[HLUG] Offtopic - How to get faster ADSL speeds

[Steve Bushell]

Hi Richard,

As to whether you will get an improvement.... Who can tell.... Are you REALLY only conecting at 64K? (0.064MBps) or is that a joke? I can only say that for me, the Zyxel DID help.  I tried direct into the socket at the back, and before the adsl filter change and eliminating the internal house wiring (which connecting there does!) it was marginaly better. The key is to eiminate as much noise pickup as possible I think, and internal wiring is a key culprit.

I remember 2 or 3 day downloads to get a new Slackware or Redhat.... And paying a FORTUNE to have bonded ISDN with BT telling me they were increasing prices as I should change to adsl (unavailable) pah!

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Smedley <smedley358 at btinternet.com>
Sent: 02 August 2008 19:16
To: Herefordshire Linux Users Group. <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: RE: [HLUG] Offtopic - How to get faster ADSL speeds

On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 14:12 +0100, Steve Bushell wrote:
> 1) change Belkin router to Zyxel - specified for RADSL, and use in low
> signal areas - increase to 2.5Mbits

Do you think something like the Zyxel would be an
improvement over the standard BT HomeHub affair?

I get 0.064MB/s - but then I'm several miles from
the exchange, and it was *years* after it became
ADSL enabled, before they managed to connect me. 

Ah, the ten hour dial up sessions doing
apt-get dist-upgrade
How I don't miss them ;)

> Julian Robbins wrote:
> > Interestingly, I tried the modem direct into the BT Master socket
> > instead. 
[snip]
> so I think the socket is dodgy, I can't think
> > what else it could be.

Did you unscrew the plate, and try the test socket 
inside the master socket?

 - Richard







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