BT Infintiy lack of speed

My broadband speed has dropped drastically oner the last week! Just done three speed tests the highest was 1.69mbps. It was in the region of 76mbps. Apart from the usual suspects all of which I have checked what other reasons could there be for such a massive drop in speed?

I would expect someone else to be using your bandwidth, but could be a fault on your line. Have you recently disconnected/connected your modem a lot recently?
Also, we need to see your IP Profile. To get your IP Profile follow these easy small steps!
1. Go to www.speedtester.bt.com
2. Click on ADSL & FTTC (Fbire to the cabinet) diagnostics)
3. Enter your telephone number, leave service ID blank (not required)
4. Click submit, confirm your telephone number when prompted
5. Let it test your broadband connection
6. Copy the download and upload results including the IP Profiles for both
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Slow speeds for last 6 weeks

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Connection time
6 days, 20:52:47
Downstream
8,128 Kbps
Upstream
448 Kbps
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VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
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Modulation
ITU-T G.992.1
Latency type
Fast
Noise margin (Down/Up)
15.9 dB / 29.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
17.0 dB / 11.5 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
19.8 dBm / 11.5 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local)
0
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the quiet line test wouldnt work on my home handset, neither will btspeedtest through the net keeps going to cannot display webpage . on speedtest.net im getting a ping of 26, download speed of 1.96 mbps and an upload of 0.38mbps.i tried my spare home hub and that reached the same speeds, new ethernet cables just to be sure the line goes into a micro filter then directly into the wall socket, i was quiter happy with the speed i had [ around 7 meg] it just suddenly dropped with no change to anything inside the house , hopefully you can help , thanks again for your time and effort
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Hi guys,
I am hoping that someone will be able to explain to me my lack of speed with BT Infinity. When this was first installed in November I was enjoying fast internet browsing, downloading and streaming speeds. Using speedtests I was getting approx. 35Mb for download, however this has now diminished to a lowly 0.5Mb or less. I have applied for the new faster BT Infinity from when I first received it and am seeing no different to the speed.
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I have tried to set the wireless set-up for dual band and this seemed to cause more problems and have since moved back to single band for the wireless however, I'm still struggling to maintain the speeds that I had back in November.
I set a twitter message to BT and was asked to run their speedtest which indicated I was getting 0Mbps for download and 0.37Mbps for upload and also similar speeds from the thinkbroadband and speedtest websites. I'm now at a loss as to what I need to do in order to get my speeds back up as to what they were originally.
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I no longer have the IP profile for that particular instance, however I have run the test again today and this is the IP profile from the BT speedtest:
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Then use Camera Raw 4 and be done with it...if Lightroom doesn't fit in your workflow, it's foolish to try to force it in. That's why there's Camera Raw with Bridge and Photoshop."
original post:
http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc632a8/0
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http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx/.3bc4b6d9/0
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Help very sudden drop in speed

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I have tried the following:
1) connected straight to master socket (inside cover)
2) different extension cord
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Info From Hub:
ADSL line status
Connection information
Line state
Connected
Connection time
0 days, 0:26:13
Downstream
9,586 Kbps
Upstream
1,164 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
PPPoA
Modulation
ITU-T G.992.5
Latency type
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up)
3.1 dB / 4.8 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
41.5 dB / 18.9 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
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Loss of Framing (Local)
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Loss of Signal (Local)
3
Loss of Power (Local)
0
FEC Errors (Down/Up)
1049542 / 4294967148
CRC Errors (Down/Up)
15 / 2147480000
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
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Error Seconds (Local)
19

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1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download Speed
74 Kbps
0 Kbps
7150 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
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921 Kbps
0 Kbps
1164 Kbps
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How can I add more than 4 users in ichat?

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HI,
4 people total is the Limit.
Audio only chats would get you a total of 10.
These limits apply in version up to and including Messages in Mountain Lion.
There has been Mebeam in the past.
It has been called Koowy at one stage and then changed it's name back and currently seems to be called CuSeeMe.
It uses Flash to access your Camera and Mic
Add a room name top right create a "room" and take you to that page.
Allow the Flash item
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Picked up a B/W.. have some questions

Hey guys. I picked up a B/W yesterday for a nice spare computer and i have some questions.
1. The former owner upgraded to 10.3 but the computer is lacking serious speed. I know it's not going to be fast but i have a feeling the Memory and video card is holding it back. It only has 256 megs of ram and i would like to add some more. What the max amount i can add? I heard 1GB but is it possible to do more? THe video card is the original and seriously *****. Whats a great card everyone runs? I was looking at the new HD series on new egg but i think it's designed for a pc. Will it work?
Also.. What's the best place to buy pieces for this mac? Any good online retailers? Thanks again
Ron

Before you even think about investing in this computer you might want to check if it is a Rev. 1 or Rev. 2 model. I can't tell you how because I have never laid hands on a BW but apparently the Rev. 1 starts behaving really erratically when you try to upgrade things like the hard drive, and you may quickly tire of a tiny hard drive.
As for parts, there's the old standby www.mac-sales.com but once you start buying new upgrades for that computer you will quickly outstrip just buying a used G4 instead. LowEndMac Google groups is a good place for aged machines, and of course there's e-bay. There's also a variety of used Mac and parts retailers, though I think a BW is even outside their interest range now since nobody wants to pay for parts for a G3 what they have to charge to stay in business.

Matrox MXO2 Mini and CS6 Windows?

I got a Blackmagic Intensity Pro card to monitor the Premiere CS6 timeline, which turned out to have very mediocre performance since half the times I press play the audio lags one second behind the video. So I'm going to return it and get something else, and the next logical choice by price would be the Matrox MXO2 Mini, and there's a promotion running until the end of July to get the Max model $200 off, so I have two questions for those of you who have this kit.
Does it perform as it should with CS6.0.1? Meaning, no A/V sync issues, no lockups, proper video timings sent to the TV set or broadcast monitor, etc.
And, what about the h.264 encoding quality? I keep trying to find anything on it but all I get are results that talk about its features, like it has super fast encoding, but I can't find any reviews on the actual quality of the encoding, and speed means nothing to me if quality can't be as good as encoding with x264 in at least the normal setting.
Thanks,
Sebastian

srukweza wrote: Can you please update us on the perfomance of the Matrox Mini Max when you have got it.
Certainly. I got it yesterday, and at least for now, I couldn't be happier. Perhaps I'm jinxing it by posting this, but hopefully it will help others without a giant budget to decide for a decent output card instead of a piece of junk like the Intensity Pro, especially since the Max version is $600 at B&H right now for a month or two.
For starters, the MXO2 Mini doesn't have any lag. Ever. The tiny lag I see now between the Premiere monitor window and my TV set is the same I saw with Edius and the HD Spark, and it's caused by the extra processing added by the TV set to the signal, which can be disabled by selecting the "game" mode, but that means lower picture quality. The TV set has a lag of about 3.5 frames, but with the BM Intensity "Pro" (I would like to know what's exactly Pro about that card), it was about one second in certain instances, where I would have to stop and resume to get the correct sync.
The BMI was even worse when scrubbing. While Premiere is pretty bad at scrubbing compared to Edius, the perfomance with the BMI was hillarious. I would go up and down the timeline and the monitor window in the GUI would get stuck sometimes, but the TV set with the signal from the BMI was like a guy in really bad shape trying to catch up to the cursor, and lagging several seconds behind. It was like "Hey dude, let me catch my breath, don't move that mouse so fast, I'm just a itty bitty card with a slow processor!" The MXO2 output signal moves along with my hand, again, with only the lag caused by the TV set.
Picture quality is great, just as good as it is from Edius using the HD Spark, or connecting the camera to the TV set directly using HDMI. The MXO2 outputs a proper interlaced signal (from interlaced footage, of course) that the TV set identifies correctly and can deinterlace for the screen. It can output progressive as well, PAL or NTSC, any size in SD or HD.
Maybe I'm calling the Gods of Jinx to punish me for this, but for me Premiere is very stable with the MXO2. I haven't had any crashes. Only a couple of times it seemed to get stuck for a few seconds and display a frozen frame, but again, this only happened twice in a day and it was as simple as switching to another sequence and back. I don't know if this was caused by a bug in Premiere or the MXO2, but I can live with it if it's just twice a day.
As for those supposed benchmarks that it's supposed to slow down hard drive I/O 300%, it's all BS. The only lack of speed I notice is typical of Premiere, since it's much slower than Edius at handling footage. With Edius, editing AVCHD footage feels almost like editing I-frame only MPEG 2 footage. It can play forward up to 3x or backwards up to 2x without dropping a single frame, with 3 way color correction and curves, scale and rotation. Premiere just can't do that. Even without any effects applied, and with my GTX570 (480 CUDA cores) and a 6 core 3.2 GHz AMD CPU with 16 GB of RAM, trying to play in reverse freezes it for more than a second before it starts playing, and it doesn't do it smoothly. This was that way back in CS5 too, without any additional monitoring card. But the disk speed is exactly the same whether the MXO2 is connected or not, or at least it feels the same, having worked on a project with a four hour timeline. And we're talking AVCHD footage, the one from professional cameras that is 21 Mbps VBR, which is much harder to decode than the one from consumer AVCHD camcorders.
And finally, the Max addition is excellent. I was weary of this type of encoding, having tried the h.264 encoding from both ATI and Nvidia cards, which delivered on the promise of speed, but the resulting footage was absolute garbage, full of pixelation and unwatchable by anyone who demands better than YouTube quality. With the MXO2 I can encode in real time, with Max. render quality selected, and the result is high quality. I did three different encodes of the same 4 minutes of foootage, one in the default 30 Mbps, then 20 and 10 Mbps. I burned that to a BD-RE in Encore and played it on a Sony BDP-S370 connected to my Samsung 46" TV set, and I didn't notice any obvious pixelation, unless I paused and went frame by frame on the 10 Mbps and a bit on the 20 Mbps sample. But overall the quality is great. I still have to do some comparisons with the x264 encoder at the slowest settings, but being able to export in the real time directly from the timeline to high quality h.264 is just amazing.
Of course this is just my experience, and I understand that some people may have had a bad experience with a particular Matrox product and now wants to do nothing with the brand, but in my short experience with the MXO2 Mini, it seems like a hell of a card. I hope it stays that way, because I really want to go back to editing in Premiere. Back in 2010 I tried Premiere CS5 with a GTX465 and the BMI, and it was a terrible experience. The real time was nice, butthe GTX465's fan would speed up like hell every time I hit play, which was very annoying. And to make it worse, the driver for BMI would crash Premiere about three times per hour of editing. So after that horrible experience, I jumped to a promotion to get Edius with the HD Spark for $200 off, and I enjoyed excellent real time and stability, but Edius lacks many creative effects that Premiere has, more so now with CS6. So I'm happy that finally Premiere offers a stable and dynamic editing experience for me.

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