Quote Originally Posted by Northerner View Post
The PC itself is ship shape, I never download stuff I think is infected with spyware; plus I never install anything I think might be unreliable. No slow down and no strange processes popping up My PC is fine!

I know a few of my housemates have complained about the same problem. I was just wondering if there was some sort of 'cheat' I could use to keep my PC conected all the time. Guess not..

I did get a mobile dongle from T-mobile. Pay as you go jobby.. When it is really bad I do use it, but I hate the way it distorts images while trying to minimize the size of them Plus it only lets me watch 1 or 2 youtube videos

So, looks like I am stuck with it till I move, and quite frankly that won't be for any time soon.
Your problem might be wider i.e. at the exchange it's almost certainly a contention problem of some kind, just not so sure that it is a contention problem in your house, you may be really close (in telephone exchange terms) to a lot of big downloaders and that might be the main problem but really hard to tell.

It also might just be an intermittent problem where you are having trouble connecting to the DNS server of your ISP who knows :( internet connections at the street level are a black art these days

I am lucky I get 13MB down and about 750K up pretty much consistently.


Jim