dizzy101
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Hi all would really appreciate a few points of view here...
Firstly I have never had a good dsl line,I have a long line from the exchange so the maximum I could get on my old dsl service was 1meg..bt announce adsl max,better for everyone??I think not!
at first I was getting 1.8 meg..fantastic.now my line connects at 512k during the week & 1.2 for the last 2 weekends & my ping for gaming is horrendous.
things seem to have gone down hill since I had a fault on my line a few weeks ago (telephone went completely)the BT engineer said I had 2 faults! one from the pole to my house & one underground 250ms away so of he trots to the green box & puts me on a new pair(whatever that means) fiddles about up the pole,puts me a new little white box & connection socket in the house,he also said he did a bit of a cheat with the wire to the white box so he didnt have to drill another hole but the phone was working fine & I got my internet back on after being without it for 5 days.
now my speeds are getting worse & to cap it off I'm with fast4 just to add insult to injury.
after conntacting fast4 they say they have chasesd it up with BT & have been informed it is due to the quality of my outside line & is not finacially feasable to fix it so 512k is about the best I can expect :crap:
could someone tell me of any similar situation or tell me if I'm being bulls**ted or if it could be something the engineer did?
what is the best course of action is.
(ps I,m aware of the problems fast4 are having lately but this goes back weeks)
sorry for the long post but I tried to get the whole story in!!!
thanks in adv'
Rich
Firstly I have never had a good dsl line,I have a long line from the exchange so the maximum I could get on my old dsl service was 1meg..bt announce adsl max,better for everyone??I think not!
at first I was getting 1.8 meg..fantastic.now my line connects at 512k during the week & 1.2 for the last 2 weekends & my ping for gaming is horrendous.
things seem to have gone down hill since I had a fault on my line a few weeks ago (telephone went completely)the BT engineer said I had 2 faults! one from the pole to my house & one underground 250ms away so of he trots to the green box & puts me on a new pair(whatever that means) fiddles about up the pole,puts me a new little white box & connection socket in the house,he also said he did a bit of a cheat with the wire to the white box so he didnt have to drill another hole but the phone was working fine & I got my internet back on after being without it for 5 days.
now my speeds are getting worse & to cap it off I'm with fast4 just to add insult to injury.
after conntacting fast4 they say they have chasesd it up with BT & have been informed it is due to the quality of my outside line & is not finacially feasable to fix it so 512k is about the best I can expect :crap:
could someone tell me of any similar situation or tell me if I'm being bulls**ted or if it could be something the engineer did?
what is the best course of action is.
(ps I,m aware of the problems fast4 are having lately but this goes back weeks)
sorry for the long post but I tried to get the whole story in!!!
thanks in adv'
Rich























