[HLUG] Offtopic - How to get faster ADSL speeds

[Andrew Hodgson]

Hi,

Ah, I remember the issues I had with ISDN, Demon and BT Surftime.  When
it worked, it was grate, allowing me to have effectively 24/7 64K ISDN
calls to Demon, and I did the bonded ISDN 128K as well during the
weekends on occasions (when nobody was there to ask what I was doing and
how much it would cost!).

BT sent me a letter around 3 months before we got broadband here in 2005
stating that they were withdrawing the Surftime product and that I
should go to broadband, if I didn't already know that it was on the
horizon, I would have kicked up a real fuss!

I could probably do with tweaking my DSL config, I used to get around
6MBPS with this, but only now get around 4/4.5MBPS, but that is better
than some people!

Andrew.

-----Original Message-----
From: herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:herefordshire-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Steve
Bushell
Sent: 02 August 2008 20:04
To: smedley358 at btinternet.com; Herefordshire Linux Users Group.
Subject: RE: [HLUG] Offtopic - How to get faster ADSL speeds

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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