Recommend Me a Router

[Black Hole]

I presume you have tried restarting the router?

Not yet. I'll do that later, if it shows no sign of recovering by itself.

 

[prpr]

if it shows no sign of recovering by itself

They rarely recover without manual intervention. Re-syncs don't happen when interference goes away or line conditions improve.
Sometimes the target SNR margin gets bumped up by the exchange equipment and requires intervention by your ISP to reset it (they hate it when you tell them this, and when you know more than they do).

 

[Black Hole]

Back to normal after a reboot. Annoying.

 

[Deleted member 473]

Faulty router.

Those ping results were amazing!

 

[Black Hole]

 

[Trev]

Click the image to see the full size version???? Why would I want to do that for an image that's too big to fit on my screen anyway, and posted by someone who is always first out of the trap when peeps could post in a code field, but don't.

 

[Black Hole]

It would be nice to have a "small | medium | large" image insertion option, like some forums I could mention. Unfortunately the only options we have are the full size image (which is reduced to the user's browser width, if larger) or "thumbnail" (which doesn't cut it in this case). However, what I can do (now I'm on my PC), is reduce the resolution of the images and re-insert.

 

[Black Hole]

Happy now?

 

[prpr]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articles/33092511

I see Brian has made it on to there.

 

[Brian]

It must have been warm, as I'm not wearing my hat and scarf.

 

[Black Hole]

It's gone slow again My PC wasn't on overnight, so I don't have the history.

 

[Black Hole]

...but the router stats are OK. This is some kind of slow-down due to other factors (I ran the test again and got similar).

 

[Deleted member 473]

Request a line reset, and send bt those images. It will cost nothing.

 

[Black Hole]

Back to normal again.

I don't understand what a line reset can do when there are times it's working normally.

 

[Deleted member 473]

OK, don't then.

 

[MikeSh]

I don't understand what a line reset can do when there are times it's working normally.

We often don't know why Turn it off and turn it on again works, but it's always worth trying.

 

[Black Hole]

OK, don't then.

Well, I will if I can find a way through their maze to the minotaur.

 

[Black Hole]

No Internet when I got going this morning, not just slow but non-existent. Router reported no connection. Rebooted the router, still no connection - until suddenly it sprang to life shortly thereafter, and SpeedSmart is reporting 2.39Mbps (along with more intrusive advertising than the app used to carry!).

 

[Trev]

You deffo seem to have a problem with your router/exchange line or they rebooted the exchange end?

 

[Black Hole]

I'm not blaming the router, this line has never been very good. I don't know enough about it to postulate whether the reboot somehow sparked the other end to life after a short delay or whether it is a coincidence. I'm not very keen on postulating coincidences.