Hello!
I've been using ADSLMax with BT for almost a year now.
Over the past few months, the homehub has been randomly disconnecting and then reconnecting with 228 down and 488 up. The connection doesn't noticeably go down, I just obviously notice a considerable loss of bandwidth, ask the router what the hell it's doing and then reset it. After the reset it works fine until it does it again. It's annoying but not annoying enough for me to spend hours on the phone to BT.
On a normal day I'll be getting a Sync of about 4512, perhaps over 5mb if I'm lucky.
About a day ago, bandwidth dropped to just about nothing. The homehub, unsurprisingly, was connected at 228 down again. After a restart it resynced at 4512, but still bandwidth was in the trough.
The BT Speedchecker tool has told me that I have an IP profile of 135kbps.... yes, 135kbps
Oh, and a throughput of 119kbps...... which dropped to 75 kbps when I was using the hubphone to our BT friends in India at 1am.
The router has had multiple restarts etc etc, and the nice Indian lady asked me to connect it directly to the master socket (Oh, by the way, my master socket is a British Telecom socket, not a BT one - yes there's a difference - and as such doesn't have the test socket). It's been connected and currently still running like a dog. It's syncing fine at 4.5-5mb after each restart.
Now, after reading around (yes mostly Kitz's site
) I'm gonna bet that I'm getting this poor bandwidth because of my IP profile being in the pot. Right?
My question is why or how did it get there, and how do I make sure IT NEVER EVER EVER EVER happens again?
I'm going to assume that it's got something to do with the ShitHub.... sorry, HomeHub, syncing at 228kbps? In which case, why the heck does it decide to do that, and what should I hack to stop it?
Some info:
The Homehub has always been connected through the same 15m extension cord, from the master socket, and then through a filter into the hub. I don't have any other telephony devices or connected sockets -anywhere-.
Any viruses or anything else I don't really want on my network won't get anywhere near it with the security I employ, so I'm not gonna be losing any bandwidth.
Cheers!
Rob