I've recently joined Sky after being involved in the BISCit debacle and I wonder if some of you old hands could give me some info?
Firstly, my router seems to drop connections like David James with buttery gloves on - before Easter it was not connecting on startup and several calls to Sky Support led only to me having to reset the router, losing port forwading info etc.
I can see the router perfectly in my wireless connections group, but the actual line connection was intermittent. Oddly, when I was on the 'phone to Sky, it almost always kicked itself into life and an experiment where I rang my mobile from my landline also had the same effect, as did trying to use a PSP to connect to the internet. Any idea what that's about?
For the last two days it seems to have been better, in that it connects and mostly stays connected, with only one or two dropouts, so maybe it was just a transient fault on the line, but I'd much rather not have to keep checking it if I'm downloading something to make sure it's still working!
Secondly, my line speeds are all over the place, Using the bt speedcheck page, my connections have been anything from 320kbps to 4880kbps and there's nothing to indicate as and why it gets a particular speed. Again, this might just be a line problem, but I'd expect a level of consistancy within an certain range, not over 4mb difference!
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be happy to read them.
Firstly, my router seems to drop connections like David James with buttery gloves on - before Easter it was not connecting on startup and several calls to Sky Support led only to me having to reset the router, losing port forwading info etc.
I can see the router perfectly in my wireless connections group, but the actual line connection was intermittent. Oddly, when I was on the 'phone to Sky, it almost always kicked itself into life and an experiment where I rang my mobile from my landline also had the same effect, as did trying to use a PSP to connect to the internet. Any idea what that's about?
For the last two days it seems to have been better, in that it connects and mostly stays connected, with only one or two dropouts, so maybe it was just a transient fault on the line, but I'd much rather not have to keep checking it if I'm downloading something to make sure it's still working!
Secondly, my line speeds are all over the place, Using the bt speedcheck page, my connections have been anything from 320kbps to 4880kbps and there's nothing to indicate as and why it gets a particular speed. Again, this might just be a line problem, but I'd expect a level of consistancy within an certain range, not over 4mb difference!
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be happy to read them.
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