Fed up with ADSL, just fed up.

mrk · 31 Aug 2007 at 00:16

Ok, I thought it would be teething problems as it only became live in March ish time in Gosport but Sky has been up and down with slow connection speeds and random drops lately almost every day - connects now at 6.4MB (did start off at 9 then settled at 8 and now less...)

I see NTL have a £29/month offer ending today for 20MB - I am about to sign up with them again.

BAH.

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mrk · 31 Aug 2007 at 01:36

I guess you are right there heh - I wonder if BE* would be worth considering? their site says a weeks downtime is expected whilst they re provision your exiting ADSL line - really a week? I could not manage that as I work from home too!

mrk · 31 Aug 2007 at 02:49

hmm I will actually buy a new router first as if I choose BE then a new router would be needed anyway and the DG834GT interface crashes a lot... will have info back!

mrk · 31 Aug 2007 at 12:19

Code:

ADSL Link  	Downstream  	Upstream
Connection Speed 	6432 kbps 	768 kbps
Line Attenuation 	38.0 db 	23.5 db
Noise Margin 	13.1 db 	14.0 db

these have not changed since the line went live..

mrk · 31 Aug 2007 at 16:44

Well BE have said I can expect 9-12MB - for £25 a month It's not going to be worth the extra few MB - if this continues I will just get Virgin media back on as we used to have it before moving to SKy.

Hmmm

mrk · 31 Aug 2007 at 18:51

Now that's an offer!

does anyone know if the BeBox is any good? I require a wireless-G router minimum with IP reservation and portforward capabilities

mrk · 31 Aug 2007 at 20:57

tolien said:
As expected for a free router (though they ask for it back or ask you to pay for it when you leave), it's pretty ropey - though at the better end of the scale. It's a rebranded Speedtouch (can't remember the model) with some changes to the firmware so you don't have to enter a username/password.

Are you on Sky's ADSL2+ service? Because if you are, they should be using seamless rate adaption...

As far as I am aware yes I should be on the ADSL2 service. I have raised a support ticket with them 24 hours ago so am waiting for a response. Thing is I really do like the Netgear DG834GT SKy give, it has just the features I need and does not cripple with torrents I find. The connection is just unstable at times!

mrk · 6 Sep 2007 at 13:38

Ok, this morning Sky ADSL was, it came back up at about 12:20pm - enough is enough. I phoned up Virgin media and am now going to have 20MB cable as of Monday for £29/month. I also ordered a WRT54GL (had the 54G v2 before I got Sky for 3 years).

Looking forward to 20MB =] but most especially DD-WRT once again

mrk · 6 Sep 2007 at 14:54

NTL line already existed from previous ntl line so no setup charges to pay hehe