Andy Burns wrote:
Mathew Newton wrote:

On Monday, September 3, 2012 1:46:42 PM UTC+1, Andy Burns wrote:

My line struggles to hang onto any connection greater than 2Mbps,

Have you tried a different modem?

Several ...

Westell Proline
Efficient/Siemens
Zyxel
BT 2Wire/BusinessHub
BT HomeHub2
Cisco

Many of Cisco's ADSL modems are very poor performers even with the
latest firmwares released to get them to perform better with BT's kit.

Things have got worse rather than better during the course of two copper
thefts and the upgrade to ADSL2+, I use an ADSL1 router now to keep the
disconnect/reconnect rate down, and accept slower performance than
before ...

yeah. At least you can GET broadband. There's a lot of people who have
to use 3G or dial up still.


Its a friggin disgrace really,.

I am happy with by 4.5Mbps or so BRAS...

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