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If you have just joined Sky your line will be on its training speed. You should have been advised of this in your activation letter. Post your stats for confirmation. The wireless problem is different. You should try changing the channel and mode in the router. Try No 13 for the channel and 54g Performance for the Mode. If you are in a heavily populated area, download and use Inssider from the link below. This will show you all the networks...

my main problem is my ping i think as it says i am getting roughly between 80 and 110 ms ping wherease i use to get roughly 40ms any ideas what to do to lower ping such as ringing up sky or anything else?

Post your router stats.

For that line attentuation I would expect a speed of 5-6mbps. Can you please connect your router to the test socket, if you have one and repost the stats from there. See How to test your ADSL in the Master Socket for details of the test socket.

I have recentley taken delivery of this new modem and plugged it all in, after which it worked fine when the laptop was sitting 2 inches away but if i move the laptop into another room or downstairs then the connection and speed whitter away to almost nothing,and trying to conect the PS3 whilst downstairs is a nightmare. I just carried out a speed rest whilst the laptop and modem were connected via an ethernet cable and the download speed was...

http://www.speedtest.net/result/607054956.png Post moved here from inappropriate thread. Please use http://www.skyuser.co.uk/speedtester/ to check your speed.

Quote: Originally Posted by biggscoob9 Im olny 1.7 miles from our exchange (as a crowe flys). And im only getting speeds of 1792 upload and 512 down load Connection Speed 2045 kbps 606 kbps Line Attenuation 53 db 32 db Noise Margin 13 db 18 db Is this the max i can get or do i have a problem I also game and im pinging around 68 to 78 You are only 3.8 KM from the exchange with line attenuation of 53db. There is scope for a little more say 3mb...

Im olny 1.7 miles from our exchange (as a crowe flys). And im only getting speeds of 1792 upload and 512 down load Connection Speed 2045 kbps 606 kbps Line Attenuation 53 db 32 db Noise Margin 13 db 18 db Is this the max i can get or do i have a problem I also game and im pinging around 68 to 78

Quote: Originally Posted by top10harry Would you mind running another test and posting the speed you get this time? Hi Harry, I have Firefox set to delete everything, including cache, upon exit. So that shouldn't be a problem. I have just run the test again with the following results: Down = 3.8Mbps, Up = 0.8Mbps And immediately after on the SkyUser test: Down = 12.9Mbps, Up = 0.88Mbps Retesting on Top 10 again gave even lower results...