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Yes, possibly. I should put the old router back on and see what is the hop after the 94. address.

200mhz processor and works 100% with dd-wrt. Note : if you dont know what dd-wrt is... avoid. I didn't but I looked it up and understand now. Not sure it would feature highly on my OAP in-laws requirements though. Want to leave things as vanilla as possible because whenever I fix something and the mother-in-law gets something wrong she blames me for having fiddled with it. Like the time I helped set the TV up for her and then she...

Have a look in the routers status page, what do you actually sync at on the ADSL line? You might connect at ~6mb (BT estimated 6mb for me, I sync at 8mb) but tiscali could be incapable of feeding you enough data even though the bandwidth is there. And in case you are wondering, with broadband you generally get what you pay for, and tiscali are cheap

Originally Posted by peterb what speeds do you get if you connect the PC directly to the router? You need to know what the line performance is like before you start diagnosing problems with the router. I connected the router directly to the PC last night and the speed was no better than the 2mb/s that i get with the strong wireless connection. Another interesting thing I noticed - as suggested, I changed my channel from 6 to 1 to separate...

All that waffle about how far the wires go from the exchange to me doesn't explain why my connection is 6.9Mb/s during the day and 0.3Mb/s at night other than more people are using it then. I'll check the modem sync thingy when I get home next week. I would like to point out that when I was on Orange I had 6.9Mb/s 24/7, I left them because they increased the price of the package from £19.99 a month to £24.99 with the excuse that...

What about this? Was looking for something else, but foudn this for £30 - Cisco bought Linksys so all the kit really has come a long way.

Originally Posted by barry2811 Have you tried connecting using the IPs? eg, \\192.168.0.5\share If you can ping with the IP and not the name, that's worth a try. Huzzah, this works. Thankyou for all your help guys.

Originally Posted by peterb I've had a think about this, and the fact that the interference on the phone line only apperas when the router is connected does tend to point the finger at the router - Looking like it. Originally Posted by peterb One other thought - is there a Sky box connected to the phone line? If so does it have a filter? Some of the Sky boxes did have problems with ADSL linesa, although I think the problem was fixed in...

I'll try plugging the two homeplugs into the same double socket on Monday and post findings

Originally Posted by mycarsavw If I use BT speedtester I get full speed back on the line within a few minutes until the next router power cycle when it's back to crap speed again. www.speedtester.bt.com Originally Posted by BlackKnight_UK BT Speedster is a rip off, you can achieve the same effect by disconnecting a wire in the phone socket! No idea what BT Speedster is, a car maybe?