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[roseway]

No disadvantage at all, apart from the fact that you could have a much higher upstream speed if it weren't capped.

[Bayardo]

No disadvantage at all, apart from the fact that you could have a much higher upstream speed if it weren't capped.

I've never seen or found it to be a problem having a comparatively slow speed, so far anyway.

Thank you for improving my somewhat scant knowledge of the how things work.

[sheddyian]

I've never seen or found it to be a problem having a comparatively slow speed, so far anyway.

If you're uploading photos to an online album, or uploading a YouTube video, or sending emails with large attachments, having a higher upload speed will be a noticeable boon! 

In theory you could double your current upload speed.

Ian

[Bayardo]

Thanks for the thoughts Ian, but I'm extremely averse to putting anything remotely private somewhere where it might be accessible to all & sundry. (paranoid!! moi??). The only things I am likely to upload are spreadsheets  under 1meg of census data (currently for Grimsby in 1871 ), and the occasional batch of jokes via email.

[Bayardo]

I've had my Netgear router running for about a week without any further problems with "drop-outs" after setting the "idle timeout" to 0 so I guess you were spot on Burakkucat . I'm now on my back on my Billion which is set to "connection always on" & idle timeout at 0 & all has going well for a couple of days.

Thanks to all of you for your help

Bayardo

[burakkucat]

Excellent. That reads as a job well done.

Thank you for updating us with the current situation. 

[Bayardo]

Did I speak a bit too soon?

I've just checked my logs to find that there have been 2 drop-outs since I put the Billion back on.
One (lost-carrier) at 04:21 today after 25 minutes short of 2 days uninterrupted connection, and another (port-error)
at 04:47 on the 15th after 1day 15 hours continuous.

It's not a problem as I'm horizontal at that time, but it does seem a bit odd.

[burakkucat]

One (lost-carrier) at 04:21 today

I'll assume that was a loss of Sync event. It could, of course, have been caused by overnight engineering work. 

another (port-error) at 04:47

That is a peculiar one. 

[Bayardo]

I've just checked my logs and there was no drop-out last night. It shows as being up for 28hrs so far.