Archive for Broadband

My connection is annoyingly slow in the evenings

12 Mar, 2009  No Comment

Broadband is a contended service, which means the full line speed is shared with other users. The ratio varies from ISP to ISP, but 50:1 (50 people per line) is typical. At peak times – evenings and weekends – the number of home users online increases, leading to congestion. The more people fighting for bandwidth, the slower the connection.

Solve router problems

3 Dec, 2008  2 Comments

The simple act of turning a router off for a few seconds and then turning it back again might be enough to get it working properly. You can also try ‘pinging’ the router to check the connectivity. Go to Start, Run and type cmd into the box. Type ‘ping’ (without the quotes) and the router’s internal IP address (this should be listed in the manual). The common addresses are: 192.168.0.1 (Netgear and D-Link models), 192.168.1.1 (Linksys and 3Com) and 192.168.2.1 (USRobotics). If you get a reply, then the connection to the router is working.