In reply to a post by edwinbradford:

Ah - right...

I can see where the consensus is, honestly, you guys are great. OK I'll go back to Vivaciti tomorrow and start checking out the other recommended ISP's at the same time starting with xilo and uno then.

Thanks for all the help everyone.

Switching off the modem on an ADSL connection for an appreciable time DOES trigger a drop in rate.

The others have already shot that down, and I see you have accepted what they say . But!

The following is an extract from my ISP's FAQs, but I heard it first from a former engineer colleague (on another ISP).
( A few second OFF can kick the rate up again if it has been dropped due to a short burst of interference. It should adapt up again in time, but the system is fast down slow up so a kick sometimes helps )

That seems to be referring to what was called "blip" logic. It was ditched by BT in August 2008 when the 3-day profile update system it applied to was replaced.

In reply to a post by b4dger:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

...and I see you have accepted what they say

Where did you see/read that?
I must be going mad, but I can't find it...

I replied to JGO accidentally, as I was picking up what he said in order to quote it.

Post deleted and replied to the OP now.

Thanks .

Yes thanks, I replied to the PM and I've had a couple of emails from their support department, they're saying they want to rule out the router being turned off as the cause first but haven't suggested any other action yet.

More lies. If you are on LLU then switching the router off makes no difference at all and they know it! It has been ruled out by the way your LLU connection works.

It's like a mechanic wanting to rule out the fact that the misfire on your diesel engine could be caused by a faulty spark plug

Edited by Finguz (Sun 27-Feb-11 20:26:22)

Speedtest is now showing 13MB down after two tests this morning. We had a power cut yesterday and now my phone doesn't ring, engineers have confirmed there's a problem but I doubt if its related to my speed improvement.

I've been leaving the router on as requested but up until yesterday it showed marginal differences as expected, one test had 5MB down, and doesn't really explain the sudden boost. The only remaining thing I can think of is that I ran SpeedGuide.net TCP Optimizer tool for Vista http://www.speedguide.net/files/vista/SG_Vista_TcpIp...

It changed several settings. I tried a speed test immediately after and saw no difference but perhaps it takes a few minutes / hours to propagate.

Vivaciti haven't done anything to help to be honest, they told me they couldn't do anything until I tried another router so I had to buy one off Ebay for 15 pounds which is a bit annoying, I would have been more impressed if they'd sent me one to test with.