Sky BB - getting slower by the day

Ever since last weekend (when we had a 1-day unplanned outage, well
I hadn't planned it :-( ) my connections been getting worse.
Apart from it taking a nap at frequent intervals, where the connnection
just freezes for maybe 30 minutes, then pops back up, the speed had
dropped considerably.
I get the Max package and have, until recently, been getting IIRC
11025 Kb/s download speeds according to the stats page on the router.
This is corroborated by actual downloads of > 1MByte/s
I noticed during last week that things were not as they should be,
looking at the router status yesterday, it was reporting a download
speed of 3328Kb/s - today it's down to 3072Kb/s. At this rate I'll
have to unplug it in a couple of weeks as it'll be sucking data _out_
of my network. The router stats, however, are fantanstic: they show
an 18.5dB noise margin for d/l and 23.5dB for u/l - though at a paltry
412Kb/s

I have heard that this is all part of Sky's "improvements" - has anyone
else been improved recently, to the point were Sky have dropped your
speeds to less than 1/3rd what it was, but still charge you the same for
it?


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Peter Lynch <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: I have heard that this is all part of Sky's "improvements" - has anyone
: else been improved recently, to the point were Sky have dropped your
: speeds to less than 1/3rd what it was, but still charge you the same for
: it?

No - it is still easily the fastest (and cheapest) Broadband I have ever
had.

"Brian McIlwrath" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Peter Lynch <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
> : I have heard that this is all part of Sky's "improvements" - has anyone
> : else been improved recently, to the point were Sky have dropped your
> : speeds to less than 1/3rd what it was, but still charge you the same for
> : it?
>
> No - it is still easily the fastest (and cheapest) Broadband I have ever
> had.

I have no problems whatsoever with Sky BB? Are you 100% sure the problem is
not with your internal wiring?
When I first got Sky BB (March 2007) I had a torid time with frequent drop
outs. I tweaked my wiring and my connection has been faultless ever since.

Brian McIlwrath wrote:
> Peter Lynch <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>> I have heard that this is all part of Sky's "improvements" - has
>> anyone else been improved recently, to the point were Sky have
>> dropped your speeds to less than 1/3rd what it was, but still charge
>> you the same for it?
>
> No - it is still easily the fastest (and cheapest) Broadband I have
> ever had.

ditto

Gaz

On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:32:31 GMT, Peter Lynch <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>I have heard that this is all part of Sky's "improvements" - has anyone
>else been improved recently, to the point were Sky have dropped your
>speeds to less than 1/3rd what it was, but still charge you the same for
>it?

I must be doing something wrong...no complaints from me
about SkyBB.

Jones

"Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:32:31 GMT, Peter Lynch <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>I have heard that this is all part of Sky's "improvements" - has anyone
>>else been improved recently, to the point were Sky have dropped your
>>speeds to less than 1/3rd what it was, but still charge you the same for
>>it?
>
> I must be doing something wrong...no complaints from me
> about SkyBB.
>
> Jones



critcher said................................

try changing your dns server, go to http://openDNS.com
and follow the instructions, I find that sometimes their dns servers go a
bit slow.

"critcher" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news(E-Mail Removed)...
>> On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:32:31 GMT, Peter Lynch <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>I have heard that this is all part of Sky's "improvements" - has anyone
>>>else been improved recently, to the point were Sky have dropped your
>>>speeds to less than 1/3rd what it was, but still charge you the same for
>>>it?
>>
>> I must be doing something wrong...no complaints from me
>> about SkyBB.
>>
>> Jones
>
>
>
> critcher said................................
>
> try changing your dns server, go to http://openDNS.com
> and follow the instructions, I find that sometimes their dns servers go a
> bit slow.
>sorry mean't sky dns servers