http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r16446457 en Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:21:10 EDT Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:21:10 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16541462 dhaas : I can tell you one thing, bit torent requires alot of underlying connections just to handle the security of it all.

you will never get "full speeds" using bit torent. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16541462 Thu, 20 Jul 2006 18:00:59 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16478203 seagreen : You'll find some useful tips here as well as some tools to use to document the issues you've been seeing.
»Need help? Information to include in your post.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16478203 Tue, 11 Jul 2006 13:59:25 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16447529 Cobra89 : The results from the traceroute only result in a 90ms lag, but this still doesn't solve the problem of the reliability and slow speed. I have access to the signal strength, bit rate, link quality, noise level, etc... Signal Strength: 25%, Link Quality: 29/255, Noise Level: 0/0, Bit Rate: 2mb/s. The bitrate of course fluctuates somewhat, but it is usually stable at 11mb/s when there isn't a lot of traffic. It hasn't been staying at 11mb/s when idle like it normally does. I have also noticed that the signal strength has dropped from what it usually is. It is normally 32-33%, but now never goes that high. I hope these results can help. The bitrate is especially low when running bit torrent, sometimes as low as 1mb/s.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16447529 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 18:35:41 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16447287 LLigetfa : Either you have line of sight or you don't. Which is it? LOS is a straight line between the AP and your CPE plus a margin called the fresnel zone. Depending on distance, this fresnel zone could be 25 or more feet on either side. Generally, 60% of the fresnel zone should be clear.

Usually, the AP is not a router per se, so users cannot normally calculate ping times to it directly but none the less the first router you encounter in a tracert should be what you base your last mile performance on. Keep in mind that routers often put a low priority on ping, so if something further out gives you better times, you can discount the bad times.

Just do your homework with a few tracert and pathping results and confront the WISP with them. That should get things moving in a positive direction. Just make sure that you are not causing your own interference with your own DSL router or new cordless phone.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16447287 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:57:51 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16446457 Cobra89 : I have a wireless ISP and I have noticed that my speeds have a tendency to fluctuate greatly and I have extreme lag to my first ISP subnet hop. If I try and download something from an FTP server one time it may download at 300K, and if I stop it and start it again the next time I start it a few seconds later it may start out at 15K, stall out and drop to 5 or 6K. Sometimes it is so bad I cannot maintain a 32Kbit radio stream with nothing else going through the line. It seems like when I run bit torrent and it only runs at 30K it slows the entire connection down so if you try to load a page or run a stream it will not connect to the server. Sometimes bit torrent slows down to 5 or 6K and the entire line stalls out. A month ago and before I've seen bit torrent easily go over 200K. The ping times are sometimes over 1000ms to the access point. It appears that there is a line of site to the tower, but there is a tree right below the tower from where the antenna is. Does this sound like an antenna issue? I want to have a good idea as to what is going on before I contact my ISP because ISP tech support in my case is a pain. Thanks. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,16446457 Thu, 06 Jul 2006 15:45:00 EDT