What's the difference between contention and throttling- I'm quite new to all this BB jargon

Contention is the number of people who are sharing the same bandwidth/line as you. That's why you sometimes find that download speeds are better in the daytime than at peak times.

Throttling is where the ISP will restrict the maximum transfer speed.
Think os a torrent, how you can Cap the upload or download speed, that's essentially what the ISP does when they throttle a connection.

Edited by Arcolite (Thu 22-Mar-07 19:20:10)

Cheers Can you find out how many users you are sharing with?

Things are moving results for tonight

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
IP profile for your line is - 3000 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 3776 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 2623 kbps
Will they conyinue to get faster??

Nope but possibly up to 50 others.

You should feel lucky. I'm 4 days into my 10 day learning period (which I didn't know about until digging after things slowed down). My resul at 7AM this morning:

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
IP profile for your line is - 250 kbps
DSL connection rate: 448 kbps(UP-STREAM) 896 kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 223 kbps

If things don't improve considerably after 10 days I'm switching back to my Linksys WR54G which I checked is still giving me far better performance compared to the above. The above is affecting my ability to work. Both of us work from home, both for IT companies (so lots of big docs moving around, remote server access, VPN stuff going on). I guess you get used to a fast connection ... how did I ever manage with 56k?!?

I'm on firmware 6.1.1.R - brand new hub.

I've encountered in the past a couple of hubs which appear to get stuck on 6.1.1R for some reason, they don't seem to auto upgrade

you can force an upgrade using the recovery tool found at http://www.btopenworld.com/broadband/adhoc_pages/hub_firmware.html

It will wipe the settings back to factory defaults though!

The newer firmware usually syncs a bit higher than 6.1.1R

You plug your pc into the Ethernet port on the bottom of the Hub (i think it has to be the first one) and run the tool it should then upgrade the firmware for you.

Do this at your own risk, I will not be held responsible if it bricks your homehub