Slowest BB in the country?

standinman2009

Cycrow wrote: »

i had better speed than that back in 98 :P

Wow you were lucky back then i had only 56 Kbps dail up in those days ,I dint think the Uk got broadband till 2001 !

Jamie_Carter

standinman2009 wrote: »

Wow you were lucky back then i had only 56 Kbps dail up in those days ,I dint think the Uk got broadband till 2001 !

I'm sure I had NTL, or Cabletel as it was then, in 1998

macman

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

But if they are using a BT line, they won't get any faster BB.

I didn't suggest that they would. But they would probably get better service.
I was simply correcting the common misapprehension that a BT-only Market 1 exchange means that you must take your services from BT.

techno12

Use a shielded telephone cable from the master socket to the modem/router.

This makes a difference (well it did for me, I got 20% faster sync speeds compared to the thin grey cable that's normally used. The one I have is a Belkin - really thick and silver coloured.

Same principal applies to marginal freeview signals. Mine used to break up until I got a shielded aerial cable - the 'signal quality' value shot up when using it instead of the cheapo one.

penrhyn

Speculation is useless, the OP needs to post their router line stats.
My theory is that one of Linda's Llama's has chewed the cable.

macman

penrhyn wrote: »

Speculation is useless, the OP needs to post their router line stats.
My theory is that one of Linda's Llama's has chewed the cable.

But which one?

Oddjob

techno12 wrote: »

Use a shielded telephone cable from the master socket to the modem/router.

This makes a difference (well it did for me, I got 20% faster sync speeds compared to the thin grey cable that's normally used. The one I have is a Belkin - really thick and silver coloured.

Same principal applies to marginal freeview signals. Mine used to break up until I got a shielded aerial cable - the 'signal quality' value shot up when using it instead of the cheapo one.

What is the longest length these come in please? I have to trail my lead around the room to get to where the router is. Need a really long cable. Where would you get one from?
TIA

Cycrow

Jamie_Carter wrote: »

I'm sure I had NTL, or Cabletel as it was then, in 1998

Yeah i had NTL back then

i got it on launch when it was at 500k.

at that time it was limited to certain areas of the country

it was eventually boosted to 600k

macman

Oddjob wrote: »

What is the longest length these come in please? I have to trail my lead around the room to get to where the router is. Need a really long cable. Where would you get one from?
TIA

Much better to use a long ethernet cable and put the router near the NTE5. Long trailing telephone leads are invariably bad for speeds-though I would agree that better quality ones may help.

techno12

Oddjob wrote: »

What is the longest length these come in please? I have to trail my lead around the room to get to where the router is. Need a really long cable. Where would you get one from?
TIA

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Belkin-Hi-Speed-Internet-Modem-RJ11M-M/dp/B000FO6I4I/ref=pd_sim_sbs_computers_5

That one looks like mine, though much longer at 7.5m.

I see they do a 10m one as well, but that looks different (probably as effective though)