4d32ftw

mine gets really slow sometimes to the point i give up and put the normal * on again

nldfc

I think I may try and rewire the house a bit to have hardwire connections upstairs to speed it up a bit - The wireless option i'm pretty sure is slowing my connection down a good bit

Atlantic Xpat

You have Rogers right? What service do you have? I have recently switched back to them and have the (alledged) 25mbps service. That's all fine and dandy but the crappy SMC modem/router they provide sucks. It's in the basement. I get upto 20mbps wifi sitting in the basement but when I go upstairs it's <10.

nldfc

Yip Rogers it is - Free years deal that I got from them when i bought the house - to be honest I will be going back to Aliant as soon as its over - The speeds are unpredictable as hell , I will try a check with speedtest.net hard wired and wireless tonight just out of curiosity.

Had a couple of messages from them the last couple of months that I am approaching my limit as well which isnt helping my torrent downloading quota

nldfc

This is what i get according to speedtest using halifax with wireless I should add

Atlantic Xpat

I do a bit better.....

nldfc

Is that down in the basement or upstairs ?


tried shutting down the other laptop and shutting the torrent clients and streams down and its still crap

Atlantic Xpat

That's upstairs away from the router. I do have the encrypton turned off (but MAC filtering on before anyone comes round to try to steal my connection). I'm no techie but I think the encrypton seems to slow things down a tad.

nldfc

I just took the lappy downstairs and practically had it sitting on the smc box and still couldnt get over 10 - I will try hardwire tomorrow , there must at least 10 bloody ethernet cables in this house and I cant find one of them right now

can see the phone and the internet going back to rogers and taking aliant back on again

Atlantic Xpat

What Rogers internet service have you subscribed to? I have the 25mbps package, one down from the ultimate. If you are on the 10Mbps deal then your speeds are pretty reasonable.

I moved back to Rogers from Aliant because where I am, I can only get 3Mbps with them and thats with drop-outs. Might be different to you being closer the the mythical exchange!

nldfc

I will have to give them a call to see what package I am on - may be worth upgrading to the 25 if I am only on a 10

Atlantic Xpat

I'm on 'Extreme Plus'. Man, I'm on the edge.

nikkif99uk

what codec do i need some of the channels say a codec is needed

nikkif99uk

i can get the flash hq ones to work though

nldfc

Could you let me know what ones are not working for you and i will see what codecs you need - I take it all the vlc ones are working ?