Trying to speed up our 1MBit/s home inet!

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Atm we have a useless talk talk router which kicks off any mobile devices after a couple of minutes, so im replacing this with a netgear dg834pn router which worked before it broke [due to a lightning strike]

the router is NOT conected to the master socket as of now

My PC is wireless [has to be because where it is placed]


main questions.

-will an iplate likely help if i connect the router to the master socket?
-the master socket is much further away than where the router is now..will this reduce the speed negating any benefit from the master socket/iplate combo?
-we have talk talk as an ISP but can change providing the cost is £10-15 per month.

is there anything else that might help?
 
ok im missing something here,

on doing the bt speedtest this is the result
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but trying to load a youtube video [and infact any downloading] i get a max rate of
50-60KBps [or 400-500 Kbps, about 1/4 of the speed test!]
 
Check for LLU providers in your exchange. Sky/Easynet and O2/BE are good and not too expensive.
Move Router to master socket
Change your filter.
Check connection speed in test socket if you have one.
Ask your ISP what speed they estimated when you signed up if it's recently. if it's faster than what you're getting it would appear they've capped you thanks to not being in the master socket. Phone them and ask for the profile to be changed.
 
No llu providers at all, i already checked that, also puts costs up at same time as slow speed.

Will moving the router to the master socket outweigh the extra distance it puts between the pc and router?

I can plug the router into the master socket but have not tried it yet, as for the bell wire, not removed, must detrimentally affect something doing that surely
 
al4x said:
as for the bell wire, not removed, must detrimentally affect something doing that surely
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Only if you have ancient phones that don't have their own ringing capacitor. Most do these days. Worst case scenario without the bell wire is that an old phone wouldn't ring anyway, you won't lose any speed, reliability or service.
 
looks like im being capped during peak times, this morning its back to the full 1.5Mbit/s speed that i can cope with, its the 0.5Mbit speeds during weekday evenings that does my head in!

So i guess my issue is with ISP, but then again, around here they probably all do it. i will still try moving the router to the master socket tho.
 
is that definitely uncapped? the same provider was mentioned before?

Im fairly sure looking at bandwidth over the last week it is capping? does it sound like it to you guys?

EDT, looks like thats capped too at peak times on their support pages, looks like i cant get away from it being in a 'slow' area

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this system would also explain why i can get 1.5Mbit when doing a speed test but while trying to stream be unable to at 0.4Mbit
 
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plug your router into test socket and then try. I ran router for 6 years on a extension getting around 1.5mb

plugged it into master/test socket, went straight up to 2.5mb after 3-4 days it had synced to around 3.4mb. It was down to cheap, rubbish telephone extension cable.

Certainly worth a shot, will only take a minute and a screwdriver.
 
What I was trying to get at was looks like what plusnet do is exactly the same as i get with talk talk now, so therefore switching would likely yeild a no quicker service

Before looking into a new isp I will definitely try the master socket as it costs nothing, will need to see if the wireless signal can reach the pc though!
 
I am in a non llu area, started with sky, terrible, capped at peak times and if go over there 1.4gb daily limit your capped for weeks, I scrapped sky in the first month, then went to BT, rubbish service again, slowed down to a crawl from about 1 pm onwards, stuck with them for 3 months as they claimed they were trying to fix the issue's, had enough of them and told them I wanted out which they let me, went with Xilo, no real problems since, quite a fast connection, much better than BT or sky could do, occasionally it will have a slow period but hardly noticeable and most likely down to BT, it has a 50 Gb a month cap, but weekends are not included, and midnight to 9am is off peak and free of usage caps, so 50Gb only applies between Monday to Friday between 9 am to midnight.

But is £26.03 a month, but defiantly worth it.
 
al4x said:
But why is it not?
The chart above shows plusnet slow down streaming at peak times, and that is exactly what talk talk do.

Am I missing something?
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May be Plusnet aren't as severe as TalkTalk.

Providers that do throttle hopefully do it to different degrees. So pick the lesser of two evils.

Ideally you need to work out how much bandwidth you use a month, and then see if you can find an ISP with no traffic management within your budget with sufficient download limit. But seems a bit wasted if only connected at about 2.5Mb.
 
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