On 4/27/06, Jack Pivac
on 26/04/06 20:43 Matt Camp said the following:
I am especially surprised since I have had some people on ihug and xtra dsl (in one case not far from here, probably on the same exchange) run some tests, and they get 220kB/s, whereas I am currently getting... 7.5kB/s, and it's been that way for 3 days.
This may sound silly, but its worth a check.
A friend of mine was getting those speeds consistently. and it turns out the username in his dsl modem reset it self to something weird.
It still connected him to his DSL but because the UN didn't authenticate he was capped to 64k.
Might be worth a try :)
This is silly, because there are too many Quicksilver customers currently affected (including me). Plus, my bandwidth isn't anything like 64kbit - it's actually very reasonable (near enough to 3.5mbit) in the early mornings, but drops steadily to around 100-200kbit in the evening. I find this highly supicious, because I used to be able to get my full 2mbit at any time of the day or night from Xtra, before I switched provider last week. Note all bandwidth tests refer to those conducted on Quicksilver's speed test page.