jmo21
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First time poster, total newbie so please be gentle, I've been reading a lot of guides etc, hoping for some advice!
First, SamKnows - is always accurate?
I am positive (from speaking to Sky, my ISP, and BT engineer's) that I'm on the Baillieston Exchange - SamKnows thinks I'm on Glenboig.
Sky have been brutal, currently lucky to get 1Mb download speed, though they say I should be getting 3.5-4Mb, even that's not great obviously, I am far from the exchange - they keep tweaking the settings, sending out engineers who say the line is fine etc etc, rinse repeat.
Currently they have scheduled another engineer to come out on Saturday who is instructed to do a health check/quality gate check - not sure how this is different from the previous line checks, or why they haven't done it sooner.
So, been looking at other ISP's, BE being one of them (enabled at Baillieston, not at Glenboig), some reviews of BE, and of other ISP's for that matter, say their speeds have jumped significantly from BT, Sky, so figured it's worth trying someone else.
Any suggestions for this rambling post?
Stats are:
ROUTER STATISTICS
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 28496 32270 0 754 2678 02:42:37
LAN 16322868 20668577 0 1889 1889 315:47:04
WLAN 4571668 3838033 0 220322 77145 02:42:27
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3388 kbps 412 kbps
Line Attenuation 59.0db 36.2db
Noise Margin 10.1db 15.9db
First, SamKnows - is always accurate?
I am positive (from speaking to Sky, my ISP, and BT engineer's) that I'm on the Baillieston Exchange - SamKnows thinks I'm on Glenboig.
Sky have been brutal, currently lucky to get 1Mb download speed, though they say I should be getting 3.5-4Mb, even that's not great obviously, I am far from the exchange - they keep tweaking the settings, sending out engineers who say the line is fine etc etc, rinse repeat.
Currently they have scheduled another engineer to come out on Saturday who is instructed to do a health check/quality gate check - not sure how this is different from the previous line checks, or why they haven't done it sooner.
So, been looking at other ISP's, BE being one of them (enabled at Baillieston, not at Glenboig), some reviews of BE, and of other ISP's for that matter, say their speeds have jumped significantly from BT, Sky, so figured it's worth trying someone else.
Any suggestions for this rambling post?
Stats are:
ROUTER STATISTICS
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 28496 32270 0 754 2678 02:42:37
LAN 16322868 20668577 0 1889 1889 315:47:04
WLAN 4571668 3838033 0 220322 77145 02:42:27
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3388 kbps 412 kbps
Line Attenuation 59.0db 36.2db
Noise Margin 10.1db 15.9db
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