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Hello all. I've just recently signed up with neotel (prime). i'm struggling to get above the 200kbs mark.... O.S = windows XP. I see a month ago there was talk about people experiencing the same problem. Have you guys managed to find a solution. Is it indeed XP that to blame? Bit torrent advises a static ip address? Can somebody please help....
Tx.
 
Madote said:
Hello all. I've just recently signed up with neotel (prime). i'm struggling to get above the 200kbs mark.... O.S = windows XP. I see a month ago there was talk about people experiencing the same problem. Have you guys managed to find a solution. Is it indeed XP that to blame? Bit torrent advises a static ip address? Can somebody please help....
Tx.
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i think they got those arials things
 
Have you checked your signal on the modem? Make sure you have at least three bars otherwise it is probably the signal that is to blame. Also try moving the modem around as a 30cm difference in my modem position can mean a 200-400kbps increase in speed. Oh yes and make sure the modem says EVDO on it and not 1X.
 
Signal on modem=3 bars, also says evdo, wil try repositioning the device and see... tx. will let you guys know. has anybody tried changing to vista?
 
Madote said:
Signal on modem=3 bars, also says evdo, wil try repositioning the device and see... tx. will let you guys know. has anybody tried changing to vista?
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there is a thread about this just search and check
 
RichardG said:
I am on Windows Vista, and I myself cannot download more than 150 KB/S. Sites downloading slow, google takes a bit of time...
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150 KB/s
is a pretty good speed Richard the post above is talking about not reaching speeds of 200Kbps (note the lower case b) which is almost 1/10th of the speed you are getting.
 
rtzouves said:
150 KB/s
is a pretty good speed Richard the post above is talking about not reaching speeds of 200Kbps (note the lower case b) which is almost 1/10th of the speed you are getting.
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i agree he has a good speed + he is uncapped
 
4kb upload speed! erg. Thats the thing with wireless - it is so unstable. Even tho its uncapped, and even tho you have 2.4mbps in theory youre speed can vary from 10kb/s to 200kb/s without your signal changing, just from minute to minute.

The timeouts and fluctuations irratate me too much. Id be very interested in Neotel once they bring out an ADSL UNCAPPED offering. Then id happily sign for 24months if the price was right.
 
Madote said:
Hello all. I've just recently signed up with neotel (prime). i'm struggling to get above the 200kbs mark.... O.S = windows XP. I see a month ago there was talk about people experiencing the same problem. Have you guys managed to find a solution. Is it indeed XP that to blame? Bit torrent advises a static ip address? Can somebody please help....
Tx.
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I constantly get around 1Mbps, with no aerials. I do use getright/flashget/wget by default, in threaded mode, depending on the OS i'm using at the time.
 
Not to be picky, but guys you really need to start posting using the correct units of measurement. Kbps (lowercase b) is Kilo bits and is 1/8th of KBps (uppercase B) Kilo Bytes. Posting in the incorrect measurements only serves to confuse everyone reading the post. I realise that this may seem petty, but its like trying to explain that the garage down the road is 100 m away by telling someone it is 100 km away. I think you can all agree that this would not be a very effective means of communicating a measurement.
 
rtzouves said:
Not to be picky, but guys you really need to start posting using the correct units of measurement. Kbps (lowercase b) is Kilo bits and is 1/8th of KBps (uppercase B) Kilo Bytes. Posting in the incorrect measurements only serves to confuse everyone reading the post. I realise that this may seem petty, but its like trying to explain that the garage down the road is 100 m away by telling someone it is 100 km away. I think you can all agree that this would not be a very effective means of communicating a measurement.
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+1
 
Tried moving the modem/phone, still 3 bars, download speeds no different. Will keep you guys informed. (have called neotel techs...)
 
well i got also neotel and i am really very upset from it.
speed is 16kbps,have anyone solution to increase it?
its 4 signals bar on the phone
BR
 
Kashif Khan said:
well i got also neotel and i am really very upset from it.
speed is 16kbps,have anyone solution to increase it?
its 4 signals bar on the phone
BR
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Is that 16kbps as in kilobits (i.e. 2 kilobytes per second)??? Cause if that's the case, you now have the lowest speed I have ever heard of on a broadband device.

Edit: Come to think of it, that's the slowest speed I've ever heard of on any internet device.
 
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