New ISP

Which Internet provider are you using?

Gordon

I hope it's not BT.

What did you really expect?

I went from 2Mb to 15Mb+ to the exchange (copper ADSL, not fibre) but iPlayer can still pause at busy times.

MBQ

BT.

So all the ads we see on TV etc are lying?

The pipes can be as big as you like, it's then up to how many bits/sec they shovel in at the other end.....

That's what I thought. But today, the car forums I look at are slower than ever. Two are UK, one, US.

It's still a contended service. You are sharing a fixed bandwidth with god knows how many others who may chose to take their share.

If the isp's kit or the links are busy - no pommes frites. A less contended service would perform better but would be more expensive.

When all's said and done the thing is...

Are you getting your share ?

DerekG

Bottleneck at the PC? Naff network card?. For web pages rendered on some PCs, there's too much junk (flash mainly) running in the background and sometimes not enough CPU grunt. Raise the incoming bandwidth and it's not really used.

For uploads & downloads, and use of streaming things inside applications I'd expect there should be a clear difference, even if it's from pipes filled by BT.

Also it should be possible to be doing multiple web things at once. Someone watching internet TV, another downloading smutty images, someone else showing another their frillies on webcam. Isn't that's what on those BT TV commercials these days tempting folks to sign on? ;-)

It took you a long time to work that one out!

And who in any given case, 'they' are

My websites run like greased weasel s*it compared with - say - the Daily telegraph, which has so many links to so many sites that are required just for a single page! that it takes forever no matter how fast the link is.

Don't think so. Unless all four are bad. ;-)

Yes - I've yet to try it on streamed stuff. Must remember and check the PVR on iPlayer.

Couldn't you have just switched physical provision from ADSL to FTTC? Always assuming you were happy with TalkTalk...

The marketing doesn't make it clear that you don't *have* to use BT as the ISP over a FTTC service. But then it's not in any bit of BT's interest to do that.

True, but if your pipe can't carry the required bit rate you are stuffed either way!

Have you got adblock loaded in your browser - amazing the amount of crap saves downloading and looking at ;-)

I was getting stutters on flash players then I noticed it was defaulting to a mere 100K buffering. right click on the video and set up 'unlimited'

I was badly caught out in on-line game when my timed backup screwed the internet connection...nearly got killed by a fluffy rabbit!

yeah. I have. BUT its a faff to set up.

I do it for sites I really use a lot or sites that are SO slow..

No need to do any setting up if you subscribe it to a block list.

Go to filter preferences to configure a filter list provider.

Enchanted Rabbit with the Carrot of Power or The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog?