Ahhh Sloow On Speed Test

[spoony]

Hmm it was rather slow on that site as when i download from the web i usualy download at around 11 - 13mb/s
Connection Speed: downstream 12299 kbps upstream 766 kbps
Line Attenuation: 38.5 db 21.5 db
Noise Margin: 7.1 db 12.7 db

and the funny thing is i was with aol be4 i came to sky and they said my max downstream was 4mb/s iwas on there 8mb service and reciving half of that and was £30 a month oO now i came to sky and getting 12mb/s only thing was tooken awhile to get the order through with sky

[Face]

This is supposed to be an 8Mb sky connection, sky says its a problem with my extension, although i couldn't actually get through to anybody that spoke very good english at sky, twice.

[Wheelie]

Welcome to the site spoony & Face

Yes I don't really trust that speed test I much rather use this one http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

[Face]

I tried the above speed test as an altenative, but the results were almost exactly the same.
Im not a broadband genius so i may need some peoples help on this one,
My wireless network connection says
Speed: 54Mbps
Signal Strength: Excellent
Status: Connected

Yet when i try to download a file from either limewire or as an example yesterday i tried to download the first GTA from the rockstar website, my PC will not download any faster than 30kb/s, and this is supposed to be 8Mb broadband and im pretty sure it should be faster than that. Ringing sky is not help as the tech staff seem to just be reading from a troubleshooting sheet and seem to know very little about an individiuals problems.
Any help would be appreciated.
P.S. Yes i do have a microfilter in every phone socket.
Also after 6 at night my connection slows down to dial up levels and internet explorer crashes fairly frequently

[Wheelie]

There are a few a fewtickies in here http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=47 that could help with the settings in the router give them a whirl

[Face]

Wow, my download speeds have actually increased to about 180kb/s, makes me wonder how people on here can kno how to fix things but sky have no idea how to sort out the problem
thanks very much by the way
These are my speeds after editing the router settings
Still not 8mb but a lot better than before

[Wheelie]

I am glad it helps

As for how people on here know, thats easy a lot of members have years of experience and are very knowledgeable so hunting around the forum theres a good chance you will find answers to most problems.

[spoony]

Welcome to the site spoony & Face

Yes I don't really trust that speed test I much rather use this one http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/

thanks

yeah seems more accurate than speednet

1st
Download Speed: 9992 kbps (1249 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 597 kbps (74.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

2nd
Download Speed: 10367 kbps (1295.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 596 kbps (74.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

[Face]

Im still paying for a dial up connection with line one and a surftime package with BT is this what could be slowing my connection down?

[spoony]

should'nt think so as dial up is like calling someone over the phone might be wrong but i should'nt think so