Should I expect 50meg?

[jimmybomb]

Had internet upgraded to 50meg last wednesday & have been
monitoring the speed on several websites since.

The most I have ever seen is 23 meg with A 1.6meg upload speed.
Is there any basic things I can do to improve this, as I think it's
a bit poxy to be honest. :mad:
I know some of the guys on here get pretty much 50 meg,
do you all have fancy new computers, because mine is about 5 years old will that affect the speed much?
I have tried the tests at all times 8 in the morning, 8 at night & 12 at night
is when I check it normally.
In another post somebody said plug the modem straight into the computer without the router. When I do this the computer saya it is renewing the ip address and never does so I can't get it to work?

[Stabhappy]

When connecting directly, turn the modem off and back on after you've connected it. The device it's connected to (in this case either router or PC) has a unique "mac address" which the modem uses to generate the IP address, which is why you need to cycle it.

[jimmybomb]

thanks mate all working.
still rubbish speeds though this is probably not best time to try it

[jb66]

Have you ran tcp optimiser if your using xp

[jimmybomb]

Wow that looks a bit technical, are there any default settings which work?

[jb66]

Hope this helps

http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginmedia/50mbsupport/optimisation.php

[jimmybomb]

If set the slider to 50meg on the general settings page then press optimal button at the bottom.
is that a good place to start?

[jb66]

Yeah that sounds fine, I would just push it to max then hit optimal then modify all network s and then reboot pc. The engineer should have done this for you

[jimmybomb]

Jesus christ you really are a superstar jb.
Am getting 47meg now.

Cheers fella

[jb66]

Glad it's sorted :)