Alternatives to adsl

We have just bought a house and moved in and out internet is terrible. 0.5mb upload. My partner is an academic and Im a student that both use cloud services to store our data but it take ages to upload. We have been used to fibre for the last few years (upload speeds that were faster than our current download speed) and have changed our internet usage accordingly. Im curious to know if there is any alternative such as fibre on demand (which I find a lot of conflicting information on) to our current predicament. We are using a raspberry pi to upload files so we dont have to leave our desktops running all night. We are currently on an exchange only connection and we are about 600 metres from the exchange as the cable lies ( I walked it out the other day ). I can also find no information on possible upgrades, well some confusing information, sometimes it says taking orders and other times says your screwed.

We are indeed connected to the master socket as there is only one socket anyways.
Here is the connection info
10:22:05, 13 Feb.
(166752.850000) PPP IPCP Send Configuration Request
10:22:03, 13 Feb.
(166751.020000) PPPoA is up - VPI: 0, VCI: 38 Down Rate=19937Kbps, Up Rate=999Kbps; SNR Margin Down=3.1dB, Up=5.6dB
10:22:03, 13 Feb.
(166751.000000) CHAP authentication successful
Download Spped (MBPS): 19.32
Upload Speed (Mbps): 0.81
Ping 33.13.
The ping may be a bit higher as this is a big house and Im using a Netgear "router" as a switch to connect stuff in my man cave. Shouldnt make too much difference tho.
BT BROADBAND AVAILABILITY CHECKER
Address xxxxxxxxxxx, GLASGOW, G41 5DD on Exchange IBROX
Featured ProductsDownstream Line Rate(Mbps)Upstream Line Rate(Mbps)Downstream Range(Mbps)Availability Date
WBC ADSL 2+
Up to 15
8.5 to 19
Available
WBC ADSL 2+ Annex M
Up to 15
Up to 1.5
8.5 to 19
Available
ADSL Max
Up to 7
6 to 8
Available
WBC Fixed Rate
2
Available
Fixed Rate
2
Available
Other Offerings
Copper Multicast
Available
As for the FTTPoD that is the info I was referring to. 600m would costt 1400 pounds to install and 456 pounds a year which is quite reasonable.

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I am having problems with my HH3 and need to replace it
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What about this one, its used by othe forum members?
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How to set up TimeCapsule (4th) to create own private (wired) network behind Airport Express (5th) that is set up to join existing wifi-network of fritz adsl modem/router?

I work in an office building with free Wifi to connect to the Internet. I want to be able to use this internetconnection, but at the same time I want to shield of my own wired network.
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Hajenius wrote:
Is there a better alternative? I'd rather not want to reset my TC every day.
You are using free internet.. so there is a price to pay.. that is convenience and non-ideal network setup.
The better alternative is to pay for your own connection. Then you are completely free of the possibility of others in the bullding seeing your connection. (as long as you secure the wireless).
But I think you are probably over worrying about public wifi.. if it is setup right.. ask the building admins.. it should be setup so each user cannot see another users connection. This is typical for most wifi setup and simply means you can see internet connection but nobody else on the connection. ie other wireless users.
Having a router with NAT makes it then more secure again and allows clients on your own network to interact with each other. But you can setup wireless to the free wifi for every client.. (depending on how many IP you are allowed).. and run a secondary network without internet access. This is easy for desktop etc where you have a wireless and a wired connection but less convenient for mobile devices.. unless you use a cloud connection and each client can link and share via that.
Have I made the explanation worse??
Think of it this way.. if you had 3 laptops.. all 3 could connect to the internet from the building wifi.. but they cannot talk to each other or share resources in local office. You can put resources out in the cloud, that can be shared.. but that adds traffic and most free services are not fast.
Now you can also plug all three into Time Capsule by ethernet.. and share local resources. Files, printers backup etc. This network is not connected to the internet at all. Each laptop has internet via free wifi and local connection.
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How do I connect my Homehub3 to the NTA5 ADSL Wall...

Hi, all.
I have a Homehub 3 in a spare room, and want to move it to improve my wireless coverage, at home.
I have space in my hallway next to where the ADSL comes into the house, and this would seem like a neat solution. Currently I have an 'ADSL Data Extension Kit' running upstairs to the spare room, and then a small blue cable from this into the ADSL port on my hub.
The NTE5 2 port wall socket that I have (says Openreach ADSL v1.0 on the front), has a left port for ADSL and the right for telephone. I need to connect this to my Homehub, ideally with a really short cable, as the Hub will be located literally six inches from the wall socket. Does anyone know which cable I need, and where I can buy one (eBay/ Amazon?)? My limited research suggsts the ADSL port will accept an RJ45 or RJ11 cable.
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Many thanks for your anticipated help.
Chris.
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chris_debian wrote:
Hi, all.
I have a Homehub 3 in a spare room, and want to move it to improve my wireless coverage, at home.
I have space in my hallway next to where the ADSL comes into the house, and this would seem like a neat solution. Currently I have an 'ADSL Data Extension Kit' running upstairs to the spare room, and then a small blue cable from this into the ADSL port on my hub.
The NTE5 2 port wall socket that I have (says Openreach ADSL v1.0 on the front), has a left port for ADSL and the right for telephone. I need to connect this to my Homehub, ideally with a really short cable, as the Hub will be located literally six inches from the wall socket. Does anyone know which cable I need, and where I can buy one (eBay/ Amazon?)? My limited research suggsts the ADSL port will accept an RJ45 or RJ11 cable.
Some thoughts:
1) I just have 'normal' speed broadband, so assume I can't run a cable from the wall socket to the 'BT Infinity' port on the router.
2) Typically the twin power socket that will feed the Hub, is almost level with the hall floor, and the BT power plug has the 3 pins at the top, not the bottom, so it is physically impossible to plug the power socket in. My initial thought is to get a short trailing socket, to get around this problem. Does anyone know of an alternative power adaptor that I could use with the Hub, which has a better thought out (or different) design?
Many thanks for your anticipated help.
Chris.
Hi there,
What you need is an RJ11 to RJ11 lead, but be careful of the cheap ones; invariably, even at the length you require, they're very poor quality.
If you go to that famous auction site and enter 261296967817 into the search bar, this will give you a good quality lead. Although the one I've indicated is 1m in length, if you email the seller, there's a fairly good possibility he can make you one in the length you require.
I hope this info helps.

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I use the built in sync function in the phone to sync directly between the phone and my Ovi account (calendar, notes, contacts).
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PIX 501 - Configure Alternative Route Outside on PIX's ATM2

Hello to all
i am trying to add a line to allow the PIX to use an alternative ADSL Line when the first goes down
Is it enought that i put a new line like this?
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Hello Stefano,
You are looking for Sla Monitor on the PIX/ASA:
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Regards,
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Alternative router settings to replace hh4

Hi all
I have recently purchased a Cisco rv220w router to replace my home hub 4. I have tried and tried but can't seem to get the router to receive an internet signal. I have used pppoe and changed the user name to that of my home hub.. I think one issue might be that my new router is asking me for a password and the hh4 doesn't have one?
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Can I replace a home hub with a decent adsl modem?

I have several PCs, laptops, an internet TV, a couple of apple TVs, ipads, phones etc in my house and am fed up with them not communicating properly.
So after reading how reliable they were, and given the fact I have somehow become an apple fanboi without meaning to, I opted for an airport extreme.
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I could live with this if it works, but it still causes issues - computer to computer communication is flawless, as I hoped, but the internet is patchy.
I am sooo fed up with this it is not true - not including the time wasted with homeplug networking & airport express too - I want to bin the POS that is the home hub and have complete control over my setup. I don't need a stupid broadband phone and I don't use FON!
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Cheers.
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I did take a quick glance at the manual and it seemed to do what you need, but it may be worth taking a closer look yourself, its on the TP-Link website.
The only issue I can possibly see, is the PPP authentication.
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I am not 100% sure whether that will bring up the PPP session. It would certainly do on an Infinity connection, but I have never tried it on an ADSL only modem.
I would imagine that is should work, as the modem will be bridging the connection from the ATM side.
You can use a PPPoE user name of [email protected] and a password of bt
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Web-services.xml: cannot set "charset" attribute for alternative encoding

Hi,
the definition of the charset attribute in tag web-service in a web-services.xml
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Sample:
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<web-service charset="ISO-8859-1" useSOAP12="false" targetNamespace="http://www.itpearls.com/unity/SubscriberData"
name="WebSubscriberDataCollector" style="rpc" uri="/WebSubscriberDataCollector">
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I consider this a bug. Is there a workaround for the charset definition of an
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Thanks for an comments
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Hi Neal
my server's locale is not en_US. The locale command delivers:
$ locale
LANG=de_CH.ISO8859-1
LC_CTYPE="de_CH.ISO8859-1"
LC_NUMERIC="de_CH.ISO8859-1"
LC_TIME="de_CH.ISO8859-1"
LC_COLLATE="de_CH.ISO8859-1"
LC_MONETARY="de_CH.ISO8859-1"
LC_MESSAGES="de_CH.ISO8859-1"
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and keeps complaining:
java.io.CharConversionException: Malformed UTF-8 char -- is an XML encoding declaration
missing?
My analysis: The Weblogic server seems to expect a UTF-8 compliant stream (due
to the current user.language property set to "de") regardless of the chosen configuration
possibilities proposed on the above mentioned link page.
Q: is this bug related to CR105388 on http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/notes/issues.html
Now I urgently need a workaround to make Umlaute contained in a web service request
working.
Thanks for any help
Manfred
"Manfred Sturm" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Hi Neal
OK, typo. But it doesn't work. I get the console output:
java.io.CharConversionException: Malformed UTF-8 char -- is an XML encoding
declaration
missing?
plus I get following stack trace from the web-service client:
javax.xml.soap.SOAPException: Failed to read a xml element from
Vorname_aou_AOU091 Name_aou_AOU091 Ort_äou_AOU091 091A 1091 Strasse_aou_AOU091
bbcs adsl sample string
at weblogic.webservice.tools.pagegen.SampleInstance.getJavaObject(SampleInstance.java:139)
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at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.ServletBase.invokeOperation(ServletBase.java:306)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.WebServiceServlet.invokeOperation(WebServiceServlet.java:312)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.ServletBase.handleGet(ServletBase.java:272)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.ServletBase.doGet(ServletBase.java:154)
at weblogic.webservice.server.servlet.WebServiceServlet.doGet(WebServiceServlet.java:232)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
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at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:387)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubImpl.java:305)
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at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:197)
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Alternatively, when using "-Dweblogic.webservice.i18n.charset=ISO-8859-1"
in
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<Oct 7, 2003 11:46:05 AM MEST> <Warning> <Management> <BEA-141087> <Unrecognized
property: webservice.i18n.charset.>
which results in the above stack trace when invoking on the web service.
I still need a workaround within weblogic server. I cannot change the
Solaris
server's locale settings.
Thanks for an comments
Manfred
"Neal Yin" <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Manfred,
There is a typo in code. But this should NOT affect any functionality
(charset attribute is working). Please contact support for a patch.
Thanks,
-Neal
"Manfred Sturm" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi,
the definition of the charset attribute in tag web-service in aweb-services.xml
descriptor gets lost, when deploying a web-service.
Sample:
Before deployment I defined:
<web-service charset="ISO-8859-1" useSOAP12="false"
targetNamespace="http://www.itpearls.com/unity/SubscriberData"
name="WebSubscriberDataCollector" style="rpc"uri="/WebSubscriberDataCollector">
After deployment the console states:
<web-service jmsUri="ISO-8859-1" useSOAP12="false" exposeWSDL="true"
targetNamespace="http://www.itpearls.com/unity/SubscriberData"
name="WebSubscriberDataCollector" style="rpc"uri="/WebSubscriberDataCollector">
So the value "ISO-8859-1" changed his master :-(
I consider this a bug. Is there a workaround for the charset definitionof
an
individual web-service?
Thanks for an comments
Manfred

Tiger Upgrade - No recognition of USB ADSL Modem

After upgrading to Tiger I had some problems with my internal hard drive (discussed elsewhere). As a safety measure I decided to make my external drive a boot drive and successfully installed Tiger. During installation I used the option to transfer all of the files and settings etc from my original boot drive and everything appears to have been transferred correctly except that the USB ADSL modem no longer synchronises (only the power light is illuminated on the modem, no DSL light) nor is recognised by 'Internet connect' or the System Preferences 'Network' settings. These show only the internal dial up modem and offer as alternatives only firewire or ethernet (not USB). On inspection, all of the relevant files appear to exist on my external drive (ie seems to be an exact copy of my internal drive) but I cannot connect to the internet. When I restart using my internal boot drive, everything is back to normal and I am immediately able to connect to the internet. I want to erase my internal drive to clear its problems and reinstall Tiger etc, but don't dare to do so until my external drive is functioning properly (including the internet connection). Any ideas?

Allan,
Many thanks for your help. I did not specifically upgrade the modem driver, but there is not a problem with my internal (normal) boot drive, so the driver seems to be okay. The only problem is that, even though I seem to have an identical set of software on my external boot drive, I cannot get to synchronise the modem (no DSL light) when running on the external drive.
However, all this will cease to be a problem once I connect my new router using ethernet. Unfortunately, I do not have any instructions on connecting using ethernet and have not used ethernet before. I uderstand that it is important to do things in the correct sequence, but do not know what that sequence is. I do know the connection code and password for my current ISP, but as they are not the suppliers of the router, they may not be able to guide me on the connection sequence. Are you able to help?

Is it worth purchasing an alternative router?

Just got fibre enabled last thursday and since last night, it was running pretty great. I've got the Infinity 2 package, so I was getting a sweet 74Mb Down & 18 Up.
Last night however, it had dropped, significantly, like - all the way down to 20 and nothing had changed in my router settings. Typically when I ping google.co.uk, I'd get 14 - 15 ms, last night, it was bouncing around to 250ms, which I didn't understand.
I also spend a lot of my time at home online gaming, and for the first time, I was rubber-banding like crazy. One minute I'm standing somewhere and it'd throw me back to where I was a few seconds earlier. Ping would usually be 20ms, then all of a sudden it'd throw me to 70ms and then drop back down again.
After reading the forums, I've gathered that it's potentially a problem with the HH5, and if so, then I don't really want it anymore, I'd much rather purchase an alternative, stable router. Though if it's not as simple as that, I'd be happy to listen to info!
But in all seriousness BT, please sort it out. Customers pay for the Infinity 2 package for a reason, dropping below speeds that Infinity 1 offer is not acceptable.
Also, currently not at home at this time so I can't provide any logs/information.

I have recently been upgraded from adsl to infinity 2 with unfortunately an ongoing issue of speed being less than half of that promised.
The facility I miss most on a home hub is the lack of remote management. I spend a fair time away from home and find it a real irritation that BT doesn't allow remote access to a hub. How can we change port forwarding or even check sync speeds or reset without access.
I haven't decided yet which router/VDSL modem to go for but the TP link seems good value for money, allowing USB media storage as well as an FTP server.
An Asus possibly does more, and if you are still not satisfied with the firmware supplied with it there are custom ones available with even more features.

Which ADSL Modem for Airport Express?

OK. This is simple... or so I thought.
Here's the situation: I have just subscribed to Demon's broadband service (in the UK) and I want to create an AirPort Express wireless network in my home. I have a Windows-based laptop and an iMac G5 (with an AirPort card factory-installed) that I wish to share this connection.
I know that the USB modem that Demon supply will be useless and that I need to buy an ADSL Ethernet modem to connect to the AirPort Express base station, but can anyone advise which one I need?
I've read loads on this matter and there seems to be some controversy surrounding which ADSL Ethernet modems work with AX, especially when wishing to connect more than one computer to the conenction. I'd be really grateful if anyone could tell me which ADSL Ethernet modem to buy to fulfil my wish!
Also, any recommendations on which wireless networking adapter card to buy for my non Wi-Fi laptop to work with the above set-up?
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My flatmate and I faced exactly the same dilemma two months ago, and while I can't give you a comparison of different brands, I can tell you that we ended up buying a SafeCom modem router, which works perfectly with our airport express, providing internet connectivity to two and sometimes three laptops at the same time.
I will warn you (and you may already have discovered this) that High Street electronics stores will pretend not to know what you are asking for if you say you want an ethernet-out device; they want to sell you non-Apple wireless transmitters.
The modem router we bought was far and away the cheapest alternative on the market (at £25), which doubtless contributed to the reluctance of retailers to dig it out of the dark corners of their topmost shelves for us. The set up was a breeze (as compared with the set up for the USB modem that came with our broadband service) and we haven't had any problems at all. No interruptions of service, no slowdowns, nothing.
(I'm not sure whether my user info indicates this, but I live in the U.K.)

ADSL Broadband With Time capsule

Hello could someone please help me?
I currently have ASDL Broadband using a netgear modem router that i want to remove and use the Time capsule, can this be done by pluging the phone line in or do i need to get a modem for the time capsule?
cheers steve

You can use either an Ethernet ADSL Modem or a combined ADSL Modem/Router.
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