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Has any one having problems with their pc on Forum?, mines is getting slower as if lots of people are going into same program or something like that. I have done the usual of cleaning up disc and fragmenting but still on Forum its slow.
 
Mine too - I expect the surveillance services are keeping an eye on the subservice antics of caravanners, and monitoring the traffic on this website! Must be all the mention of smoking, bombers, and maybe they've mistaken Aquaroll for Al Queda!
 
what security are you both running? Are running a webfilter? If so this could be a problem or you are haveing problems with traffic. Who are isp,s. And it will also depend on what meg you have could be you are wireless and you are dropping the signal, could be down to adverse waether conditions?
 
what security are you both running? Are running a webfilter? If so this could be a problem or you are haveing problems with traffic. Who are isp,s. And it will also depend on what meg you have could be you are wireless and you are dropping the signal, could be down to adverse waether conditions?
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yea same here was beginning to wonder if it would be quicker to put a comment in the post
 
what security are you both running? Are running a webfilter? If so this could be a problem or you are haveing problems with traffic. Who are isp,s. And it will also depend on what meg you have could be you are wireless and you are dropping the signal, could be down to adverse waether conditions?
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No, no filters, not wireless, and strangely it's just speeded up again! Proves they're listening in, and now worried that we've noticed! Like M and M I was planning a first class letter!
 
Evening folks,

Are you all on Bt lines, as i am on Virgin broadband via wireless connection ,with AVG anti virus version 7.5 not the free on line version,and the system appears to be running smoothly.

Asked the question about BT lines as my daughter is, depending how far away you are from the phone exchange the slower the broadband can be expecally at night when a lot of folks are using it.

Royston
 
Evening folks,

Are you all on Bt lines, as i am on Virgin broadband via wireless connection ,with AVG anti virus version 7.5 not the free on line version,and the system appears to be running smoothly.

Asked the question about BT lines as my daughter is, depending how far away you are from the phone exchange the slower the broadband can be expecally at night when a lot of folks are using it.

Royston
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Just to throw a spanner in the works i am on Bulldog and apparently they have some gizmo installed at many exchanges
 
Evening folks,

Are you all on Bt lines, as i am on Virgin broadband via wireless connection ,with AVG anti virus version 7.5 not the free on line version,and the system appears to be running smoothly.

Asked the question about BT lines as my daughter is, depending how far away you are from the phone exchange the slower the broadband can be expecally at night when a lot of folks are using it.

Royston
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Royston is correct. Most isp's use BT exchanges, And your signal and speed will differ. The only way not to have this problem is to have a seperate Firewire installed(super fast internet connection). Some isp's Virgin, ntl just to add a few do this. It also depends on how far away your exchange is, for instance, i am running on 4meg but my computer is only downloading @ 54mbps and i have a low signal. My exchange is quite faraway and i am at the bottom of the hill and this will effect it as i am old exchanged not new(Digital).
 
Royston is correct. Most isp's use BT exchanges, And your signal and speed will differ. The only way not to have this problem is to have a seperate Firewire installed(super fast internet connection). Some isp's Virgin, ntl just to add a few do this. It also depends on how far away your exchange is, for instance, i am running on 4meg but my computer is only downloading @ 54mbps and i have a low signal. My exchange is quite faraway and i am at the bottom of the hill and this will effect it as i am old exchanged not new(Digital).
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Diane,

You've totally confused local and wide-area networking in your post.

The connection between the exchange and your ADSL modem (or cable modem if you connect that way) will be rated at either 2, 4, or 8 megabits per second.

The wireless or wired home network you use to connect your PC to the home ADSL modem can be any speed upto 1000megabits, but most people will have a 100megabits wired network or a 11 or 54megabits wireless network.

Your report of a 54megabit connection is just the speed at which data is passed around inside your house - and not the speed of the connection outside your house.

And Firewire is a local high speed connection to external hard disk drives, cameras and video devices - and has nothing to do with the Internet.

Robert
 
Robert,

Some of the many reasons you could be suffering from a slow connection include:

1. Contention ratio - your connection to the ISP may be advertised as 2 or 8 megabit, but if you have a "domestic" contract that will be shared with a number of other people - typical contention ratios are 20:1 to 50:1 - and if they are all downloading loads of stuff when you are browsing - you will notice a slow down.

Commercial users can order different contention ratios of 5:1 to 10:1 - giving them higher performance (less sharing) for more of the time - but at a higher cost.

2. The ISP servers are busy - this could be due to maintenance or other housekeeping or just loading by users. All web-sites that you access would appear to be equally slow.

3. The web-site servers for one or two web-sites are busy - typically just that web-site appears slow - all others are fast - and that's a grin and bear it situation until other people stop accessing that site

4. The web-servers for that site are under-specified - so they are always slow to respond to requests and display pages. That's an infrastructure issue with the ISP - cheap ISPs are prone to this issue - cheap running costs, cheap servers

5. Your PC needs a clean out of cached files - but you've handled that already

Robert
 
I think Robert was indicating that this was a recent problem (not a long term one)- the slowdown seems to have got worse over the last couple of weeks, or mine certainly has. However, this morning at 6.10 am (sleepless night, needed a distraction) it's absolutely fine.
 
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