Internet advice needed!

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   BT are a bloody disgrace mate. The problem is their "up to" claim...it coukl mean anything.....try testing your REAL speed.
I'll give you a link soon.

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Snow Dog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995	Posted: August 14 2010 at 04:54
	BT are a bloody disgrace mate. The problem is their "up to" claim...it coukl mean anything.....try testing your REAL speed. I'll give you a link soon.


Blacksword Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: June 22 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 16130	Posted: August 14 2010 at 04:49
	For about six months now, my Internet connection has been unreliable. BT is my service provider and my download speed is 2m. This had been perfectly sufficient for the last 4 years (ever since I got my current laptop) I'm still running Windows XP. I'm not unable to watch anything on Youtube. The clip starts playing and then just stops and endlessly buffers. I cant watch BBC IPlayer for the same reasons, indeed, anything that requires any kind of 'Flash player' My question is, does this sound like a download speed issue? I have tried the following: 1) Using different browsers (Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 8) IE8 was by far the worst!! 2) Defragmenting my hard drive 3) Running registry clean up tools 4) Running numerous virus checkers I may just need to change my ISP, but I'd like to make sure there isn;t something easy I can do first.
	Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy!