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Every afternoon my normally 4-5Mbps broadband connection goes to sleep at 3 minutes after 4 - ie just after the school bus has dropped off the kids from the local secondary school. At the moment I am getting between 25 and 100kbps and even a page of RRSport takes an age to down load, forget down-loading anything fro iPlayer - just now I was downloading a programme and had 9 minutes left to go, school gets out and now that 9 minutes has become 4hrs! School kids should be reading books not downloading their favourite music tracks from iTunes..............

I must be becoming a grumpy old man ............... 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

18-21's are always welcome at www.boobies.com  L322 Big Daddy SUPERCHARGED 5.0 Autobiography - Here & Now!

5 series for the miles

RRS S/C factory built HST - Gone

45 others have been and gone!

Then how would I source parts for my 90? Tim, your just getting grumpy!

4-5 MBs? I'd be dreaming if I got that much!  Maverick off disco3!
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so do I Mav, every night between 4pm and midnight! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

See if you can switch to a company that offers better ratio's for line:user

NP The problem is I am about as far as you can get from the village exchange without being outside the village and all the kiddies live between my house and the exchange. We also have no fibre optics yet, it's a good old copper-wire line between the houses and exchange here. My parents live next door to the exchange and get download rates I can only dream of! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Distance is the killer for DSL services, but as Nick says worth seeing if your ISP can put you on a lower contention ratio service - might cost an extra few quid a month, but worth it. I am with Plusnet and use their 20:1 product, much more responsive than their 50:1 service which is what I started out with many moons ago. 

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Tim the other thing worth looking at is the BT Broadband Accelerator called I-Plate.
It replaces your existing phone socket face plate and has some noise reduction circuitry
that reduces background line noise (nothing you'd actually hear on the line) and increases
the speed of your broadband connection. I was given one free by my friendly BT Engineer
at work but after installing it and seeing my broadband speed leap from an average of 3.5 meg
to 7 meg! I have to say I think it really does work

Here's a link to a review:-

http://www.techradar.com/reviews/pc-mac/ne...594/review 2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
2013 Evoque 5 Door Pure Tech SD4 - Orkney Grey with Panoramic Roof (Mrs E's new baby)

GONE - RRS - 3.0 TDV6 HSE - Santorini (2010)
GONE - RRS - 2.7 TDV6 HSE - Java Black (2007)
GONE - Porsche Boxster S - 3.2 - Black

Thanks for those suggestions - I am already with Plusnet as my ISP and will see where I can find this plate you speak of Endjin 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Save you the trouble searching for I-Plate.

You can buy them here:- http://www.broadbandbuyer.co.uk/Shop/ShopD...uctID=7256

Or direct from BT. 2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
2013 Evoque 5 Door Pure Tech SD4 - Orkney Grey with Panoramic Roof (Mrs E's new baby)

GONE - RRS - 3.0 TDV6 HSE - Santorini (2010)
GONE - RRS - 2.7 TDV6 HSE - Java Black (2007)
GONE - Porsche Boxster S - 3.2 - Black

I'm in town tomorrow so will try Maplin who also stock the i-Plate 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Tim in Scotland wrote:

I'm in town tomorrow so will try Maplin who also stock the i-Plate

Cool, Hope it helps M8

One thing I forgot to mention is that you may see an immidiate improvement but normally it takes a few days of use to get the best improvement, Not too sure of the exact reason but it's something to do with the way the BT exchange calculates what bandwidth to allocate to you and this is a dynamic function so can take a few days for their systems to see that your line speed can be increased --- Or something like that -- I'm sure you will find a highly techie explanation on the web if you want to know the exact details.  2013 Discovery HSE Luxury - 3.0 SDV6 - Santorini Black
2013 Evoque 5 Door Pure Tech SD4 - Orkney Grey with Panoramic Roof (Mrs E's new baby)

GONE - RRS - 3.0 TDV6 HSE - Santorini (2010)
GONE - RRS - 2.7 TDV6 HSE - Java Black (2007)
GONE - Porsche Boxster S - 3.2 - Black

Must be a common problem - Maplin in Glasgow was sold out yesterday! At least the Defender battery got a bit of a charge up on the 36mile round trip! 2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

Picked one up this afternoon and already I see a vast improvement. Normally at this time of the evening I am lucky to see 100kbps,more like 50-80kbps - I'm now getting 500-900kbps with spikes to 1.3mbps!  2020 Pangea Green 1st Edition D240 New Defender 110 is here and loving it
2018 Melting Silver Mini Countryman PHEV - soon to be replaced
2015MY Corris Grey SDv6 HSE Dynamic, the best car I have ever owned, totally reliable only a cou0le of rattles in 3 years, now no longer in my care
Also in my garage is a 1996 TDi300 Defender 90 County HT made into a fake CSW

On the subject of broadband speeds, anyone any ideas why my neighbour right next to me gets 11meg speed yet I only get 5.5 meg?? Only difference is hes with BT (doesnt have the plate thingy) and Im with O2! Am I being cynical thinking that BT "strangle" the data speeds to make their product look the best?? Current, M135i in Estoril Blue with more extras than the cast of Ben Hur.

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