I recently switched to Vodafone because of the price, seemed like a good offer. However I've noticed that it is considerably slower than my previous ISP Orcon, although supposedly the same speed offered. Downloads of iso takes several hours longer, sometimes the connection drops, and when I try to run two computers on my network the second one drops connection frequently. This never happened until I changed ISP. Unfortunately I signed up for a year's contract. Very disappointed.
"Dance among the moonbeams, feel the magic in the air".
why is your upstream only 160? I'd ring the helpdesk and ask them that.
Yep - looks like Voda have you on a capped upload speed at 160. Is your connection supposed to be full / full or full / 160?
also your downstream rate of 7616 is the normal maximum of ADSL1 with interleaving on. I'd look into that too. You're either using an ADSL1 modem or you're connected to ADSL1 equipment at the CO end... or something else is going on!
I don't understand what any of the rates mean - I only know that since I've been with Vodafone everything is slow.
It's a basic pack, and I went over the data cap and opted to pay extra .
It's a D-Link modem supplied by Vodafone, supposed to be ADSL2.
What's the CO end? Them or me?
I run Pclinuxos KDE on an AMD Athlon, if that makes any difference, though I think it shouldn't. It dual boots with Windows XP which also is slow. My laptop runs Pclinuxos Phoenix, but not using it much as keeps being dropped of the connection on my wired network. Again a problem which has been happening since I switched ISP.
Thanks for the help.
"Dance among the moonbeams, feel the magic in the air".
silverbirch: I don't understand what any of the rates mean - I only know that since I've been with Vodafone everything is slow.
It's a basic pack, and I went over the data cap and opted to pay extra .
It's a D-Link modem supplied by Vodafone, supposed to be ADSL2.
What's the CO end? Them or me?
I run Pclinuxos KDE on an AMD Athlon, if that makes any difference, though I think it shouldn't. It dual boots with Windows XP which also is slow. My laptop runs Pclinuxos Phoenix, but not using it much as keeps being dropped of the connection on my wired network. Again a problem which has been happening since I switched ISP.
Thanks for the help.
CO end is the exchange/cabinet end you are running at ADSL1 rates for some reason and your upstream of 160 has been artificially limited somehow.. maybe a muckup with the settings at their end. this will effectively be limiting your download speed
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