Extreamly high ping in games and crap download speeds.
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As its right from the first hop that suggests either local traffic originating in your premises, malfunctioning hardware at the exchange or contention at or around the exchange...
If this is opal as I suspect this is why many businesses use them as a backup connection... cheap but somewhat less than ideal.
If this is opal as I suspect this is why many businesses use them as a backup connection... cheap but somewhat less than ideal.
Opal? All I have is a router, then out of the house on a BT landline. ISP is AOL. Could it be someone scrounging bandwidth off my router? But then would the first hope not be over 1ms? Any idea how to find if someone is scrounging? I've got WEP on.
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We just moved from AOL on a BT line to AOL on the AOL line.
We still get the same internet speed download wise, but now we get low pings 24-7, whereas on the BT line I would see a ping of 400ms on BF2 from 5pm to midnight (for those who don't game that is compeltely unplayable for an fps).
The AOL man on the phone said AOL lines have a max 10 ppl per network whereas BT have up to 80, which is why I felt like dial-up at peak times.
Hope this helps.
He's referring to Opal Telecom, aka TalkTalk, aka The Carphone Warehouse. They're effectively your ISP - they bought AOL UK three years ago.
I guess the only thing to do is switch ISP I guess? If we wanted AOL on an AOL line I presume that is LLU? Which is not present in this area. I know for a fact if we rang AOL up and complained about these problems they'd say nothing is wrong and say it's something wrong with the PC or router.
