Internet

We've finally made the leap, and should be ditching our "Maximum Speed" ADSL from Orange and moving to fibre optic cable this Friday! So, here's one last look at our "up to 20MB!"

Been a while, so here's a random speedtest:

Seems they've worked on the lines a bit... after a total disconnect where I powered off the router for a bit, reconnecting to this seems to mean they actually improved the connection for once instead of it slowing down...

As to be expected, our connection gradually has been getting worse... looking at the speedtest from over a year ago we had 8m down, 800k up... and now this:

This is of course after a couple days of a very "moody" connection, and bad lag everywhere.

Don't think I have much more to say other than... maximum speed my ass!

It makes me laugh to think that this is what they consider maximum speed ADSL2+



To be fair, that server was 3x further than the local one... still results are crap, and the upstream is unstable.

Well it's been a while, and I thought I'd give another speedtest to see how our "Maximum Velocidad" ADSL is doing...

Noticed a few resets lately and thought I'd check out our connection, turns out they cut our downstream quite a bit... That's what we get for being good customers and not telling them to piss off after all the issues we've had in the past... Maximum Speed my ass...

Been a while, so I thought I'd give the speedtest a go to see how our "up to 20Mb" ADSL is doing... here's the results

Well I have to say, this is by far the worst "service" I've ever had from an ISP. I've tried to be patient, I've given more than fair time each time they've had issues. It takes FOREVER for them to react, and even when they do it seems to be a case of the left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing. The call centers are useless. They run you through a useless list of items (which I told them I had already tried several times before we called) then they claim your PC must be infected with trojans.