Hi Wesley, Have you tried forcing your modem to a fixed speed like 33k so it is not always trying to auonegiate a faster speed and forgetting to actually transfer data? I tend to do this for my rural friends who are still on dialup - not the sort thing you would expect in the city Maurice
> -----Original Message----- > From: Wesley Parish [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, 8 September 2009 8:48 a.m. > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: measurement software for electrical networks? > > > Well, for what it's worth, it's not getting any better; and I > have disproved a > couple of contentions of the amateurs I've talked to so far > at Telecom and > Paradise.net.nz - I've used the second jackpoint in the flat, > and it's still > falling over like a drunk with half a keg of vodka inside of > him; and I've > just upgraded the PC - and the connection's still falling over like > aforementioned drunk. > > I'm starting to think I deserve broadband purely on the > demerits of Telecom's > performance, as compensation for Telecom's lack thereof. > > At any rate, having to open ten tabs of slashdot to guarantee > getting even > one, is a bit much. > > And if I have to use a 526k DSL thingee to solve the problems > with a dial-up > connection - at a measly 5k6 (if I'm lucky) - perhaps the > problem isn't with > me. > > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I'm just wondering if there are any for Linux, that I could > use to get hard > > copy of actual voltage and amperage levels on my Internet > connection via > > Telecom's oh-so-wonderful lines. > > > > They cycle from useable to useless in between half=a=minute > to a quarter of > > an hour, and I'd like to document that. I may well decide > to start a > > class-action suit against Telecom for defrauding the > general public, and > > having hard evidence is likely to be vitally important. > > > > Oh, and by the way, Google is indeed my friend in this - > when Telecom's > > lines permit me to ask. Telecom's mastered the art of > punishing people for > > preferring to use someone else, after it mastered the art > of punishing them > > for using Telecom. > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > -- > Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish > ----- > George Kelischek - "To impress those high-tech computer types, > tell them what an Ocarina really is: > an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer." > ----- > Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? > You ask, what is the most important thing? > Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. > I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
