Jules

Thanks cholla, I have printed all that out & will have a look.

ROFLMAO @ CA3BLE Yeh, they're the Aussie version of the Donald Trump Towers only available to the rich & famous ants. Yes it's pretty sad isn't it? But I had a good chuckle today when my ISP sent me an email announcing & I Quote: BigPond is pleased to announce that BigPond Broadband internet^ is coming to your neighbourhood. So I gave them a call...... only available within the town area not 5km out of town & especialy not through my line I do have one-way satellite but it's costing me a pretty penny in excess downloads at the moment plus there have been some glitches with it, mainly noise problems.

I found the Aussies!! Still slower than a wet week but a bit faster than usualy today...... :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 13 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Upload Speed is:: 2 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1) Test Time:: Tue Jun 28 12:09:51 UTC+1000 2005 Bottom Line:: 0X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 512 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 12.38 % of your hosts average (net.au) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-6A2WS5FQX :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 18 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Download Speed is:: 2 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Tue Jun 28 12:32:58 UTC+1000 2005 Bottom Line:: 0X faster than 56K 1MB download in 512 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 1.38 % of your hosts average (net.au) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-DN7CPRBQO

Thanks for the welcome Cheers for the info. The phone lines here are ancient & have so much noise on them the ants underground need to wear ear-muffs.

:::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 13 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Upload Speed is:: 2 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server1) Test Time:: Tue Jun 28 12:09:51 UTC+1000 2005 Bottom Line:: 0X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 512 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 12.38 % of your hosts average (net.au) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-6A2WS5FQX :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 18 Kbps about 0 Mbps (tested with 97 kB) Download Speed is:: 2 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (server2) Test Time:: Tue Jun 28 12:32:58 UTC+1000 2005 Bottom Line:: 0X faster than 56K 1MB download in 512 sec Diagnosis: May need help : running at only 1.38 % of your hosts average (net.au) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-DN7CPRBQO