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Bah - moved to a new house now my internet crawls

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Originally posted by: bendixG15
Don't let those broadband guys gang up on you.
Obviously you have better things to do than spend 6 hours a day on the net.

I doubt that the contractors in house wiring has any affect on hookup speed.
You could hookup your own phone wire to the outside phone box to prove that.

I would bitch to the phone company, If that gets nothing, a diferent modem may help you out.
My own connection varies from 42,000 to 52,000 depending strictly on the modem
thats in the computer.

Hey, enjoy the new house and all the chores that go with it. No time for living on the net.
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Someone needs to examine the literacy rate on this forum.

1. DSL is not available here.
2. I just bought my first house, has occurred to anyone that highspeed might not be in the budget? Cable TV or high speed is an easy decision.
3. I was getting 4-6k/sec downloads. Now I get less than 3k.
4. I don't want to spend more time on the internet. I appreciate spending time with my wife instead.

Thanks for the suggestions those who answered my questions
 
No one has appreciated the use of broadband until they've had it and the lure of downloading things shows itself.
Believe me, once you have broadband, you'll never go back. Call your local DSL company.
 
Originally posted by: poppyq
I was in the same situation. The reason this happens is because in an area of new houses they use splitters to get more lines out of the actual copper wires. They take a pair of copper wires and install a device on it which allows it to create two separate lines, the problem with these devices is they cut your speed in half (and often introduce line noise). Most likely you are going to be out of luck on getting anything higher than 28.8 without going to dsl or cable.
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I do ISP tech support- He hit it on the head. You're going to be screwed on your dialup. You'll probably need to go with cable or some type of wireless if you want to go any faster. The other option is sometimes the landlord will let you run your own phone line to your apartment. If you can do that you can have them bypass the multiplexer that's causing your problems and that should fix it.
 
Originally posted by: lykaon78
Someone needs to examine the literacy rate on this forum.

1. DSL is not available here.
2. I just bought my first house, has occurred to anyone that highspeed might not be in the budget? Cable TV or high speed is an easy decision.
3. I was getting 4-6k/sec downloads. Now I get less than 3k.
4. I don't want to spend more time on the internet. I appreciate spending time with my wife instead.

Thanks for the suggestions those who answered my questions
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TV over internet is an easy decision? Anyone who can stomach the IQ-attack programming on TV these days has no place questioning others' intelligence or literacy... And if you're going to pull the family card, why does TV beat internet access? You like the ball & chain too much to spend more than a couple hours a week on the web, but vegetating in front of a TV together is ok? 😕

At any rate, I suspect the phone lines in your area aren't up to snuff for 56k access, in which case you can't do much about it.

Originally posted by: Legendary
No one has appreciated the use of broadband until they've had it and the lure of downloading things shows itself.
Believe me, once you have broadband, you'll never go back. Call your local DSL company.
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*nod*, the fact that he's having a cow over his speeds dropping from 4-6kB/s to an even more meager 3kB/s shows that he's a prime candidate for broadband... although, as he stated, DSL isn't available to him - the cable company is who he should be calling 😉
 
Originally posted by: lykaon78
Just moved into a brand new home.

I'm using the same dial-up isp and the same phone number but now I connect at 28.8bps where as before I'd get at least 52000bps. Moved less than 5 miles from an apartment to a house.

The phone guy that hooked up our phone says my builder used quality lines inside the house.?


Any suggestions on how to bring that speed up?

Thanks!

<Pre-emptive strike> No, I can't do high speed (I'm too cheap).
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Which modem? See the extra initialization commands in advanced setting, that may help. try typing "atx3" . I havent used dial up for ages, and I havent configured dial up for windows-XP, I used to use win95 with dial up...
 
Originally posted by: Legendary
No one has appreciated the use of broadband until they've had it and the lure of downloading things shows itself. Believe me, once you have broadband, you'll never go back. Call your local DSL company.
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The interesting thing is, that it's not entirely the bandwidth that changes the experience, it's the much lower latency, and the total lack of the hassle and delay to "dial-up" to the internet. No more waiting nearly a minute for a modem to dial, train, sync, and connect. Even if you aren't downloading big files all of hte time, it's just so much easier and more convenient to just check e-mail on a whim, visit a web site, look up information using Google, etc. The world is at your fingertips, literally. Almost like the book, in HHGttG.

However, the bandwidth does help, in terms of what sort of sizes of files are actually feasable to download/access in a reasonable timeframe. It's much like the difference between a horse-drawn buggy, and a modern automobile. You are a lot "free-er" to "travel" on the internet and do things. Yes, it's also much easier to "smuggle contraband" using a high-speed connection as well. But I would like to think that is not the primary reason for people to get broadband, just as it is not the primary reason for persons these days to own a motor-vehicle.

It's just generally nice to not have to actually watch your web pages draw themselves in, too. However, interestingly enough, once you have "more", you always want "more" besides. I just find myself downloading bigger files than before, and still watching and waiting for them to finish transferring. So the more things change, the more things stay the same. Perhaps it is for the same reason, that we mostly have 3Ghz+ CPUs these days, and the day-to-day operations of the computer don't really seem to be all that much faster, really.
 
Which modem? See the extra initialization commands in advanced setting, that may help. try typing "atx3" . I havent used dial up for ages, and I havent configured dial up for windows-XP, I used to use win95 with dial up...
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I have a cheapy modem from Microcenter (Network Everywhere I think). I don't think that is the problem becuase I was getting better speeds at my previous location with the same modem.

Also, "atx3" trick didn't work.

Thanks for the tip though.
 
Originally posted by: Spikesoldier
buy a wifi card and see if you can tap into your neighor's signal

problem solved
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This is exactly what I was going to suggest. If you have lousy speeds with good phone wires in the house (as the phone company guy said) then your nieghbors have the same or worse. They probably aren't as cheap as you (hey, he admitted that, not me) and have subscribed to broadband. I would seriously consider getting a wireless internet adapter and seeing if you can't find a local network to 'join'. I love my Netgear router and Wi-Fi adapter, but with my sons Belkin, I can see that 2 nieghbors have wireless access. When my internet went down the other day, he was the only one online for a few hours (yes, I switched him over to their network)! I would suggest that you get yourself a long usb extension cable that will allow you to position your reciever by any windows in the room (providing the room has more then one window). I would suggest that you get yourself a 802.11 "G" adapter, if you get a "B" and the nieghbor has a "G" router, you will slow his/her ENTIRE network down to "B" speeds.

 
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