My thanks to Mal and Lloyd for their replies.
Yes, I spoke with Westnet Support on a line other than ISDN.
No one prior to Mal suggested the complete reset of NT1 Plus II. I
have now done that and downloads speeds are improved. However,
because part of the problem was that previous download speeds quickly
tailed off to below 50% efficiency, I won't cheer the result until I
try a whopping big download.
We'll see...
Pity those who think speeds below 512k are REAL Broadband, and spare
a thought for those who can't obtain any Broadband at all.
Vlad
On 23, Sep 2006, at 5:04, Malcom Burtenshaw wrote:
I'm suprised that nobody got you to completely powercycle the NT1+2
unit (unplug from power, unplug all cables from the ISDN network,
wait 30 seconds and reconnect the lot) or have tried the other test
account they have.
When you were talking with Westnet Support were you on the phone via
the ISDN because if you were you would be taking up another channel
and you would only be able to get 7-8KB/sec of incompressible data
from a single channel.
Mal
On 21/09/2006, at 10:51 PM, Vladimir James wrote:
My download speeds are running like arctic treacle. Just in the
last fortnight
or so. Can't think of anything I might have done to cause it. Every
once in a
while I get this paranoid feeling that some virus has snuck in, or
my ISP is
squeezing the bandwidth.
I'm on ISDN dial-up, so speeds were seldom better than 90KB/s. But
1/KB/s!
C'mon! The two recent speed tests indicated a rip-roaring 11KB/s.
I've repaired permissions, unloaded caches, run even re-installed
MacOS 10.4.7
Combo. No good. Talking and troubleshooting with Westnet Support
was of
little help. I was told that 11KB/s wasn't so bad at all. I could
hardly believe
what I was hearing. Tests with Westnet were variable, but generally
7 or 8KB/s.
Does anyone have suggestions on what I might try other than trying
another
computer (Westnet's suggestion)?
Vlad James
G4/800, MacOS 10.4.7, NT1 Plus II, Camino, Safari, Firefox, ClamXav
