[Gllug] OT : adsl line connection speeds

[Jack Bertram]

* Minty <mintywalker at gmail.com> [060911 11:51]:
> On 9/11/06, Jack Bertram <jack at jbertram.net> wrote:
> >The other thing you could try is to pay extra for prioritised service -
> >e.g., Eclipse (among others) allows you to buy an 8Mb service at four
> >different quality levels in which the contention is the same but they
> >route packets with different priorities.  I have the top level and am
> >very happy with the speed of the service
> 
> Oddily enough, eclipse are exactly the ISP in question, and I am
> paying for their top-tier consumer package.
> 
> To their credit, they have called me back when they said they would,
> but aren't optimistic as BT's test system isn't showing [1] the test
> results BT insist on having (and I have run).  Which is in itself
> suspicious ;)
> 
> [1] It's showing the bt+isp tests, but not the bt only tests, which I
> ran at the same time on the same machine

Hmmm.  Ok, I'm out of ideas.  But at the very least Eclipse should let
you try downgrading to one of their lower-tier packages and see whether
it makes a discernible difference in speed?

j
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