Ian bell wrote:
Nick Daniels wrote:
On Monday 14 May 2007 15:01, Jonathan McDowell wrote:
You don't say what type of ADSL you have. Is it a Max based product, rather than 1 Mb/s line (I assume if you've been getting 990kb/s it's not supposed to be a 2Mb/s line)? If so then if a Max line syncs at a lower than normal rate to the exchange then the data rate will be instantly dropped to the lower sync rate, whereas if it syncs to a higher than normal rate it will take 3 days for the data rate to be raised to match the higher line rate. This is to try and ensure a stable line.
Hi It is Plusnet Premier-up to 8Mbs, and allegdly this is the highest speed I can get at my location, I have had it two years at the same constant speed, and apart from the occasional drop-out, say once per month, I am "fairly happy" Never had a single spam, but the main reason I stay with them is real unlimited download-midnight to 4pm and 30GB/month evening,
You might think about changing to ukfsn.org. My 8 Mbps max package gives me 30G peak and 300G off peak bandwidth and it is totally Linux friendly.
Might be OT but could you please explain how a broadband package can possibly be linux un-friendly.
I'm totally confused as my broadband package doesn't care what OS I use.
My Virgin BB package is Linux un-friendly, I phoned them up to report a fault and they asked me what version of windows I was using.
Trying to persuade them that you've got a problem with their kit gets you nowhere because the person at the end of the phone can't go through their scripts...
Matt