[Wylug-help] Slow Internet with Ubuntu 11.04

[John Hodrien]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2011, James Holden wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-09-02 at 16:31 +0200, T. Noland wrote:
>> My router only serves me, not a huge local network of eager beevers, and at the time I accessed it, it wasn't doing anything else
>> like downloading pages or films or online video with skype... Nowt, in fact. It should just have been sitting there waiting for
>> commands from me. I mentioned it because on the few occasions I'd needed to access it previously, response had been practically
>> instantaneous.
>
> Same here - it's the freebie router from the ISP and I think it's just crap.
> Thomson TG585 or something like that.

TG585 is indeed total crapy.  I got an ADSL sync speed of 2/3rds what I could
get with an old Linksys router I had, and it didn't correctly support WDS,
despite having it enabled in the firmware.  I had two and gave both away for
free.  I've had complaints from one of the people I gave it to...

jh