ADSL Speeds

[Denis O]

I have a BT 8mb connection and the actual speeds are:

6.2mb Download
250k upload

which is fine most of the time except when it comes to viewing TV on the lappy via the Sling Catcher. Although Sling say a speed of 300k should be adequate I suspect that is unlikely as 250 is complete rubbish. Something double may do the job.

Is there anyway to improve the upload speed?

Speak to BT but then it's a phone call to Bombay and all it's inherent frustrations.

Change the router from the standard BT Home Hub but I don't know if that will help.

Any other suggestions?

[Accelebrate]

Are you watching TV from your Slingcatcher when you're away from home? Or am I missing something?

If you're streaming from a network device in your house to your laptop in the same building I would have thought all the traffic would be internal, so the limiting factors would be your wired/wireless network rather than your ADSL connection.


I had issues streaming video from my laptop to my Xbox/TV using the Thompson router that O2 supplied (I believe the Homehubs are also made by Thompson). I switched back to the Linksys hardware I've used previously and the issues went away, despite the Linksys stuff only being wireless 'G' and the Thompson router being Draft-N.

[Denis O]

Yes, it's when I'm away from home using the laptop. As you rightly say, when attached to the home network it's a perfect picture.

[FlossyThePig]

I'm with Virgin on an ADSl Max connection (up to 8meg). I don't know what they have done but my upload speed improved a few months ago.

[Neil H]

If you are on an unbundled exchange you might be able to go with BeUnlimited, they do 1mb upload on exchanges using their own equipment.