Hi Hexus - I need a bit of direction here regarding my broadband connection. I'm with Plus.net and while I've never had a problem with them as such, as I'm using a BT line, I have a problem with them.
Around the start of Feb I experienced a major drop in speed (from around 2/3mb to the equivalent of dial up), and loads of line drops, constant. Infact the only way the line would connect was if the phone is taken off the hook. and even then it was unstable. I noticed this all happened around the time there was bad weather. My wireless router is connected direct to the main socket in the house, which then in turn runs up the side of the house, across to a telegraph pole. The line was crackling as well slightly. But these was a intermittent problems, sometimes it was, sometimes it wasn't
I've never had a prob with my router, I tried the test socket, changed filters etc - at that time I couldn't be dealing with any stress or hassle as I was researching all the time using the net for my Disso. I rang up BT they were ready to come around, but only if I was ready to hand over 150 quid or something if there wasn't a problem with there line, and it was my equipment (as from there initial checks, their line was fine).
I wasn't ready or happy with that, I just couldn't be arsed and was worried if they came round the line would be fine, and as my Broadband is with Plus.net, BT couldn't be bothered.
Anyway, it actually improved after a week, and my line speed went up to 1mb, for about 1 day :-\ I still had alot going on to think about it. But a while ago, once I had done my work, I phoned Plus.net to try and get them to send BT around, I got the same thing from them, about having to fork out money, and I should buy a new router - I don't really want to buy a new router, because I'm pretty sure it's fine.
This problem happened once In the past too - and BT did come out, the engineer mentioned something about a connection being loose, up the road in the box or something. I'm guessing the same thing has happened, or they didn't fix it properly.
Should I just buy a modem/router to make sure it's not my stuff that is dud? I had a ADSL PCI modem, but I can't get it to work because there are no driver for Vista x64. I hate the fact my area does not have fibre optic, and it's just these old analogue lines. No matter what BB I go on, I'll still be on a BT line.
The low speed problem is still there, but not dropping as much, I'm getting d/l speeds of 15Kb
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3776 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 42.0 db 23.5 db
Noise Margin 15.6 db 22.0 db
story for the long story/rant.


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