Broadband speed

albertross_2

You are on 8 meg, your wiring is fine, the 100 is the speed of your ethernet card, and is irrelevant, the difference (8-2) is down to congestion/bandwidth/testing innacuracy, and there is nothing you can do about it, apart from move isp, or try a test after midnight.

espresso

polomint wrote: »

ok found out how to do that...right the router shows..

connection speed 8096kbps downstream
448kbps upstream

So is that saying its reaching 8mbs?

When i hover over the computers in the system tray it says..100mbps..

It proves that you are have, with no shadow of doubt been changed onto the up to 8Mbps ADSL max package. If you can now post SNR, line attenuation figures etc. that would help.

TonyLisaP

polomint wrote: »

ok found out how to do that...right the router shows..

connection speed 8096kbps downstream
448kbps upstream

So is that saying its reaching 8mbs?

When i hover over the computers in the system tray it says..100mbps..

The 100MBs is the speed on your local area connection (LAN) but not the Wide Area Network (WAN)

polomint_2

albertross wrote: »

You are on 8 meg, the 100 is the speed of your ethernet card, and is irrelevant.

Wonderful....:rotfl: Thanx for all the help. I learnt alot. Now i know how to get into my router...:T

So whats next?...

TonyLisaP

Convincing JJE to stay is next, excellent input.

espresso

jje wrote: »

Should have noticed its obvious that in the two weeks or less i have been posting on this board that a number of you are on an Ego trip .

You simply have to read what has already been posted before posting!

Thanks but no thanks i am off.

Fine, if that's what you really want, Bye!

jje

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polomint_2

Come now...no falling out on my thread allowed. :beer:

DatabaseError

polomint wrote: »

I usually always unplug my router at night any way. Shouldnt i be doing this?

unplugging at night, and plugging back in in the morning is fine, resetting at night is to be avoided if possible for the reasons stated. i suffer occasional resyncs overnight due to low snr, and my profile can jump from the 7150 which i feel very lucky to have, to 6000 which i'm still very happy with, then taking days to recover. nightly unplugging would prevent this for me, but also prevent the services/apps i have scheduled through the night running (antivirus, antispyware, defrag, monitoring tools and download apps), plus i really can't be bothered for the little power the router uses.

As to another poster (now a long, messed up thread that i can't be bothered trawling back through to find a name) mentioning 'ego trips', we are all here to give or receive advice, often that advice could start with RTFM, though most are too polite so say so, but in answering, RTFQ is often a good starting point. Occasionally, we all make mistakes, and get rightly corrected, the grown up thing to do in that situation is to hold one's hands up and admit fault, not take the ball home.

:beer: