[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Shaun Orchard wrote: > He came out, plugged in his modem and laptop, waited 15 minutes to boot, and > he only checked to see if I was syncing at the right speed (yes) and that > the BT test username worked (yes) and that he could stream a video using his > test application (yes but that's not a scientific test). I got my laptop and > modem out, logged in with the BT speedtest username, ran a BT speedtest, and > got the blisteringly fast speed of 700Kbit. He didn't know what to say and > left. Not Bucfastleigh by any chance? When we were eventually enabled, our exchange sufferd from a VP problem - Virtual Path, I think. I too was with Zen at the time and although got 2Mb sync, I never got anywhere near it. I think it was something to do with the way BT allocate bandwidth out of the exchange at the time - I did get a BT man to come, but he was able to repeat the download test and observed it wasn't right, so luckilly I never got charged for it. He even upgraded my master socket to an NTE5 - Nice BT man and he got a cuppa and some nice biscuits... I persuaded most of my neighbours to complain and as if by magic some weeks later it all got "fixed" and we were all of 2Mb solid... I think (hope!) that particular issue is a thing of the past though. Gordon -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html