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Increasing your broadband speed
Topic Started: Apr 11 2008, 12:30 PM (335 Views)
dodmaster	Mar 10 2009, 10:10 PM Post #41
the greatness never ends Posts: 783 Group: Clan Member Member #100 Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag dodmaster	ok, after experiencing the worst lag ever (even worse when I was on horrange) I went and removed the bell wire from my phone socket. When I unscrewed the socket, I was perplexed to find not 1, but 2 white fucking wires jacked into the 5 slot!? One is the normal white wire coming from the main white cable, but the other is a white and intermittent blue 'hooped' wire that comes from one of two grey cables which are otherwise unused inside the socket, which I definitely didn't expect to see. Anyway I pulled out the bellwire 3/6 and rebooted my router . . . for no change whatsoever. My router didn't even sync any faster! I'm thinking its the fault of this dual jack into the 5 slot. Definitely wasn't a BT engineer that fixed that up tbh. Looks like a handy sandy job to me. Anyway I'd got onto talktalk at the weekend and they did a line check which should have reduced the noise on my line. But again, no change. Grr!



MeatyFiend	Mar 11 2009, 02:04 AM Post #42
Posts: 5,299 Group: Admins Member #21 Joined: Dec 30, 2007 Xbox Live Gamertag MeatyFiend	talk talk are fucking shit dod, i wouldn't expect anything from them



the mighty coco	Mar 11 2009, 03:15 PM Post #43
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,395 Group: Admins Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007 Xbox Live Gamertag the mighty coco	i've asked to get my interleaving switched off. i stay pretty close to my exchange and i don't think i've ever seen any errors in packets through my router so it should still be pretty stable. i've been pinging the bbc web server at different times of day to try and get a more accurate idea of my line latency. it's usually about 55-75ms so lets see what difference having the interleaving off makes.



dodmaster	Mar 11 2009, 03:52 PM Post #44
the greatness never ends Posts: 783 Group: Clan Member Member #100 Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag dodmaster	coco I thought you just switched to plusnet? your pung should be all over the shop atm, along with your data rate if it's only been 10 days..? Anyways i'm going to give my connection a few days to try sort itself out, as most people who've fannied about with this socket's wiring said that they saw a change after bt found the correct speed from the new setup. I actually could download at 1100kbps thru wireless (usually its 350-400kbps) after 12pm lastnight, but xboxlive was still pish when I checked. Edited by dodmaster, Mar 11 2009, 03:53 PM.



the mighty coco	Mar 11 2009, 04:21 PM Post #45
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,395 Group: Admins Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007 Xbox Live Gamertag the mighty coco	it's been very stable since the change over. i've been watching it like a fucking hawk. i had some quite bad lag last night, shot heaps of folks to no effect. still had a lot of fucking kills, lol. but yeah it's been stable and download speeds have almost doubled so it looks like there was some kind of throttling of my connection.



dodmaster	Mar 11 2009, 04:30 PM Post #46
the greatness never ends Posts: 783 Group: Clan Member Member #100 Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag dodmaster	hmn. well I am considering plusnet should my connection not improve in the next week. I could be done with more speed, herbert, but I have to figure out this mad socket connections first. Here's a link that makes me wonder wtf is going on http://www.britishtelephones.com/wiring/socketwiring.htm the thick grey wires in behind my socket are just a mystery - my socket seems to be fed by two separate lines - one white, one(two) grey. . ? aha Quote: If two cables are to be connected to the socket, a second wire will need to be inserted at the same terminal. Each wire must be inserted individually and not both at once. Ensure that wires are pushed into the connector fork fully, one on top of the other. The socket will only accommodate two cables maximum. now I don't have an extension socket (or at least an active extension socket), so I fail to understand where this second terminal 5 connection comes into play. If Mr Elvis were in the building I'd offer him a digestive biscuit for a clue. Edited by dodmaster, Mar 11 2009, 04:38 PM.



mcwh	Mar 11 2009, 07:14 PM Post #47
Posts: 667 Group: Clan Member Member #78 Joined: Jun 28, 2008	i'm with virgin johnny and just blag em tell em you are fuckjing off to bt and they will offer ya anything .. they gave me free telly for upstairs ...and 20 meg bband ..lol i am always switching between sky and virgin ..sky are harder to blag but virgin are shit and they know it so will offer ya more



GingerElvis	Mar 11 2009, 09:15 PM Post #48
I might be boring, but inside there's interesting person waiting to get out. Posts: 589 Group: Clan Member Member #19 Joined: Dec 30, 2007 Xbox Live Gamertag GingerElvis	Coco Try a trace route instead of just pinging, should tell you where it's falling down if at all. Example below of how it should look. "C:/>tracert bbc.co.uk" Then use a Who Is to find out who those IP addresses are. Dod Difficult to say really, sounds about right though. The circuit runs on a ring so if you have any extensions it's probably right you'll have two wires behind the socket: A-B - B-A Loop. To be honest, sockets aren't my thing and I can't talk about them with any authority. As for a line test clearing noise, think Tiscali have given you the brush off there mate. I know of no test anywhere for copper line that can clear noise as it's almost always caused by external voltage. Can't remember who you ISP is (o2 isn't it?), ask them to re-evaluate your line speed profile again. If they agree, it may take 2hrs - 10 days before your connection stabilises again. The Exchange equipment works on trial and error - the closer your Maximum Stable Rate is to your current rate, the quicker it will stabilise. edit Sorry Dod, just re-read your original question about the socket! No, that def doesn't sound right and needs to be looked at. Plus I meant TalkTalk when I said Tiscali :-) Edited by GingerElvis, Mar 11 2009, 09:31 PM.



the mighty coco	Mar 11 2009, 09:47 PM Post #49
4th admin of the apocalypse!!! Posts: 6,395 Group: Admins Member #7 Joined: Dec 27, 2007 Xbox Live Gamertag the mighty coco	yeah i've been running the tracert to plus.net as well, seemingly there are a couple of gateways that i could be on, just randomly assigned when you switch your router on, so plus net update a graph every half hour of which one is running best. just have to hit and hope as to wether or not you get on it. only needs to be done if there is any problems of course......which i'm kinda hoping isn't very fucking often.



dodmaster	Mar 11 2009, 10:14 PM Post #50
the greatness never ends Posts: 783 Group: Clan Member Member #100 Joined: Aug 10, 2008 Xbox Live Gamertag dodmaster	You certainly like these biscuits :) Quote: Sorry Dod, just re-read your original question about the socket! No, that def doesn't sound right and needs to be looked at. Plus I meant TalkTalk when I said Tiscali :-) Well I'm just not sure what do to about it. I don't have a wire insertion tool and I'm not about to bugger about with it at the blunt end of my knowledge. I know my router sync'd at just under 4mbps last week, but now it won't sync at above 2.5. I will go ask o2 to go re-evaluate my speed profile, cheers. Hopefully there will be a marked difference next week, but tbh I'm not waiting until April the 14th (o2 fools day) for them to magically fix everything. And talktalk are just dodgy. I'm seriously considering jumping ship to plusnet for a rocksolid connection on the WBC wholesale service, but I guess I can wait and see how this episode pans out. Fanx.



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