |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 560941 | 2007-06-20 07:16:00 | Was it always really slow? What sort of modem do you have? Is it external or internal? Have you installed the correct drivers for it? Do you have electric fences nearby? Is the modem connected via a long extension cord to the phone jack? | Jen (38) | ||
| 560942 | 2007-06-20 07:18:00 | What sort of dial up modem does your friend have? Have they tried a different dial up modem? I guess there ISP is Xtra? Have they tried another computer on there phone line? (Then they can shut up telecom saying that its there computer that is slow) Have they tried using dial up at different times of the day & night? |
stu161204 (123) | ||
| 560943 | 2007-06-20 07:22:00 | yeah i never said i had it right..wouldnt have a clue really | hammer (1735) | ||
| 560944 | 2007-06-20 07:24:00 | Satellite being the final and only option now? | beeswax34 (63) | ||
| 560945 | 2007-06-20 07:25:00 | yes its always been slow... yes it is xtra.... only home at night ... no extension cord for phone or modem... internal modem.. drivers updated... no electric fences nearby have tried taking out all other phones while on internet too.. |
hammer (1735) | ||
| 560946 | 2007-06-20 07:25:00 | satellite.. as in what where..??? | hammer (1735) | ||
| 560947 | 2007-06-20 07:52:00 | Haven't used it myself, but these links might help you: www.orcon.net.nz www.ipstar.co.nz www.iconz.net |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 560948 | 2007-06-20 11:34:00 | my friend uses www.gasp.co.nz to get wireless via satellite basically it means your get good speeds regardless of your location and i wouldn't believe telecom, they always just blame you or your router for their crappy service. living 10km from the nearest exchange however means if you could get bradband it wont be very fast nor very reliable - but having said that my place is 6.5km away and gets speeds up to 1.6Mbps despite the telecom sparky who wired it up saying i'd be lucky to get 300kbps intermittently. |
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