some of your speeds are really impressive. I'm happy with mine except for the occasional outage (very occasional)

I. like carguy, find it interesting where you all hail from.

My line had reset due to errors. It seems the extension I have going to the router is no good, and the router itself is a dinosaur. The Sky engineer I spoke to said he didn't know any of these were still working!

So a new router is on the way and will have to go downstairs with a wireless connection to the pc upstairs. When that is done, the download speed here will triple

lol I've been downloading Elemental today. This first 75% took 3 hours, the last 25% 12 minutes...

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Fiber Optic.

Ok, this is now the maximum my phone line will support until my nearest BT exchange goes fibre op

I dumped the wireless idea and ran some cat5 to the pc. I feel safer with wireless turned off.
At least it's a lot better than it was

Well I switched ISP a couple of weeks ago and I'm now getting better speeds....

It could still be better, though.  I'm still using a 2Wire router with Bigpond firmware which seems to be a bit of a bottleneck, but that should improve later today when I pick up my new Netgear router.  My ISP tells me to expect d/l speeds of up to 18 to 20 mb/s without the 2Wire POS impeding things... besides, they don't offer support for 2Wire products anyhow.

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With the new router...

However, this was during peak time and I can expect a little better when the water has drained from the junction box outside.  Whenever it rains for a couple of days that fills with water and some line interference is experienced.  What I should do is get my neighbours together and get onto the telco to fix it.... to install a better drainage system, etc.