On 14-May-07 12:48:03, Nick Daniels wrote:
Hi
Bit off topic for lists but, this morning I noticed my line was slow, according to Plusnet speed check I am getting 125kbs, and for the last year I have been getting 990kbs. Yet they insist there is nothing wrong. Can anybody suggest anything (else) to check my end before I loose my temper with them? Running Kubuntu, Netgear DG834, tried another computer same results Kind Regards - Nick Daniels
Adam has made a number of good suggestions for trouble-shooting.
However, I would highlight his final remark about speed-testers.
I do not trust any of the on-line speed-checkers. In the days when I was systematically checking my own ADSL speeds, I would download (ftp) a 4.5MB file from my account on a remote host at Manchester (not 100 miles from my ISP, Zen, at Rochdale).
I consistently got at least twice the transfer speed that I got from any speed-checker. (It was a ".doc" Word file that someone once emailed me, so a close approximation to random bytes and not likely to benefit much from in-line compression, if any).
Best wishes, Ted.
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