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My speed is half what it should be...
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After buying a 2-Wire 2700HG-B, my speed seems to have been cut in half. My old piece of ... poop modem died, so I upgraded to one that is wireless, as per the recommendation of AT&T. The problem is somewhat intermittent, but most of the time my speed test says that I am getting around .61 megabits per second download. The higher/better speed test shows what my speed was before I switched to the new modem. What could be causing this? I feel like I am using dial-up. I mean it was pretty slow for DSL before that, but hey, when you pay $30 a month grand total, what can you expect? But it was still plenty fast enough to browse web pages with ease. Now I have to wait like 5-10 seconds just for a page to get done loading.
But like I said, it does speed up to where it should be, sometimes. But most of the time it hovers around 0.61 download. What could this be? I called AT&T, and they said the lines looked good from their end, but they could see that I was getting some "interference". The only thing I have in line is a coupler, to extend the line. It looks like this, but it's just a simple female-female coupler for extending a regular old phone line.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...odsInSession=1
But I really don't see how that could be causing the problem, cause I had it when I had the old modem and it didn't give me problems then. I didn't start having this problem till I switched over to the new modem, and set up a WAP security. Yet the rep from AT&T insists that coupler is the problem.
But like I said, it does speed up to where it should be, sometimes. But most of the time it hovers around 0.61 download. What could this be? I called AT&T, and they said the lines looked good from their end, but they could see that I was getting some "interference". The only thing I have in line is a coupler, to extend the line. It looks like this, but it's just a simple female-female coupler for extending a regular old phone line.
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...odsInSession=1
But I really don't see how that could be causing the problem, cause I had it when I had the old modem and it didn't give me problems then. I didn't start having this problem till I switched over to the new modem, and set up a WAP security. Yet the rep from AT&T insists that coupler is the problem.
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Crap. Well you know, just one of those little line couplers you can get a wal-mart. All it does, is let you plug one phone line, into another phone line. Via a female to female little coupler that is like 1.5 inches long. The pic shows what one side of the little coupler might look like.
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no im thinking he is saying one of these
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Originally Posted by GH0 So... you are talking about a splitter? If so, then yes, that splitter is most likely causing your problem. |
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