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Old 30-10-08, 03:49 PM
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That cant be right I am on Max, but that is ridiculous. Ironically, speeds for me have also seemed to have got slower with regards to browsing. Even wife noticed!

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Re: Speed Check - Definitely Something Wrong!

well, try SkyUsers ' speed test.
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Using Sky Users Speedtest

8912 down
646 up

That aint great

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 12284 kbps 796 kbps
Line Attenuation 32.0 db 17.3 db
Noise Margin 9.4 db 13.5 db
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Re: Speed Check - Definitely Something Wrong!

That's 9mb which is better than a kick in the teeth.

What is happening? Slow browsing? Are you on wireless?
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Re: Speed Check - Definitely Something Wrong!

I have had much better speeds than that in the past. Was capped on 12284 about 3 months ago after the DLM and its been sluggish since. I had no problems at all even when I could manage to get my noise margin to 6db with sometimes 14000+ downstream speed. The last week or so browsing has got noticeably worse, but not unbearable.

I only mention because it seems others are having some speed issues.

I never contacted customer support before I was capped and my error margins were pretty low. My network is wired.
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have you ran disc cleanup and defragmenter
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Re: Speed Check - Definitely Something Wrong!

Try BT Openworld and post your ave download speed. Also try in safemode.
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