Who is to blame?

STEVED_2

Speedtest has my connection as a lousy 758 kb/s

Who is to blame for this AOL or BT?
I have an AOL connection but its through a BT line.

shadowdragon

your location to the exchange probably. What mb line do they say you have (bearing in mind they advertise upto Xmb) I get approx 3.2mb connection but rated upto 8mb due to my location to the exchange.

aliEnRIK

Well its also dependant on how far you are away from the exchange point
So partially both of them really. Your PAYING AOL but theyre USING BT
At the end of that day though id be on at AOL ~ its them your paying your money to. You would either have to get a bigger package (I assume your on 2 meg?)
Or go with virgin which will be FULL speed (So 10 meg would be EXACTLY 10 meg)

shadowdragon

aliEnRIK wrote: »

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Or go with virgin which will be FULL speed (So 10 meg would be EXACTLY 10 meg)

I thought VM were starting to throttle bandwidth, and you only get decent speeds at off peak times ect.

aliEnRIK

Thats only for the 1% of SERIOUS users (ie~ me )
On the whole the average person (ie 99% of them) will get full speed all the time
And even the THROTTLED speeds dont fluctuate (Though the times vary which Ive still never completely figured out)

STEVED_2

shadowdragon wrote: »

your location to the exchange probably. What mb line do they say you have (bearing in mind they advertise upto Xmb) I get approx 3.2mb connection but rated upto 8mb due to my location to the exchange.

they say most I can get is 4MB but today am getting nowhere near that.

STEVED_2

aliEnRIK wrote: »

Well its also dependant on how far you are away from the exchange point
So partially both of them really. Your PAYING AOL but theyre USING BT
At the end of that day though id be on at AOL ~ its them your paying your money to. You would either have to get a bigger package (I assume your on 2 meg?)
Or go with virgin which will be FULL speed (So 10 meg would be EXACTLY 10 meg)

No mate am on 4 meg

aliEnRIK

STEVED wrote: »

they say most I can get is 4MB but today am getting nowhere near that.

If its ONLY today then its probably just a fault somewhere
If its ALL THE TIME id be looking elsewhere if I were you

shadowdragon

STEVED wrote: »

they say most I can get is 4MB but today am getting nowhere near that.

Could well be your contention ratio (i.e lots of people on your line using the t'internet).

vyseyboy

STEVED wrote: »

Speedtest has my connection as a lousy 758 kb/s

Who is to blame for this AOL or BT?
I have an AOL connection but its through a BT line.

It could be BT's fault, or whoever built your house and did the telephone wiring.

Make sure you've got well filtered gut quality phone cabling and sockets, make sure them modem is plugged into the master phone socket, make sure there's an ADSL filter plugged into every phone socket with something plugged into it, and make sure there's no other wireless equipment, microwaves or fluorescent lighting nearby if you're using wireless.

If you make any improvements to the cabling, try phoning AOL to get them to do an ADSL re-calibration, which may or may not give you a faster speed.

Could also check the computer for spyware and the like if you haven't already. And make sure no one else is using your network, invited or otherwise (got wireless security?)

STEVED_2

vyseyboy wrote: »

It could be BT's fault, or whoever built your house and did the telephone wiring.

Make sure you've got well filtered gut quality phone cabling and sockets, make sure them modem is plugged into the master phone socket, make sure there's an ADSL filter plugged into every phone socket with something plugged into it, and make sure there's no other wireless equipment, microwaves or fluorescent lighting nearby if you're using wireless.

If you make any improvements to the cabling, try phoning AOL to get them to do an ADSL re-calibration, which may or may not give you a faster speed.

Could also check the computer for spyware and the like if you haven't already. And make sure no one else is using your network, invited or otherwise (got wireless security?)

Its a desktop mate so am not plugged into the master socket, that is downstairs.
Only had the comp 2 days, its not wireless mate I have an AOL broadband I plug into back of my comp.