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Pingtest.net

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Well I'm having another moan at BT at trying to fix our terrible internet connection and I stumbled upon a site...

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http://pingtest.net/

Anyone got a worse connection than mine? :D
 
I had a connection that was almost as bad when I was with O2 (originally with Tiscali/Talk Talk where the connection was very variable) a few weeks ago, though it was the speed rather than the line quality that was particularly awful with a download speed worse than dialup even when syncing at 8 Mb. Sadly I don't have the links to the speed and ping tests.

Luckily I was within the 30 day trial so I switched again, now I'm happy. :)
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I might try turning off interleaving sometime to see if I can improve the ping a bit more.
 
Bennieboy© said:
bloody heck, :O thats terrible, why not change suppliers?
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If they don't fix it this time we're certainly looking at switching, even though they keep touting a 40-50mbps service coming to our town (its just 1.5mbs at the mo). They can stick it if the line quality is going to be this poor!
Also, a polite **** to everyone with an A connection :p :eek:.
 
Dagless said:
If they don't fix it this time we're certainly looking at switching, even though they keep touting a 40-50mbps service coming to our town (its just 1.5mbs at the mo). They can stick it if the line quality is going to be this poor!
Also, **** to everyone with an A connection :p :eek:.
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the 40-50 will only be through fibre op's do you get your net through the phone line? have you tried changing the micro filter attached to the line?
 
A useful tip I found was to disable the bell/ring wire (not used by modern phones) which helped my connection a lot.
Take a look at the ThinkBroadband FAQ. I used some insulation tape to disable it.
 
Bennieboy© said:
the 40-50 will only be through fibre op's do you get your net through the phone line? have you tried changing the micro filter attached to the line?
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Just did some checking and we get that fibre on the 31st Dec 2010, thanks BT :rolleyes:. But yea we've done everything we can to improve our line. It's the 3rd time we've had to contact them and every time - nothing.
 
Dagless said:
Just did some checking and we get that fibre on the 31st Dec 2010, thanks BT :rolleyes:. But yea we've done everything we can to improve our line. It's the 3rd time we've had to contact them and every time - nothing.
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i'd change supplier, i've been with some crappy suppliers in my time but never had anything that bad, on a side note,

are you using a stock supplier router? or your own one, if it's stock, try restarting it, i've found mine bogs down every week ;)
 
From a Brit point of view my location is the back of beyond:
(the second one is near on twelve thousand miles and is not that much worse than yours I'd get very angry at BT about this)
 

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i hate AT&T...they constantly disconnect me, and im supposedly paying for 1.5mbps but only get 150kbps...gosh, idk why i havent changed to road runner or cox... *sigh*
 
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