Quote ="hullbg"Standee what speed does it say he is likely to get on here karoo.co.uk/products/broadband/t ... ecker.aspx You can do various things to improve the speed slightly (removing ring wire, plugging into master socket etc) i presume these have been done as you seem to have a good grasp of computers in general.'" It says he can get an average of 6mb, I've done all the usual stuff as you suggested (and a few other things) but above 4mb is as good as it gets, the problem is KC have spent nothing on their infrastructure in the West Hull villages for ages, he's probably on copper wire to an ancient exchange that has had the bare minimum done to allow it to provide broadband.

Quote ="hullbg"Standee what speed does it say he is likely to get on here karoo.co.uk/products/broadband/t ... ecker.aspx You can do various things to improve the speed slightly (removing ring wire, plugging into master socket etc) i presume these have been done as you seem to have a good grasp of computers in general.'" It says he can get an average of 6mb, I've done all the usual stuff as you suggested (and a few other things) but above 4mb is as good as it gets, the problem is KC have spent nothing on their infrastructure in the West Hull villages for ages, he's probably on copper wire to an ancient exchange that has had the bare minimum done to allow it to provide broadband.

You are probably right but 1616 is nowhere near 6mb. Any idea what the router connection stats are?

It was hopeless a few months ago, but has improved a lot recently.

It was up to 3682 by the time we'd done some tinkering yesterday, I'll have to look at it myself when I am next up to see them, it's not easy talking someone over doing stuff over the telephone.

That is a lot better than 1616 but still poor in this day and age. Pointless ringing karoo because they just say the line is fine and thats the best you can get.
They wont be upgrading lines in the near future either, the only hope we have is if someone takes them over and opens us out to the rest of the country.

Sad really when you think not that long back we were number 1 in the country and all those in BT land were envious of us.

I'm HU15 and with BT. I've seen my speeds deteriorate from a consistent 4.5 to 5 download to 1.4 at peak times and maybe the low 3's later at night. BT say nothing wrong with pine they tested from their end at 6 whereas I tested using their checker at 1.3. They reckon the problem was at my side of the router so tried 3 other laptops all with same results. It's a big issue for me as I play xbox live so speed and bandwidth are important. Not happy been with them 4 years at least Karoo offer a gamer profile on ADSL2 that protects you at peak times. Waiting for one of those accelerator plates now to cut out the bell wire.

HU3


6896 Kbps
838 kbps
got 4 laptops running at same time ............

Which BT package are you on, how far from the exchange and which of their home hubs do you have, I got sent a new one with the accelerator, plugged it in and after a day I stuck the old one back in!

First thing to do is get rid of the terrible Thomson router.

He wont have the thomson on BT. The thomson router on karoo packages is truly awful though and should be reserved as an emergency router should your main one fail. You can pick up decent netgear routers off ebay for next to nothing now the DG834GT models work very well.

Was Thomson the god awful SpeedTouch one?

Does anyone use anything other than NetGear nowadays?

Cisco. Netgear and 3Com suck.

So, in your expert opinion, what should everyone be using, a couple of cans and some string perhaps?

just got a 9936, thats on my laptop via netgear wireless.

wahooooo

We find we have to reset the router every few days as it seems to leak speed otherwise.
regularly get 5M download in HU15.

Which package you on? (answer after the game of course!)

Karoo mid, for my postcode with adsl2 they say i can get upto 12mb

I use the Belkin N1 Vision its got an LCD display on the front telling you the upload and download speeds im getting

8mg d/l
538 u/l

its pricy though it cost me £130

13464 dl

4670 ul

HU12 8

not sure if this is Karoo though, id presume it is, but going through to our remote desktop servers, so they might help the speed up

They had the speedtouch a while back but that was just a usb modem AFAIK. They then introduced the Thomson 585 usb modem/router all in one. It does the job but you get some terrible results with it.

As for Solinus

Cisco is about the best you can buy but they are expensive.

Belkin are godawful nowadays they have really gone downhill

Netgear are the best low cost routers on the market and what 90% of home users are now using.

I'm on the unlimited option 3 package.Not sure how far from the exchange I am I think its about 3 miles away in North Cave. In terms of home hub I have the white vertical unit (not at home so can't look for the manufacturer) not the latest black gloss one. I think its down to peak times as I went on this morning and got 5.3mb download but between 4 and 8 all I can get is the paltry 1.3 to 1.5. BT say they don't prioritise usage like karoo (hence the benefit of a gamer profile). Still waiting on the accelerator plate to arrive and try that.

A colleague of mine reported a long series of calls to Karoo when he first got his broadband installed but only recieved dial up like connections. Eventually the help desk suggested he try removing his sky box from the phone line which resolved all issues. Just a hint for anyone on Karoo.

Ask him to contact their technical dept and ask for a "pair" changeover, it may improve the job for him, the pair he is on now may be as you say copper and old or wet but there are fibre in that area I believe

I can relate to that :

HU14

1624 and 694

3234 and 364

HU7 at 4:50 PM

not great !

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