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[Hoonigan]

Thanks a lot Dareos, I've followed your instructions and think I may have found some problems, but I don't fully understand what the problem might be so I've taken print screens of the following...

I turned off the laptops in the house and made sure my PC was the only thing running on my network, to try and rule out any accesses from other PCs skewing the results. I also shut down all programs that I could that would access the network.

Type in ping -n 20 www.bbc.co.uk
this will ping the bbc 20 times and give you results, you are really looking for an average below 30ms or so, any spikes over 100ms indicates an issues

As you can see here, 19 of the 20 results are between 23ms and 29ms, which is absolutely fine, but there's a spike of 99ms on the 5th ping.

do the same to your router ip instead of www.bbc.co.uk, see if it goes above 1 or 2 ms, again denotes a problem if this spikes at all

As you can see here, they're all <1ms apart from one, where it spikes to 6ms, again, no idea why this might be.

tracert (name or ip of server) will show each stage of the journey the signal takes, if you run this test a couple of times and the problem appears in the same area each time, points to where problem may lie. * denotes a timeout.

And here, there's 3 * showing timeouts, as you said, but what exactly does that mean? Is that anything to do with my computer or is that a problem with my ISP?

[Dareos]

Might be better with a new thread for this mate, as its not a troubleshooting thread.. but...


run that tracert a few times, see if its always on the same hop that you are finding the issue.

I wouldnt worry too much about the 6ms or the 99ms ping, 1 out of 20 spiking isnt in itself indicative of a major problem, those timeouts may well be tho. The first hop past the router is more than likely the exchange, so might be a BT issue, might be an ISP issue, call your isp and show them the results.

[Harshini]

Download speed : 3.898 Mbps
Upload speed : 1.79 Mbps
I had check it through ip-details.com

[mycarsavw]

Download speed is 1.69 Mbps
Upload speed is 1.334 Mbps.

Download speed : 3.898 Mbps
Upload speed : 1.79 Mbps
I had check it through ip-details.com

That's quite a difference in just four days, what have you done to improve it so much?

[mrbios]

Eurgh the last time i posted in this thread it was 2008 and i was on an 18mb download 1.1mb upload with an 18ms ping..........now i'm on this

[neonplanet40]

Ahhh how tech moves on

[mrbios]

Ahhh how tech moves on

Great progress!

1 month until I'm back around the 12-14mb mark, cannae wait! Had enough of living at the top of a giant hill.

[twenty4seven]

[56kbs]

I was looking at this thread thinking ah it's nice to see others with the same speed as me, only to notice the date...

Jealous of me? -

[mepsipax]

Download Speed - 52.13 mbps

Upload Speed 1.655 mbps

[mrbios]

Download Speed - 52.13 mbps

Upload Speed 1.655 mbps

I hate you

[mepsipax]

I hate you

Lol sorry! I am with Virgin BB.

I was with various ADSL isps in the past, and NTL some years ago (who at the time had rubbish customer service) Went back to rebranded Virgin around 3 years ago, and haven't looked back.

I remember being with Plusnet, who at the time advertised 'unlimited downloads' so I signed up.
3 weeks later, they changed their terms and conditions, to cap/limit downloads by a hell of a lot.

When I, and loads of other fedup customers complained, they said it was in the small print that they could change their T&C whenever they liked.

I was stuck with them for a year

[dct]

[Larkspeed]

I hate you

Download Speed - 120.16 Mbps

Upload Speed 9.45 Mbps

You must really despise me then LOL

[BerZerk]

[peterb]

Just gone infinity

From this



to this (in 5 minutes - the time it took to install)