Well, after a long wait and a lot of hassle, Bulldog have finally upgraded me from 1MB to 8MB. It's taken so long mainly due to the exchange not being upgraded till recently, but also due to a fault which occured last Thursday and was only fixed yesterday by BT engineers. Anyway, after lots of calls and lots of moaning (from me to Bulldog and BT) I'm back up.
However, after this massive wait and major inconvenience of having no internet since last Thursday, I found out I have been upgraded to the glorious speeds of 1.3MB.
At this point I was like:
I'm using a Netgear DG834 Router (not the best, I know, but I can't afford to upgrade it yet) and I've looked at Netgear's site but they say nothing about the maximum speeds you can use this with. So I'm wondering why my service is so slow.
I'm 1.4km away from the exchane where I live, but samknows.com says "According to BT Wholesale, your line should be able to support a 5.5Mbps or greater ADSL connection via ADSL Max.". I presume my router doesn't support ADSL Max? It doesn't surprise me at all that Bulldog failed to mention this when I signed up for 8MB even though I told them I had a DG834.
However, they did send me a free USB modem, which I will resort to using if I have to. It's a Speedtouch 330. Sadly, it plugs into the USB so one computer will have to be on for all the others to be able to use the net over the network!
Is this the only way around this? Can my DG834 be upgraded (I think it has the latest firmware already, so probably a no) to run at 8MB? Or should I contact Bulldog to see if there's anything wrong with the line?


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