Sky - Fast downloading, sloooow web-browsing

Hi

Anyone else noticed this? I'm on an 8Mb package and when I download I get
between 6 - 6.5Mb/s, however when I'm browsing the net it's dog-slow, it's
slow when receiving the response from pages and it's slow to download the
content from pages.

Any ideas why?!?

Thanks
Kev

On 10 Sep, 14:10, Mantorok <n...@none.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Anyone else noticed this? I'm on an 8Mb package and when I download I get
> between 6 - 6.5Mb/s, however when I'm browsing the net it's dog-slow, it's
> slow when receiving the response from pages and it's slow to download the
> content from pages.
>
> Any ideas why?!?
>
> Thanks
> Kev

I am having the exact problem. Sometimes i cant get to google without
like 1000 refresh's. Happening since friday. Have no idea why though.
i was having problems with downloading as well speed jumping from 20kb
to around 300kb(connection thorughput normally is 2.8mbps.).

> On 10 Sep, 14:10, Mantorok <n...@none.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Anyone else noticed this? I'm on an 8Mb package and when I download I
>> get between 6 - 6.5Mb/s, however when I'm browsing the net it's
>> dog-slow, it's slow when receiving the response from pages and it's
>> slow to download the content from pages.
>>
>> Any ideas why?!?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Kev
> I am having the exact problem. Sometimes i cant get to google without
> like 1000 refresh's. Happening since friday. Have no idea why though.
> i was having problems with downloading as well speed jumping from 20kb
> to around 300kb(connection thorughput normally is 2.8mbps.).
>

I've had this problem since I was connected, like I say the downloads (from
newsgroups) is nice and fast, the web-browsing is slower than my last 2Mb
connection.

Have you tried rebooting your router? For some reason that seems to give
it a kick up the arse - but why should we have to do that?! It's ridiculous.

Kev

Hi
I am on a 8 meg package with SKY and i am recieving less than 2 meg
and when i am
browsing the net it is really slow

any reasons why ?

many thanks
shaf

On 10 Sep, 15:56, Mantorok <n...@none.com> wrote:
> > On 10 Sep, 14:10, Mantorok <n...@none.com> wrote:
>
> >> Hi
>
> >> Anyone else noticed this? I'm on an 8Mb package and when I download I
> >> get between 6 - 6.5Mb/s, however when I'm browsing the net it's
> >> dog-slow, it's slow when receiving the response from pages and it's
> >> slow to download the content from pages.
>
> >> Any ideas why?!?
>
> >> Thanks
> >> Kev
> > I am having the exact problem. Sometimes i cant get to google without
> > like 1000 refresh's. Happening since friday. Have no idea why though.
> > i was having problems with downloading as well speed jumping from 20kb
> > to around 300kb(connection thorughput normally is 2.8mbps.).
>
> I've had this problem since I was connected, like I say the downloads (from
> newsgroups) is nice and fast, the web-browsing is slower than my last 2Mb
> connection.
>
> Have you tried rebooting your router? For some reason that seems to give
> it a kick up the arse - but why should we have to do that?! It's ridiculous.
>
> Kev- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Restarting it does help for the first 30 secs but i ge tthe same
problem. The SNR seems to be fine. I had the same problem when i was
connected but i assumed that was because of the DSLAM setting the line
rate which was double what it is now. Its been better today.

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> Hi
> I am on a 8 meg package with SKY and i am recieving less than 2 meg
> and when i am
> browsing the net it is really slow
>
> any reasons why ?
>
> many thanks
> shaf
>

How much do you pay, as that determines what type of equipment you are
connected to? £5 per month and you are on Sky's own, £17.99 and you are
using BT resold to Sky.

acdeag <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

: How much do you pay, as that determines what type of equipment you are
: connected to? £5 per month and you are on Sky's own, £17.99 and you are
: using BT resold to Sky.

That's not foolproof! For the 6 months or so before an Exchange becomes LLU
enabled Sky offer "Sky Connect" (which is the name of their BT Product) for
£5/month as well!

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Hi
> I am on a 8 meg package with SKY and i am recieving less than 2 meg
> and when i am
> browsing the net it is really slow
>
> any reasons why ?

Could be lots of reasons. How long is a piece of copper?

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Abo

Abo wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>> Hi
>> I am on a 8 meg package with SKY and i am recieving less than 2 meg
>> and when i am
>> browsing the net it is really slow
>>
>> any reasons why ?
>
> Could be lots of reasons. How long is a piece of copper?

Or even a piece of aluminium?