PaulTaylorPerth

Alexandre, Appreciate the suggestion, but that was not the issue... Im one of the lucky ones, with the exchange in my back yard, on the other side of my fence; say 100m maximum. Further research showed the ADSL link between myself and iInet reports 20 mbits per second, I.e. d/loading from 'their' web or ftp server. Clearly the problem had to relate with iInet's external link. As final proof, I setup a net speed test between myself and another iInet client in Perth city who also "had slow internet browsing". I can't renember the speed transferring data between us, but it was flying! And, remote desktop sessions between us felt no different to a local lan connection. Certain times a day, and much more noticably, during school holidays, browsing etc boggs down to a crawl...

Greetings from sunny Perth... My new Average d/l Speed Record 14k Bytes / sec faster... faster... My average for the past week was about 9.2kBs - I only discovered testmy.net tonight and wouldn't you know it, the speed tonight is 50% faster, a blistering 14k, but I guess thats because it was 1:40 am local time. TestMy.Net compared it to the average for the country: "99% slower than the Australian average 6.7 Mbps" So all week it must have been about 0.4% of the country avg. Yes, it's a bit better than the reliable 9.6kBs (9600 baud) I used to get on an ordinary phone line over 30 years ago! And if you think that sucks, my upload speed peaked at 0.1kB/s, i.e. barely 100 bytes per second. I have an audio recording of an iInet Technical Expert trying to convince me "there is nothing wrong, your speeds are within a normal ADSL range!". (I will post it when I work out how). TEST RESULTS https://testmy.net/quickstats/PaulTaylorPerth Cheers, Paul p.s. I'm using a new modem, but I get similar (but slower) speeds when I swap it for my ISP supplied "premium" modem.