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Whingeing Pom
The Fickle Finger of Fame. But no further forward.
GodMark2
Master Poster
That alone makes it all worthwhile, right?
Easy - ask the landlord for business advice, accept beer and pickled eggs instead, and log the value under 'consultancy fees' in your accounts.
It took a month but our service was finally restored (our next door neighbours are less lucky but at least they get a mobile signal so I've loaned them my 3G dongle).
Unfortunately "our intertubez haz a slow". It's probably down to BT Openreach's Dynamic Load Management (DLM) software which is supposed to monitor your connection to optimise your speed but instead ensures that, unless it is reset manually, you get the slowest possible speed considering your line conditions.
Unfortunately "our intertubez haz a slow". It's probably down to BT Openreach's Dynamic Load Management (DLM) software which is supposed to monitor your connection to optimise your speed but instead ensures that, unless it is reset manually, you get the slowest possible speed considering your line conditions.
More joy and happiness from Talktalk.
We can no longer make or receive phone calls on our landline and our broadband connection has slowed to a crawl. The slow broadband is not that unusual but the noise on the line is a new thing.
Fortunately there is enough bandwidth that our mobile phones can make calls.
I suspect that someone from BT Openreach has been fiddling around in the box in the village and in the process has ****** up our service. It's quite usual and like as not it'll take weeks to sort out
Nevermind, I'll have to work in the pub on Thursday in any case, we'll have no power. The joys of living in the country.
We can no longer make or receive phone calls on our landline and our broadband connection has slowed to a crawl. The slow broadband is not that unusual but the noise on the line is a new thing.
Fortunately there is enough bandwidth that our mobile phones can make calls.
I suspect that someone from BT Openreach has been fiddling around in the box in the village and in the process has ****** up our service. It's quite usual and like as not it'll take weeks to sort out
Nevermind, I'll have to work in the pub on Thursday in any case, we'll have no power. The joys of living in the country.
CORed
Penultimate Amazing
If I am understanding correctly, the TalkTalk router, though capable of working as an ADSL2 modem, is serving as a router only. Since he has fiber service, I believe the internet connection is something other than ADSL2. From his description of the problems with local connectivity, I think he is correct that the router is not working properly. Since (if i am correct) he is not using the ADSL modem function of the router at all, it could be replaced by any decent router. My suggestion would be to ditch the thing (and any monthly fee he is paying talktalk for it) and buy a decent router.
ETA: I didn't realize this was an old thread with an update.
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The saga continues 
Received a new router in October last year which provided measurably quicker performance. Unfortunately after Christmas we started getting intermittent slow-downs in performance. Connection speed would be too slow to measure for 10-20 minutes at a time a few times a day.
The router was still synchronised at a faster speed, and the connection was maintained (Citrix sessions would remain open) but web pages wouldn't open.
I could ping IP addresses (though the first attempt of 4 would fail), even DNS, but attempts to ping a website address failed.
Five engineer visits in January failed to fix the problem.
This morning however, the router is synched at 11.5 Mbps but the fastest connection I can get - wired or wi-fi is 0.7 Mbps. Looks like there's some major throttling in place - either that or OpenReach in attempting to fix someone else's problem have screwed us over
Received a new router in October last year which provided measurably quicker performance. Unfortunately after Christmas we started getting intermittent slow-downs in performance. Connection speed would be too slow to measure for 10-20 minutes at a time a few times a day.
The router was still synchronised at a faster speed, and the connection was maintained (Citrix sessions would remain open) but web pages wouldn't open.
I could ping IP addresses (though the first attempt of 4 would fail), even DNS, but attempts to ping a website address failed.
Five engineer visits in January failed to fix the problem.
This morning however, the router is synched at 11.5 Mbps but the fastest connection I can get - wired or wi-fi is 0.7 Mbps. Looks like there's some major throttling in place - either that or OpenReach in attempting to fix someone else's problem have screwed us over
After a decade of poor internet service we finally switched suppliers from Talktalk to Vodafone. The underlying infrastructure is still the same (and equally bad) so we get 5-8 Mbps but at least we were getting that reliably and one person having a teleconference wouldn't disable the internet for anyone else. We weren't getting the issue where after a few hours internet speed would drop to near zero and we would have to reboot the router.
This happy state of affairs lasted for 6 whole days and then a storm came through, a tree fell down and all the houses round here lost phone and internet.
The issue lies with Openreach, the monopoly supplier. Last time it took weeks for our line to be repaired.
We'd use mobile internet but there's no signal here.
This happy state of affairs lasted for 6 whole days and then a storm came through, a tree fell down and all the houses round here lost phone and internet.
The issue lies with Openreach, the monopoly supplier. Last time it took weeks for our line to be repaired.
We'd use mobile internet but there's no signal here.
jeremyp
Philosopher
I live in an apartment block that was built maybe 15 years ago. When it was built, they put a state of the art copper connection in. Now it's not state of the art and I'm limited to 10Megabits per second download.
The management company has been trying to get Openreach to come and install fibre for years but they simply do not seem to care. It's got to the point where they just don't even respond to communications.
We've now had more than 2 months of stable Vodafone Home Broadband 
Our maximum speeds are still as rubbish as ever (7-9mbps download, 700-900k upload) but we get this day in, day out without having to reboot the wireless router. We've also noted a couple of other improvements.
Firstly, if someone is uploading some pictures or other media, this no longer disables the internet for everyone else in the house.
Secondly, a single zoom call doesn't cripple the internet either.
All in all, it was well worth while the switch.
Our maximum speeds are still as rubbish as ever (7-9mbps download, 700-900k upload) but we get this day in, day out without having to reboot the wireless router. We've also noted a couple of other improvements.
Firstly, if someone is uploading some pictures or other media, this no longer disables the internet for everyone else in the house.
Secondly, a single zoom call doesn't cripple the internet either.
All in all, it was well worth while the switch.
malbui
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I’m still on copper in my townhouse but it gives me a lovely stable 300 megs day in day out so I’m not bothered about that. When I emerged from my morning of meetings today I found I had a message asking me for access for fibre to be installed. I thought it sounded a bit strange and so called my operator to ask what this would mean in terms of kit as I don’t know enough about routers to know about compatibility. There was a puzzled silence and some tapping at a keyboard before I was informed that as far as my operator is aware there are no plans to roll out fibre in my part of town before 2025. So left hand / right hand, or some kind of scam? I really don’t know.
novaphile
Quester of Doglets
90's here in Oz were nasty for internet connections.
I put in a second phone line in Canberra and claimed it was a dedicated fax line, because that was the only way that the telco would guarantee 2400 baud.
Note that my modem at that time would happily do 9600 baud, but the telco didn't care.