Well, of course I can't tell you what is wrong but I met an interesting event a few weeks back. My DSL connection was really slow. Finally my daughter called Verizon and, since she didn't have a clue what they were talking about, put me on the line. They had me hook my machine direcly to the cable modem and sign on to their speed test site. The speed went to full speed immediately. I could not believe it but there was no doubt it was my router. I got a new router and my daughter then asked me, "Could it be because Conner (my grandson) pulled it onto the floor a couple of times?" So, don't rule out that it could be your router. Hook your computer directly to the modem and test the speed. You, too, might be surprised! Chuck
Question... how long are you guys taking to (dl)i.e. torrent this to your boxes? This copper wire dsl ( BellSouth) ''torrent" has been going since noon yesterday.. and still says it has mover than 7 hrs to go.. seems to me I could have downloaded this thing directly faster than that!
Just curious.. there seems to be a major problem w/ BS dsl in the whole state of Florida, which they once blamed on ( take your choice ) fiberglass wires , and distance from a tree that was designated the limit of the service ( I kid you not at all ) And currently they blame on weather, corruption of the modem ( they supply ) or maybe the wires or da dadah DAH! Linux ... somehow linux or the power of the wires is "frying the modem". Call me crazy, I don't buy it.. and in this case copper wired to the house is supposed to ensure that we are getting their fastest thru put ; we are in the center of the area they serve w/ this DSL system on our street. and as my results above show, w/ only my email account picking up the mail every 2 hrs during daytimes and 6 hrs at night, I I find it silly for them to blame the OS.. I don't see how anything is frying the modem, their favorite "fixit" idea is to unplug the modem for a few secconds and replug everything back in.. or get rid of our router and plug the computers directly into the modem, rather than into the router.. DuH! Don't see how that is going to speed things up any.. didn't help before when we just had the router and no modem needed..