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internet woes

Post by shadrack » Tue May 12, 2015 8:26 pm

my wireless router gave up working, for the past week its been on/off till yesterday when it gave up, even plugged in to the router the internet didnt work, anyway i had alot of invoices to get out before i go away so this morn nipped to maplin and bought a £35 router, brought it home and set it up, rang talk talk for some code or other and they said they would send me a new fastest one they do but in 5 days, so i set the maplins one up, anyway im back online but its slow, very slow compared to before,  before i clicked and instantly there, now i click a forum title and literally 10 seconds or so to load,
is this my chasty router?

tbh its got me by for the bills to be sent out so can sort at a later date
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Re: internet woes

Post by pvr » Tue May 12, 2015 9:17 pm

Check www.speedtest.net and give us back the results of that please?
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Re: internet woes

Post by shadrack » Tue May 12, 2015 9:24 pm

download speed  3.44mbps    upload speed 0.73mbps          ping 37ms

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Post by pvr » Tue May 12, 2015 9:29 pm

ADSL over copper I assume with those speeds.

So, you have your filter connected in the socket, right?
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Post by shadrack » Tue May 12, 2015 9:41 pm

yes, just not the one that came with my new router
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Post by pvr » Tue May 12, 2015 9:47 pm

All other (used) telephone sockets have a filter as well?

Also - swap the filter as well, they can go wrong.
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Re: internet woes

Post by shadrack » Tue May 12, 2015 9:58 pm

just realised the bt socket (slave) where it pluged into is loose, although the phone does make/ recieve calls fin, i will change that in the morn and fit the new filter that came with the router
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Re: internet woes

Post by shadrack » Wed May 13, 2015 5:21 pm

changed slave socket and filter, and my download speed gone to 7mbps,  upload to 0.8mbps and ping at 37

it seems alot fast but ive no idea what is a good speed etc
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Post by pvr » Wed May 13, 2015 5:26 pm

For ADSL that is about as good as you can get.
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Post by X5Sport » Wed May 13, 2015 6:56 pm

+1 for average on an ADSL2+ system - which they nearly all are now unless fibred.
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Post by shadrack » Wed May 13, 2015 10:04 pm

thats ok then, a non computer expert has fixed his internet :P

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Re: internet woes

Post by rhinoman » Sun May 24, 2015 9:43 pm

You saved a BT callous fee for that, they would definitely have charged you to fix it when TalkTalk finally passed it to them when they exhausted trouble shooting options.

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Re: internet woes

Post by shadrack » Mon May 25, 2015 10:31 am

[quote="rhinoman"]
You saved a BT callous fee for that, they would definitely have charged you to fix it when TalkTalk finally passed it to them when they exhausted trouble shooting options.
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