So, my internet connection was set up this morning, just plugged in my sky box and as expected it is syncing pretty slowly. Now, I've just checked with sky.com and they say that I should be getting between 2 and 12.2Mb, which is a fairly large range, and a quick speedtest gives me:
(Though it also seems to think that Bristol is the closest place for me when I'm actually in London!)
Now, I know it takes some time as they start the speed off slowly and slowly increase it up to the maximum the line can handle, but how long does this take roughly, and besides not unplugging the sky box, are there any things that I should/shouldn't do to help speed the process up.
For instance, before I got this connection the block of flats I'm living in had a network for the residents where I was getting around 8.5 / 0.75 on speedtest. Would it be better for me to switch back to that so that my line can sync at the highest possible speed? I also want to upload some videos to youtube, but I assume that hammering the upload of my connection would cause some issues with the syncing?
In short, what should and shouldn't I do for this! Thanks!
Edit: Also, is it worth sticking with the sky box? Or switching to a different router. My PC is connected via ethernet, so I don't see there being a huge benefit, but if switching to a different router could give me higher sync speeds or something then I would be silly not to!

(Though it also seems to think that Bristol is the closest place for me when I'm actually in London!)
Now, I know it takes some time as they start the speed off slowly and slowly increase it up to the maximum the line can handle, but how long does this take roughly, and besides not unplugging the sky box, are there any things that I should/shouldn't do to help speed the process up.
For instance, before I got this connection the block of flats I'm living in had a network for the residents where I was getting around 8.5 / 0.75 on speedtest. Would it be better for me to switch back to that so that my line can sync at the highest possible speed? I also want to upload some videos to youtube, but I assume that hammering the upload of my connection would cause some issues with the syncing?
In short, what should and shouldn't I do for this! Thanks!

Edit: Also, is it worth sticking with the sky box? Or switching to a different router. My PC is connected via ethernet, so I don't see there being a huge benefit, but if switching to a different router could give me higher sync speeds or something then I would be silly not to!
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