Incredibly slow broadband and fed up with call cen...

Hi all,
My broadband was fine up until a week or so ago but recently it's been crawling along at a snail's pace. I ran speedtest.net and got 0.36 mb/s up and down. Usually it's above 5.
I've gone through the BT Broadband "Wizard" which didn't help at all - I followed all the steps and it didn't change anything.
I then called the BT Call Centre... it was an ordeal and after the whole debarcle it still wasn't fixed! They called the house today and my dad answered and when they asked "is the internet working?" he said "yes" as... it was. Just REALLY slow (which he didn't realise).
I'm not using a BT router, I'm using a Belkin one and I've updated the drivers.
Any ideas?! I really don't want to call them again as it's so tedious and pointless!

I don't know what you mean by my adsl stats from my router. I assume you mean this information:
Internet Settings
   ADSL Status
Connected
   Data Rate Down/Up
573Kb/448Kb
   WAN MAC address
00-11-50-80-07-59
   Connection Type
PPPoA
   Subnet mask
255.0.0.0
   Wan IP
86.178.***.***
   Default gateway
217.32.147.0
   DNS Address
62.6.**.***
I went to that website. The first time it didn't get onto the user auth. The second time I got this:
...not sure what to do now...
   ADSL Status
Connected
   Data Rate Down/Up
573Kb/448Kb
   WAN MAC address
00-11-50-80-07-59
   Connection Type
PPPoA
   Subnet mask
255.0.0.0
   Wan IP
86.178.180.141
   Default gateway
217.32.147.0
   DNS Address
62.6.40.178

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Hello bt community,
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Hi steviek198 welcome to the forums,
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for home hub - 192.168.1.254
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Hi jacoma,
Sorry to hear that your having issues with your BT Retail services.
You will either be on the ADSLMax (upto 8mbps) service or if your exchange has been BTw 21cn upgraded you maybe on the ADSL2/2+ (upto 12/20mbps) service depending on your line quality and length.
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ADSL Line Statistic Help:
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Hello,
I am getting pretty slow broadband, so I emailed BT technical support to get help. A chap phoned me at teatime and siaid I should be getting ~14Mbps, but then a friend came over, so I ended the call and called back 0800 111 4567 just now.
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35
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Slow broadband and customer service

Is there a number I can call that does not end up with an Idian on the other end.
Am sick of constantly calling about slow speed and being told am getting 8meg when I'm only geting 2 to 0.85 meg
I want an engineer to come out in the evening when the problems start, but cant seem to get past the dam call centre.

the CS is only number available there is no UK number
as pointed in september if you get an engineer visit and problem is on your side of the test socket then you will get a bill for £129.99 for the callout
you would be better posting the information previously requested and see if the forum members can help and failing that the forum mods
the information requested was
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are you connected directly via a filter to the NTE5 master or test socket or to somewhere else? Is the master the only phone socket in your home?
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
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Desperately slow broadband, and getting worse!

Hi folks - the common problem here, going by the forum - desperately slow broadband.
I'm about as far from my local exchange as it's possible to get and still receive broadband. My connection is a maximum 512 kbps and has been in place for years now. My usual download speed would have been 120 kbps on a good day, and a gaming ping on 54 - 58.
This last month it's been terrible, and getting worse. Download speed dropped to 50, and this morning is 28.9. An update from the Apple website took 34 minutes for 32.9 Mb. I'm getting repeatedly booted off my gaming servers for a high ping of 300 or so; sometimes the orange light on the router flashes repeatedly before going green again.
I run two computers from the router, both on ethernet, but only one ever surfs at any time; however I used to be able to surf both - not any more. Frequent "Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage" and "diagnose connection problems" messages appear. Some webpages - for example the eBay home page - take over a minute to fully load. It reminds me of my old dial-up days.
BT Speedtests a few months back gave me a speed of 394; three days ago it was 194, this morning it did not complete the test. I'm getting very frustrated.
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I tried the master socket two days ago hence the recent disconnection; the end plug on my cable is a small squarish one not the longer rectangular one that the phone uses so it won't fit the master socket. Before that the router had been connected for weeks with no improvement. This problem has persisted for almost six weeks now with no return to the old faster speeds. It can't be software as I run an Apple Mac and a PC alternately through both ethernet connections (unused computer is switched off)
If gaming the game goes very slow, or freezes, I get booted by admin for high ping, and sometimes - not every time - if I watch the router the broadband light flashes orange before reverting to green again.
I've been connected for years at a good speed (for this area) but since July / august it's really dropped to the present annoying stage.
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Very Slow Broadband and Poor Customer Service

Hi,
Since April we have been having issues with our broadband line dropping the connection and terribly slow speed (around 0.4Mbs). We have had 3 engineer visits changing the master socket, home hub, filter and even work done out in the road. Each one has supposedly 'fixed' the problem, only for it to return to the very slow speeds within a week or so.
Our fourth engineer visit was booked for this morning, and the engineer failed to arrive. I received a phone call to say BT needed to re-arrange the appointment as the reason the engineer hadn't arrived was because BT had decided that it needed to be a 'multi services' engineer not a 'external' engineer.
I didn't even get an apology when I pointed out that I'd taken half a day off work to wait for the engineer when I could have been notified that the visit had been cancelled. Unfortunately we got cut off before I could re arrange the appointment so I called back, only to be told by the next person that in fact the reason the engineer hadn't attended was because of a BT OpenReach outage. After re-arranging the engineer visit I've now been sent 2 confirmation texts one to say they will be coming on Friday, one to say they will be coming on Monday. Hence another 10 minutes of my day calling to confirm when they would actually be attending.
I have also been incorrectly charged the £129.99 Engineer Home Improvement Charge as a result of the 2nd engineer visit due to an ‘admin error’. This was refunded to my account following 3 phone calls (one to ask why the money had been credited to my BT bill when I'd specifically asked for it to be returned to my bank account) but it caused me to go overdrawn in the process incurring bank charges.
I have raised 2 complaints, but no-one has contacted me concerning them (now 2 weeks and counting). When I finally lost it and called to cancel the contract I was told that as I was still in my minimum term I would have to pay £208 for the pleasure. My counter argument that for a total 3 months BT have not been providing the service we’re paying for seemed to fall on deaf ears.
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welcome to the BT community forum where customers help customers and only BT employees are the forum mods
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are you connected directly via a filter to the NTE5 master or test socket or to somewhere else? Is the master the only phone socket in your home?
Have you tried the quiet line test? - dial 17070 option 2 - should hear nothing - best done with a corded phone. if cordless phone you may hear a 'dull hum' which is normal
is there any exchnage problems listed http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/mso.php
http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/?
http://btbusiness.custhelp.com/app/service_status
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/15036
http://community.plus.net/exchange-information/
Someone may then be able to offer help/assistance/suggestions to your problem
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Slow broadband and 10 day wait period

Hi,
Maybe you can help me. I have moved to my new home and I have had the broadband active for about 5 days now. The download connection rate has never gone beyond 128kBps. The IP profile has stayed at 2Mbps. (I have BT Broadband unlimited option 3). The call to the helpline has basically suggested that I wait for 10 days and that I do not reset the router in the meanwhile. (If the modem can't get better than 128Kbps connection rate, the IP profile will never improve, in fact I expect it to go lower)
As far I can see the modem stats show a very high noise margin. I did initially directly connect to the master socket, removing the bottom plate and plug in the modem into that. That did not really make any difference to the datarate.
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128 Kbps
Upstream
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VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
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Modulation
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Fast
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31.1 dB / 31.0 dB
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39.8 dB / 23.0 dB
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CRC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 0
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote)
0 / 1
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Additional Information:
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IP Profile for your line is - 2000 Kbps
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So here are the results from third test
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IP Profile for your line is - 2000 Kbps
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When I called the support line, they remotely logged onto my computer, accessed the router and fiddled with the wireless setting and told me to wait for a a few days. Impossible to get them to consider anything else. Maybe you will be able to escalate this for me.
Thank you for your time.
Regards
Nirmal

Thanks for your quick reply.
I did the quiet line test in the master socket, but I could not hear anything that's unusual. It was quiet!
So I plug the modem in the master socket and cheked the noise margin numbers again, no improvement.
ADSL line status
Connection Information
Line state
Connected
Connection time
0 days, 00:01:45
Downstream
128 Kbps
Upstream
64 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI
0/38
Type
PPPoA
Modulation
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type
Fast
Noise margin (Down/Up)
31.4 dB / 31.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up)
39.3 dB / 22.5 dB
Output power (Down/Up)
12.4 dBm / 1.6 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote)
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote)
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote)
0 / 0
FEC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 0
CRC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 1
HEC Errors (Down/Up)
0 / 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote)
0 / 1
Any other suggestions?

Slow Broadband and Landline Not Working

I recently moved into a new property (last November) and although the connection is often intermittant, the speed was great and way above what I was expecting (up to 18Mbps down).
We had some torrentially bad weather recently, and our line speed has dropped down to around 2Mbps down, and along with that our landline has stopped working. I get no dial tone, even plugged into the test socket (tried with and without the ADSL filter), when I call the landline from my mobile it rings and rings on my mobile, but no sound from the landline. Could this be related to the weather, or am I making a connection where there may be none?
Also does the fact I don't get a dial tone in the test socket mean it is likely a problem with the line outside of the property? And could whatever is causing the loss of landline also cause the drop in broadband speed? I have contacted BT a few times, the first time they suggested new ASDL filters, which I've attached with no luck, and they've now told me they'll send out engineers (at some point).
ADSL line status and connection information below in case anyone can spot anything out of the ordinary. If there is anything else I can provide to help just let me know!
ADSL Line Status
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 days, 00:31:28
Downstream:
2.602 Mbps
Upstream:
265.6 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
6.0 dB / 5.1 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
45.6 dB / 48.7 dB
Output power (Down/Up):
20.0 dBm / 12.1 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up):
7098 / 3
CRC Events (Down/Up):
2 / 32
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote):
0 / 0
HEC Events (Down/Up):
36 / 7
Error Seconds (Local/Remote):
2 / 0

broadband can work with only 1 of the 2 wires conected but usually very slowly - just like yours
your attenuation up is greater than the down attenuation whereas normal is about half the down attenuation and with your current down attenuation you will never get 18mb more like 8mb
need to report fault asap or use the link
phone faults
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My comp is 7 layers. Duration 1:46:00 output is Side by Side
Layer 1- animation with alpha clip. Opacity is keyframed to do a 'dissolve' at the beginning and end of the clip. TC in 53:11, out 1:05:01
Layer 2- comp. stereoscopic 3D. Made from using a camera and Create Stereo 3D Rig. It's a mask of the earth in space. 1:46:00
Layer 3- animation with alpha clip. Opactiy keyframed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp. TC in 1:25:09, out 1:45:10.
Layer 4- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 1:03:2,' out 1:16:10.
Layer 5- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 31:12, out 48:11.
Layer 6- animation with alpha clip. Opacity key framed same as layer 1. Clip aniamtionwas done in the original comp.TC in 6:06, out 21:14.
Layer 7- animation codec clip. 1:46:00 duration.
Now when I attempt to render this out to a ProRes 422 file so that I can join it up with the other footage in Primeire Pro, I basically sit around for 2 hours and then I get a nice little dialog box stating "an output module failed. The file may be damaged or corrupted. (-1610153464).
This is maddening to say the least.
Other issues
After Effects basically is Pathetically slow in rendering out a ProRes or Animation or any type of mov file. A simple 30sec clip takes 1 hour 47 minutes. All the clip contains is a tiff left eye and right eye and the 3D glasses plug in. That's it. I know my system isn't the biggest out there (I bought what I could afford). But these render times are ludicrous. If I turn of the multiprocessing it doesn't help. I have the openGL turned on. That doesn't seems to do anything. I have it set up to use 10Gb of ram, yet the system says I'm only using 37% of my ram, none of my processors and I have no idea about the graphics card. Am I totally missing something about how after effects actually does rendering? I'm from the old school of Jaleo and Shake and Nuke. However I set out on my own as a freelancer and I can't really afford Nuke (besides I don't like that it doesn't have a timeline). So I purchased Adobe production premium thinking it can do the job I want, however it seems to act like a spoilt brat software. Yes im ranting had really having thoughts of buyers remorse.
If anyone out there has any advice or thoughts on how to get this to work I'd be more than grateful to hear from you.
Cheers
James

That doesn't seems to do anything. I have it set up to use 10Gb of ram, yet the system says I'm only using 37% of my ram,
AE only takes what it needs, as do any programs with dynamically managed memory. It's not cramming everything into RAM when it doesn't have to.
none of my processors
Secondary processors/ cores will only be used, if you enable the sad excuse that is the "Render multiple Frames simultanuously" feature. As Todd suggested, read that article on "optimum" settings. Just keep in mind that what works well for one project may not work at all for the next one when the balance of footage I/O vs. pixel processing vs. memory consumption changes. You're gonna learn to really hate this...
I have no idea about the graphics card
AE doesn't use it for the most part. Even if you enable all of the hardware acceleration features, AE may turn them off behind your back, one such condition being the use of MP rendering. Can't have both. Conversely, MP rendering might be turned off just the same, if specific effects or features are used. That's also expleianed in teh help. Your only chance of halfway benefiting from hardware acceleration is buying some third-party plug-ins that have their own implementations of OpenGL and CUDA. Still, since you use two different cards i nyour system, that may also be problematic...
Mylenium

Slow broadband and loads of errors

Hi new to the forum but would like some advice.
I have to seperate bt lines with broadband on both one is at 6meg and the other is between 2 and 3 meg download speeds.
9 days ago there was a major cable fault in the area and we lost phone and broadband on one of the lines... fault was cleared and all seemed ok.
however my router seems to have millions of FEC events and I have had to restart it as connection dropped.
here are the stats from my home hub any help or advice please.. Ps we are in rural area and have overhead lines to property

the FEC's show interleaving is working and nothing to worry about however the other errors signify a line noise problem
Here is a basic guide to getting help from the community members done by CL Keith Please read through the link posted http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/speed/first_steps.html
once you have posted the information asked for then the community members can help you more
if using a hub 4 locate these lines located in the hub logs
Lines should look like this
19:11:29, 07 Nov. (2290101.460000) DSL noise margin: 7.00 dB upstream, 6.10 dB downstream
19:11:29, 07 Nov. (2290101.390000) DSL line rate: 448 Kbps upstream, 288 Kbps downstream
Thank You
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Extremely slow broadband and lousy customer servic...

I have just changed to BT and boy I wish I hadn't. After 10 days for it to "come up to speed" it didn't (download speed of 120 Kbps). I have fitted an accelerator which didn't make any difference and it has taken 3 phone calls of about half an hour each duration for someone who I barely understood telling me that I had fault. I knew I had a fault as I was told 3 times. The customer support team who was told would call me back at a specific time didn't and now I have been told that an engineer will come out in a weeks time to solve all my problems - if only. BT, I am totally disappointed with your service and wish I had never changed as talk talk who was originally with was very fast. Is there a cool off period where you can cancel the service?

there is no cool off period - you need to cancel before service is provided.
if yyou would like some help/suggestions can you post the adsl stats from your router may need to 'show detail' to get all stats (if hub enter 192.168.1.254 in your browser and navigate to adsl or use a-z, if netgear enter 192.168.0.1) and run btspeedtester http://speedtester.bt.com and post the results.
are you connected to the NTE5 master or test socket or somewhere else? Do you have any phone extension sockets in your home?
Someone may then be able to offer help/assistance/suggestions to your problem
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Slow copy and install times with ARD 3.6.1

I have just this school year setup a new iMac lab with 23 clients and 1 admin iMac. All are 27 inch 3.2 Ghz. All run the latest Mac OS.
The network is running through a 100baseT Brocade switch. When copying files to all clients the transfer speed is really slow. I often need to copy over QuickTime movie files that students watch to learn steps for Photoshop and other applications. The file sizes can be well over 50Mb at times.
I used Migration Assistant to set up the Admin mac from a previous Mac. Could that be the cause?
What should take seconds is taking many minutes. I am frustrated and have asked the network admin's to help but the school is all PC except for my lab so they are manly PC guys. But they are trying to help.
Can anyone make some suggestions as to what may be going on?
I have requested a 1000baseT switch to see if that helps, but it will not be installed till next year sometime.
Thanks,
Ben

I believe this is bug with ARD that has yet to be fixed. If you copy the same file to just one computer using ARD it should be fast, but if you copy the same file to two computers or more in ARD it gets more than twice as slow. The more computers you try to do at once in ARD it gets magnitudes slower. For some reason ARD cannot handle multiple streams. It is so bad that even when working on multiple computers I still have to do them one at time if there is any copying involved. I can do 10 computers one a time via ARD so much faster than all 10 at once.
So give this a test, deploy your large file or application to all 23 systems and time how long it takes to get to 10% complete. Then stop it and have ARD send to just 1 computer. Do the math and you will see ARD ***** when it comes to copying anything to more than one system.
We are gigabit in our lab already and it did not help solve this bug.
Dennis

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