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Grant Sewell wrote:
It's not a good idea to keep rebooting the router though otherwise the DSLAM at the Exchange will think there is a line fault and keep reducing the BRAS profile and stick you on a really slow speed until it's reset. I made that mistake on Enta when I used to powercycle my router to get on a different Central.On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:22:21 +0000 Samuel Tarling wrote:Hey everyone, a massively Linux unrelated problem, just wondering if anyone can help I've got BT broadband, meant to be getting 1MB, I normally get ~500kb/s but the last few days, on my XP and Linux machine, it has gone down to ~15kb/s but the BT HomeHub is saying its still getting 900kb/s (pah, it would wouldn't it..) Any help at all would be amazing, bearing in mind I've tried changing WiFi channels...Hi Sam, Changing WiFi channels is unlikely to make any difference. The connection speed of which you're talking is the ADSL side of things, and will (almost) always be significantly slower than your WiFi. Things you should be looking out for are your "signal to noise ratio" (S/N) and your error rates. It's a very Windows-esque thing to do but sometimes the quickest and easiest option is simply to reboot the router. Sure it doesn't tell you what the problem is, but if this only happens every 6 months or so, I think it's worth it. Grant.
However I gather once in a while won't hurt, just not lots and lots over a short period of time (say a day or so).
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