RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread George Eycott
You may be too pessimistic. If I were in your situation I would be speaking to the developer now. Good broadband connection speed is a very significant criterion for house buyers; in the same order as good local schooling. If the development is significant the developer will move BT where

RE: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread George Eycott
Wander off to google and find the website of your county council/BT/BDUK setup. You may find that FTTC will be arriving in the not too distant future. Our exchange serves 1150 odd residential and 99 business's (according to SamKnows), FTTC is being installed under the BDUK funding and I've

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Dennis Smith
That reminds me when I was on good old dial-up. You had to wait until the US started to go to sleep to play on some Quake servers. The lag was awful until then. We didn't have very many servers here in the UK then. I ended up getting ISDN because ADSL was never going to happen in BT's words,

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 18/11/2014 19:01, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In that case, I'd better not mention the 156Mbps downloads and 11.6Mbps uploads I get from Virgin here in Greater Manchester. My 60 Mbps connection is also a Virgin one; what actual download

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Jim web
In article 546c7cb5.70...@soulman1949.com, Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: On 18/11/2014 19:01, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In that case, I'd better not mention the 156Mbps downloads and 11.6Mbps uploads I get from Virgin

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Owen Smith
Did anyone check if your mysterious line drops and restarts coincided with the shifts of any particular cleaner? You know, the one that unplugged the dslam in order to plug the hoover in (don't laugh, crap like this happens). -- Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net Cambridge, UK On 19 Nov 2014,

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Peter S Kirk
On 19 Nov 2014 at 12:57, Jim web Jim web w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: For some years I've had a baffling behaviour where the connection is dropped once a day. BT and my ISP monitored this and confirmed the connection from them to my router was being lost and then refound a few seconds later,

OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:57:30 + (GMT), Jim web wrote: Be interested to hear if anyone else has had the same sort of weird behavior that seems to be phased with sunset! ADSL is affected by interference from MF broadcast stations. During the day the ionosphere is wrong for the long distance

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 08:20:31PM -, Peter S Kirk wrote: On 18 Nov 2014 at 18:46, George Eycott George Eycott geo...@eycott.co.uk wrote: 2Mb/s download, yep we get that OK until the schoolbus pulls up in the village in the afternoon then 10 minutes later everything slows to a crawl.

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Alan Milewczyk
On 19/11/2014 15:08, Dave Liquorice wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:57:30 + (GMT), Jim web wrote: Be interested to hear if anyone else has had the same sort of weird behavior that seems to be phased with sunset! ADSL is affected by interference from MF broadcast stations. I used to be a

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Jim web
In article 57d011c2-ea1b-41e2-8e51-2c20f6e5a...@cantab.net, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: Did anyone check if your mysterious line drops and restarts coincided with the shifts of any particular cleaner? You know, the one that unplugged the dslam in order to plug the hoover in (don't

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 November 2014 15:08, Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: ... What is a bit odd about your fault is the fairly regular timing. Sync during the day could well be way above what it can do at night hence the drop at sunset (though that seems a bit early). In the morning the reduced

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Jim web
In article e1xr6sv-0006en...@bombadil.infradead.org, Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:57:30 + (GMT), Jim web wrote: Be interested to hear if anyone else has had the same sort of weird behavior that seems to be phased with sunset! ADSL is affected by

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Jim web
In article 546ca966.25160.4276...@peter.kirk.isauk.biz, Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: On 19 Nov 2014 at 12:57, Jim web Jim web w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: For some years I've had a baffling behaviour where the connection is dropped once a day. BT and my ISP monitored this and

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-19 Thread Sharon Kimble
Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net writes: Did anyone check if your mysterious line drops and restarts coincided with the shifts of any particular cleaner? You know, the one that unplugged the dslam in order to plug the hoover in (don't laugh, crap like this happens). I had the unfortunate

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Dave Liquorice
On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:46:02 +, Colin Law wrote: I know RF interference at night can cause a resync to a slower speed but in my experience it will not automatically resync in the morning again, but will stay at the slower speed, so it will not need to slow down again the next night.

Re: OT MF interference and ADSL {Was: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic}

2014-11-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 November 2014 21:43, Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 16:46:02 +, Colin Law wrote: I know RF interference at night can cause a resync to a slower speed but in my experience it will not automatically resync in the morning again, but will stay at the