In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

But you said "21Mbs to 40 Mbs " when using a wire, and the Openreach modem has no idea of what the router is using to connect people with.

Have you taken the computers to another location and shown them getting speeds well in excess of 21 Mbps, or done LAN to LAN speed testing that would work even if you switched the Openreach modem off.

What I mean by this is if I disconnect everything from the modem, and just plug in my laptop and run speed tests - shouldnt the speed be constant - not have such huge variants?

Sorry if I seem confused...I thought that if I pay extra for fibre and am estimated speeds of 38, I might be able to get speeds of more than 20!

you are, as the wired test proves. You just have a local wireless problem.

it's a contended service, was your TT ADSL perfectly consistent ?

Only would be totally consistent if you were the only person online.

You need to actually try wired into the router i.e.
openreach modem ---- talktalk router ---- computer

If that gives the same as computer on its own, then the talktalk router is ok just maybe an issue with wireless.

In reply to a post by gregholmes1974:

Sorry if I seem confused...I thought that if I pay extra for fibre and am estimated speeds of 38, I might be able to get speeds of more than 20!

You're with one of the cheapest providers, have you tried at different times of day, and days of the week - as you might find that in the evenings (e.g. Friday) the system is heavily used so slows down - and at 9:30am on a Monday its lightning fast.

The speed does vary - but nothing to be concerned about.

My next step is to buy a 10 metre cat5 and move my router well away from where it currently is - hopefully that will improve things.

I have just had the same problems today, 37mb wired and 21mb wireless on Sky. I tried updating drivers and some other things that were suggested. In frustration I wired my laptop to the router, uninstalled the wireless drivers and restarted. On restart, new drivers were installed and I now have 36mb on the laptop . Only on this one though as the others only have "G" compatible network cards.

I've very recently taken up Talktalk's offer of a free Huawei HG330, clearly they are aiming at trying to push the fibre installations.
But in fact my old Speedtouch 585 syncs faster on ADSL than the Huawei does by 1Mbps. So I'm just using the HG330 as a wirelesss and ethernet hub. However, the addition of 802.11N has made a lot of difference to my local wifi speeds: the old Speedtouch doesn't of course support it. All my devices see it, and have better range. Over most of the house I'm getting a 135Mbps link, and even in places where B/G was very dubious on tablets, I get 39Mbps.

Edited by deleted (Sun 04-Aug-13 16:33:50)