Preparing for UKonline (22mb)Netgear 834GT

Gavin

Gavin

Gavin

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I received my letter of excessive use from BT on Thursday last week, I rang them and explained i didnt want to leave as i had been with them since the trials in 97 but they said they no longer catered for heavy users like my family. Hmmm:(

So i got my mac code and rang Ukonline.Friday morning i received emails from ukonline telling me my line would be live by Friday and enclosed user name and password etc....

Oh yeah they also advised me that the max speed estimated was around 15.5mb down and 768k upload. More than enough for me. Lets hope the stats are correct. To be honest for £29.99 a month, anything over 10mb will do as i was £29.99 a month to bt for a 40gig capped line after they changed there terms and conditions.

Saturday morning the router arrived that you HAVE to buy, i needed a new one anyway and this one was only slightly over priced from them.

ANyhow ive set the router up just to use my bt line that i have at the moment and it seems far better than my 3com router and im quite impressed with it. Although as people mention the user interface is quite had to get hold of , im hoping this soons wears off.

Ive read about Ukonline on dslguide and opinions seems to mixed, like many other isps. There wasnt to many bad comments so im hoping i get lucky and have a trouble free line BT provided.

Is there anything i need to watch out for? Anyway of increasing speeds?

I already have a BT master plate installed and im the port of call on the line. Ive read that Bullion routers seem the onees to use as they use the same chipset as the equipment in the exchanges that Ukonline/easynet install. Many people have increased there speed by as much as 5mb just by using one. They seem cheap enough but are quite hard to get hold of. I dont know where they originate from though.

http://www.billion.com.au/product/adsl/bipac7202.php Can be had for around £40

http://www.billion.uk.com/product/wireless/bipac7402g.htm I think that one is there best one so to speak and can be had for £100

They have QOS on which many routers dont, even the cheap one does.

ANyway keep your fingers crossed for me and hope its a smooth transgression.


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hope all goes well.

I'm with UK Online but only the 2 meg service, but at £15 a month bargin and is uncapped.

Oh and they forgot to charge me for the first 2 months. I called up and asked to check my account, she apoligised and said i can have the next month for free :) :D
 
CS is great, BT broke my current line after 10 months of having DSL with UKOnline and BT would not admit to the issue being theirs. Spoke to UKO and they said they would re-provision the line for nothing on any other line and if that was no good cancel the contract and refund me 2 months usage. So I had the line reprovisioned and they dropped me down to £24.99pm and refunded me £60 :D
 
Billion are very good routers and yes UKO do use the same chipset at their exchange ;). You could increase the speed you get by tweaking a few ways such as the SNR tweak allowing you to sync at higher speeds or just general tweaks such as MTU and RWIN. These will give you a lot more and you will notice it because you are dealing with a lot of speed there.
 
just do the same mate moving from blueyonder to ukonline 22mb got my router line will be turned on the 02/03 been told i will get 11.5 mb as well lets hope it goes well if the billion is a better router i will be getting one very soon after im turned on
 
Gavin said:
How have you found there service and CS to be?
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only had to call them once, on the day i was switched on, didn't work at first but it was something to do with my router :p

oh and i was using the free phone technical support number btw :)
 
so far not overly impressed although its early days. Im synching at 18.3mb and speed testing at around 6mb.

not to mention the router keeps crashing arhhhhhhhhhhhh

My 3com one how ever only synchs at 8mb!
 
just reflashed the firmware now only 16.7mb but getting speed tests of around 6mb still.

Any ideas anyone?
 
I've been with UKO since the LLU trialling a while back. Been on the ADSL2+ since trial too, and in the early days there were minor problems, but I have had no problems whatsoever, last i looked my router was connected for 500 odd hours :-P
 
where are you getting the speedtests from?
maybe try download something off the ms website? surely they'll have the bandwidth to cope ;)
 
getting around 1000k download from there. i should still be getting far more....

Uploading is fine at 90k how ever

Ive just flashed the firmware again.

I will leave it for the weekend as the connection just doesnt feel right. If not i will just ring them in monday. How ever what ever way i look at it i was paying £29.99 for a 2mg with bt im now paying the same for a 6mb. Although no where near what it should be admittedly.
 
i may do but want to know first if the problem is with the router or the line......

It just keeps dieing after a while......After a few hours of connection and not particularly heavy use it needs rebooting as all external net activity dies.
 
sounds like the router to me mate afair few have had problems witht eh net gear just can not make my mind up to get the billion before im turned on
 
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