After reading several tweaks about DSL, I began to think about line quality more than the computer itself. I was amazed at what I found out though my own little trial and error. When you think about it, every telephone line in your home may cause interferance on a DSL line. Not to mention use power on the line to power the telephone itself. I was getting a bit upset because I thought my ISP was jipping me by decreasing bandwidth when the speed test were showing my bandwidth dropping down between 300-450 Kbps. Soooo, I started by disconnecting one phone at a time in my home starting with the oldest. Older electronics usually are not as efficient as newer ones. Disconnecting the oldest phone instantly brought me up to approx. 850 Kbps. Hmmmmm, interesting! I disconnected all the phones and my speed returned to what I origianlly started with when I set up the DSL to 1.2 Mbps. Unfortunately, with DSL, many of us pick it because we can have the telephone and computer on the same line. So I had to hook up the telephones again. Minus the old one!!!! Give it a try and see how it works. Just remember, not everything is the computers or ISP's fault. Another tip from a different visitor: Beyond disconnecting phones on DSL line, try running a seperate line right off the box. one other thing that I tried based on expensive phone cables out there, is exposing the wires and twisting them around each other as tight as possible. This gave me a 400kbps increase, give it a try it is awesome!
I have filters on all my phone lines. I've never had any problems with my dsl being slow. All them tweaks out there are crap imo. It's very unlikely you will get any faster than what your modem and your provider with let you.
akw, i assume you exited your broswer and made sure your cache was empty when you did the retest's right? i redid the same bandwidth test about 4 times and got up to 6000 kb/s on a >256 dsl
Yeh, but still why would your phones take any of your bandwidth? If that was true, then there would be a slow down when your talking on the phone?
My TV, Phone and Modem go though same line, i should be getting 8-12mbps but only around 400-700kbps, Would this possably work in my case?
I would presume you know that turning off TV's helps that. Also I have found the little thing on the Pole outside to turn up my connection for my Cable. Though, I don't reccomend it, you could do it.
Yes, this works. I did this when I had a packet loss problem. It gradually fixed itself, after doing this.
My friend who has cable sai dhe experimented with unplugging the tv box completely (not just turning it off) and he said the speed shot way up
