Wi-Fi woes

[Northerner]

It's difficult even with a lot of people sharing a connection to completely saturate it so that a low bandwidth site like Google becomes unavailable

I take it you've checked obvious things on your own laptop like rouge processes that are chewing up 100% or at least large parts of the processor?

Afraid I don't know anything about that particular router.

Jim

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.

[JimOttley]

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

[Northerner]

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

Well, I live accross the street to Manchester University, pretty much a student area with gigabytes per second flying through the airwaves So who knows... My previous place, I took out the Virgin 20 meg package so this is a huuuuuuge drop in speed for me

[aromulus]

I found out at my cost that BT is a shower of ****

For years I was paying top money for unlimited downloads, up to 8 meg, blah, blah, blah, and never ever got it.... It was slowed down at the exchange.... I did find out later....
Complaining didn't work, so I took my business to AOL, which has been great and has delivered its promises.
The speed has improved greatly, infact it went from barely a meg to nearly 3, but I am told that BT is still keeping speeds down, at the exchange, for whatever reason.

[KeithD]

I found out at my cost that BT is a shower of ****

Never had a problem with BT, always get over 7mbps, and a 20:1 ratio which I share sod all with at prime times as it's a business account