John, a considerable while back I had similar problems. Whenever it became cold, my Internet speed would decline markedly. I complained repeatedly to my ISP, AAPT, who treated me like an idiot, continually asking me to disconnect all other equipment etc. To shut them up I disconnected the house telephone wiring at our point-of-presence, and connected my modem directly to the POP. Then using my mobile phone, I complained again. AAPT trotted out the usual about other devices, so I explained what I had done. They first admonishing me for having fiddled with the POP, but then tested the circuit once again and downloaded my modem logs once again, and admitted that there was a strange correlation between download speed and temperature. They then said that the problem was inexplicable and that I would have to live with it.
A while later I was fortunate to find a Telstra tech working on one of those silver bollards at the end of our street closer to the exchange. Uncharacteristically, he was quite friendly and I explained my problem to him. He said he suspected it could be the joint on my cable in the actual bollard on which he was working. He said many of the joints on that bollard were bad because of some dodgy waterproofing compound that Telstra had used decades ago. He got various details from me and said he would try to do something one day. Amazing! About two weeks later there was a little note in my letterbox saying joint found and cleaned, test speeds please. My speed has been fairly consistent since, come rain, shine, or school-kids. All the evidence points to thermal expansion and contraction in a bad cable joint as the cause of my problem. Unfortunately I didn't get the tech's details so could not thank him for probably breaking a lot of Telstra protocols, but fixing my problem. Check if your problem in not similar by correlating your speed with air temperature, rather than time of day. Also check workdays vs weekend days, and wet vs dry weather On 14/06/2011, at 6:50 PM, John Daniels wrote: > Hi everyone > > I am still being plagued with a big reduction in speed in the evening. Up > until 3.20pm it was 162KBs, then went to 90KBs and 50KBs > > Has anyone else on Hammersley Exchange experienced this? > > Cheers > > John Regards, Ray Forma Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:[email protected]>
