Well I'm having another moan at BT at trying to fix our terrible internet connection and I stumbled upon a site... http://pingtest.net/ Anyone got a worse connection than mine?
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. I might try turning off interleaving sometime to see if I can improve the ping a bit more.
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 .
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.
Just did some checking and we get that fibre on the 31st Dec 2010, thanks BT . 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.
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)
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*