C h a z II

I cannot get braodband where I live and a radio broadband service is not available. What options do I have to speed up my internet connection? Currently only connecting at 33k!

GaryScoobNCBR

How about moving out of your cave and into a house

only joking, have you checked out satellite broadband?

lightning101

Depending on your usage - i.e. night and weekends only you can get 256mbit duplex isdn on a normal line. A couple of ISP were providing this last year.

C h a z II

ISDN, should have thought of that

jpor

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33k! You should at least be getting 48K connection I would have thought. How good is your phone line? Does it crackle a lot when talking to people on the phone? If so It may be time to call up BT and have the line checked.

Had heard in the past you can have BT power the line more, I think the term was set it to 3 or something!?

andrewdelvard

33K? Luxury. Ours in 28.8K....

C h a z II

Phoneline is OK. I think your talking about "upping" the Ren on the line. Advice given by someone who I suspect has not had the delight of ever asking BT for anything lol!

GC8

The correct term would be: 'increasing the gain' on the line. Its standard practice to lower it, which saves BT a fortune over the whole network. You arrange this by speaking the BTs fault reporting service; Ive spoken to people in (BT) call centres whove told me that Id need to deal with 'sales'; if this happens hang up and dial again, the next fellow was an engineer who did it straight away. Thisll probably only see the speed increase to 44kbps or thereabouts though, 48kbps if youre lucky. Cheap extensions will lower the speed too, to check plug the modem fly lead directly into the master socket and see if theres an improvement.

C h a z II

Cheers guys.

GC8

One last suggestion; when you plug directly into the master socket, remove EVERY other device thats plugged in. My fax machine started to cripple dial up connection speed out of the blue.

Simon

bioforger

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Increase the gain (volume) on your line via BT by a click or two, then you should get proper 56K connections. You should get at least 44kbps, ideally 49.2kbps ore more. I always use to connect at 33.6bps, after gain increase it always connected at 49.3bps and sometimes 50.6bps. This should improve your download speed a bit, but not much It increased mine from 3.5-4K to 4.8-5K constant. I would die if I had to go back to dialup now

doh sry GC8 just noticed your post

jpor

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I know what you mean. I expereinced first hand BTs support when helping a Neighbour out with their Broadband connection. And It's still ongoing after arguing that it's their Server that wouldn't allow for the username and password to be authenticated at their end, even though they said it's their exchange.

Luckily I havn't had to make calls to them personally or I would have flipped.

GC8

Requesting to have the gain increased is an extremely straight forward process, as long as you speak to a competent member of staff.

Simon

Nimbus

Have you looked at OnSpeed?

C h a z

That looks fantastic, anyone used them?