Horace
27-04-2007, 20:23
I had a visit from an engineer on Wednesday, my downstream power level was around -3 which his said was ok, I was under the impression that levels greater than 0 were in spec for QAM256. He swapped my modem out for a 255 to cure the rebooting problems, which it did , did a speed test at speedtest.net which came out at around 8 meg, I was happy as I hadn't even hit 5meg over the last 4 months.
Anyway, I noticed things started to get worse again Wednesday night and hoped it was just the temporary treacle problem we get on Teesside every month, it's been especially bad tonight with speedtest showing .5meg download speeds with upload almost outstripping download. I checked my modem levels again and they're now down to -9. How, in the space of two days have my signal levels dropped so rapidly?
The engineer also said there were long standing problems on Teesside which probably won't be fixed any time soon and advised me to stop paying for 10meg and go down to 4meg.
Anyway, I noticed things started to get worse again Wednesday night and hoped it was just the temporary treacle problem we get on Teesside every month, it's been especially bad tonight with speedtest showing .5meg download speeds with upload almost outstripping download. I checked my modem levels again and they're now down to -9. How, in the space of two days have my signal levels dropped so rapidly?
The engineer also said there were long standing problems on Teesside which probably won't be fixed any time soon and advised me to stop paying for 10meg and go down to 4meg.