Bizarre broadband problem

[sasguru]

Hey! some sensible comments!!! That makes a change!
PPS What's an snr sockpuppet?

Just to redress the balance.
I'm guessing snr sockpuppet if the father of jnr sockpuppet. Or perhaps the spanish version, senhor sockpuppet.

[DaveB]

Signal To Noise ratio. How much the modem can hear of the data over the background noise. In the evenings / night the SNR will raise (its just a natural thing) so when this raises the modem has a harder time hearing the data that is sent.

In the case of CUK the SNR is bloody awfull

[AtW]

Noise is also Signal.

[hyperD]

PS Except from hyperd - typical process engineer!

Hey xogg - you know us process engineers, always fiddling with our equipment at any opportunity!

Hope you get it sorted.

Another thought - if you are on BT Home for instance, the contention ratio is around 50:1 for the bandwidth compared with business which is 20:1. In other words, evenings when the kids are grabbing the bandwidth it may cause problems?

[AtW]

BT now kicks out people who exceed their ridiculously low traffic limit on "unlimited" broadband connections. Swines.

[hyperD]

Is that business as well? I hope not, I've got a porn empire to protect.

[AtW]

I think business account is actually fine - I had it for 3 months and I used it pretty much up to the max, ~2 Mbits all the time, I then canned it as it was trial. Careful though - they have some "light" business accounts, but proper one (I paid 29.99 for it) should be fine, a loopwhole IMO, not sure how long will it last, they probably afraid of bad publicity that may affect businesses so let hoggers do it.

[hyperD]

I use BT Broadband business 8Mb - not had any problems with dropout or restrictions so far. Have static IP and use a Draytek router.

Bit concerned if BT would restrict bandwidth useage on business account, not that I would ever exceed any limits with my clients, unlike you Mr C and SKA.

[AtW]

I have business Telewest cable account - they are unlimited on consumer grade connections, and certainly so on business one, pricey but well worth it.