Because i Love Computers

[alvoram]

Nov 4, 2012 14:14:49 GMT Bluefish said:

Ah but mine goes up to 100 meg very soon, then 110 after that Saying that, how high will it/can it go? Not sure you need more than 50 really, 75 or 100 meg would be, err mega

It's the upload speeds that suck on Virgin, and british broadband in general.... The main reason for faster unlimited broadband is for file sharing, there's no point in having stupidly fast downloads, if you can't share it back, especially if you use private trackers, as we have to these days. The problem is you have to keep a 1:1 share ratio, so you can technically only download as fast as your upload speed

[andy01424]

problem i have hence upgrade is daughter games and other half games i game all at same time,or daughter is on youtube on laptop and on pc gaming.4.25mb is struggling lol annoying though we moved exactly 1 mile up road and lost 12mb,plus need a good speed as may start running some game servers again and map uploads take for ever one game i had to upload 75gb of maps back ,in end gave up and mate in the USA did it with his works buisness connection

[alvoram]

Nov 4, 2012 22:37:44 GMT andy01424 said:

problem i have hence upgrade is daughter games and other half games i game all at same time,or daughter is on youtube on laptop and on pc gaming.4.25mb is struggling lol annoying though we moved exactly 1 mile up road and lost 12mb,plus need a good speed as may start running some game servers again and map uploads take for ever one game i had to upload 75gb of maps back ,in end gave up and mate in the USA did it with his works buisness connection

I read somewhere that modern games only use up about 50mb an hour, whilst actually playing, you will have more problems playing games if your line quality is poor, than you will if you have low speeds, speedtest have another site for gamers, called www.pingtest.net I believe, check your connection quality on there.

[meeee]

Nov 4, 2012 21:52:18 GMT andy01424 said:

an rubbing hands 8th Nov get 80 meg Down and 20 meg up ,will confirm when its installed hast to be better than the 4.25mb down and .750kb up i get at the moment


if any one plays any games on line and you know the ip and sometimes you struggle try this type cmd in Run or go start accessories Cmd propmt type tracert [ space ]then ip address then look up ips on here ip-lookup.net/ for server in New York i play on i go from uk-Germany -California bounce 2 times across the states to Washington then NY lol

20 meg up is impressive, who is that with?

[meeee]

Nov 4, 2012 21:44:59 GMT andy01424 said:

if you want to nose at your router inside change wep key to a new one try here and look for your router listed ,has user and pw to gain access to most of them ,www.portforward.com......

I presume you mean WPA or WPA2 rather than WEP? It is best to avoid using WEP whereever possible, far to easy to crack.

Meeee

[Brian]

whoooosh. Straight over my head

[Anne (fuzzy)]

*Exits thread fast as only speak English* ------------------------------------------------------>

[andy01424]

Nov 4, 2012 23:58:51 GMT meeee said:

Nov 4, 2012 21:52:18 GMT andy01424 said:

an rubbing hands 8th Nov get 80 meg Down and 20 meg up ,will confirm when its installed hast to be better than the 4.25mb down and .750kb up i get at the moment


if any one plays any games on line and you know the ip and sometimes you struggle try this type cmd in Run or go start accessories Cmd propmt type tracert [ space ]then ip address then look up ips on here ip-lookup.net/ for server in New York i play on i go from uk-Germany -California bounce 2 times across the states to Washington then NY lol

20 meg up is impressive, who is that with?

BT £26 a month plus line rental eve/weekend calls,Sky do it but 40/10 and want a £50 connection fee at £20 a month plus line rental

as for either wep wap wkp etc theres progs out there tha are easily available for cracking wifi passwords,just saying if you want to change security key to one you remember better then portforward will show you how to get admin side of router

[alvoram]

Nov 5, 2012 14:01:13 GMT andy01424 said:

Nov 4, 2012 23:58:51 GMT meeee said:

20 meg up is impressive, who is that with?

BT £26 a month plus line rental eve/weekend calls,Sky do it but 40/10 and want a £50 connection fee at £20 a month plus line rental

as for either wep wap wkp etc theres progs out there tha are easily available for cracking wifi passwords,just saying if you want to change security key to one you remember better then portforward will show you how to get admin side of router

It's exactly the same package talk talk offer, as their offering runs on BT's infinity network, only they are a little more honest about the speeds you can expect

[Ewol]

I got Sky FTTC a while back because they don't throttle P2P. Maybe it is a little more expensive, but I'm happy with it. Haven't disconnected in months and speeds are consistent.

[alvoram]

Nov 5, 2012 22:20:25 GMT Ewol said:

I got Sky FTTC a while back because they don't throttle P2P. Maybe it is a little more expensive, but I'm happy with it. Haven't disconnected in months and speeds are consistent.

What package are you on ewol, and what is your actual true speed... I'm interested to see how close these BT Network FFTC/FTTN packages get to their advertised speeds.

[Ewol]

I'm on the 40/10 package because I can't afford the higher package.

Although they call it 40/10 I've been told it's more like 38/8 and that's pretty consistant with my speedtest results.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 37679 kbps (4709.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 8477 kbps (1059.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 13 ms

[alvoram]

Nov 6, 2012 2:25:48 GMT Ewol said:

I'm on the 40/10 package because I can't afford the higher package.

Although they call it 40/10 I've been told it's more like 38/8 and that's pretty consistant with my speedtest results.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 37679 kbps (4709.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 8477 kbps (1059.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Latency: 13 ms

That's actually pretty good.

That's what I was talking about earlier in the thread with the advertised speeds of sky, BT and talktalk, they all offer the same product, which runs on the same network, but some have chosen to label their packages as 40mb and 80mb, where others have labelled them a little more honestly at 38mb and 76mb, that's my understanding of it anyway. I believe the upload speeds can genuinely go up to 10mb and 20mb though, or at least I thought they did :/

[Balllsy]

Here's one for you Andy... http : // asearchclub . com Frikkin browser hijacker...

I've tried all the usual stuff CC, Malaware, Spybot and still got the damned thing. I have tried every thing I can find on the internet although there is nothing specific to this hijacker any where

[Banky]

Great tips Andy,
Wish i seen these 15 year ago when i first got a computer would have saved me a lot of hassle
even in them days a lot of this would have came in handy.