Those who I have known for a few years and used to game with me online will know I've always had a slower than average Internet connection due to the rural area I live in. So before anyone starts to laugh at my ridiculously slow speeds, please take not of what I said so you are more understand towards my obsolete technology for using the World Wide Web.
Now, to what I was going to ask for help on or at least some sort of insight was my download speeds.
So, here we go . . .
Once we first got ADSL in this area I was obviously chuffed to bits and I was very happy to have a nice 512Kb/s ADSL connection. This to me was great, way faster than what I had before. After what seemed and eternity we were able to get up to 1Mb/s. Oh yes! Good, huh? Super fast!
After that I noticed that on a speed availability site (I forget which one, maybe my ISP . . .) I was able to get 2Mb/s. At this point I was practically creaming in my pants. 2Mb/s! Never!
I contacted my ISP and informed them that it was saying I was able to get these speeds and they done whatever they did and, there it was, my speed increased.
Thinking about it, I'd best tell you what ISP I'm with -
http://www.plus.net
So, at this current moment
http://www.speedtest.net is giving me this:-
(Now it was a waste of time telling you what ISP I'm with at it tells you just there!)
Obviously it's not as fast as I'd like it to be, nor is it as fast as it used to be, but hey, it's still better than nothing.
Oh yeah, download speeds . . .
Once my ADSL was
upgraded I was getting download speeds of up to 160Kb/s, sometimes faster. I know it isn't fast like you lot probably know but it done the job.
Now things have gone downhill.
The majority of places I download from I am getting a seriously crap download speed, with it maxing out at about 30Kb/s then slowly getting slower. It never used to be like this and it's only this year it's been doing it. At first I thought it was just where I was downloading from but then I realised it was pretty much everywhere and other people who were downloading from the same place were getting fast speeds.
My connection is fine for playing games online. There's no problem there at all. I stream music and video (apart from HD) fine. It's just downloading.
So then, guys, have any of you any idea what could be going on?
We've always had a fair bit of noise on the line but that is purely due to the extremely crap copper wires we still use in this area for the phones. Yes, copper wires. You heard correct!
We've changed filters a few times and now the filter on the master socket is playing up. There's crackling on the line when we make a phone call, but when we plug the phone direct into the master socket the crackling seems to go.
I might as well, whilst I'm here, ask if there are any recommended filters to buy? If so, please post them here!
Here is the broadband line status from the routers configuration page:-
Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 1696 Kbps 448 Kbps
Noise Margin 6.4 dB 14.0 dB
Line Attenuation 63.5 dB 31.5 dB
Output Power 16.6 dBm 12.2 dBm
I may as well tell you what router I have. It's a BT Voyager 2110.
It's nothing great, I know.
Any help will be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance!
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