I was reminded again today of the old adage that even when you think you know what the prob\u00adlem prob\u00adably is, until you meas\u00adure it, you\u2019re likely to be wrong. This applies par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly to factors that impede your inter\u00adnet speed.<\/p>\n
The ADSL<\/span> inter\u00adnet band\u00adwidth pack\u00adage we signed up for, many moons ago, was 3 Mbps. I know, that seems laugh\u00adably slow to many of you, but I don\u2019t down\u00adload video much and it\u2019s adequate for my needs. On a whim, Tim decided to test the speed and found it to be only 1.14 Mbps (even when tak\u00ading out everything in the way, such as fire\u00adwall and router). We tested a few times, and got sim\u00adil\u00adar res\u00adults. So even\u00adtu\u00adally we called up the ISP<\/span> and com\u00adplained, they ran their tests and found noth\u00ading, and as a last resort from their side, offered to send us a new modem.<\/p>\n Now the mod\u00adel I had was less than a year old, a Thom\u00adson Speedtouch ST516<\/span> V6<\/span>, which I\u2019d bought when I had trouble con\u00adnect\u00ading last year. So I was doubt\u00adful that it would turn out to be an issue with the modem, more con\u00adcerned that it might be an issue with the phone wir\u00ading in this old house. But hey, it does\u00adn\u2019t hurt to try a new modem, so we agreed.<\/p>\n A couple of days later, a new Thom\u00adson Speedtouch ST516<\/span> V6<\/span> modem shows up in the mail. I plug it in, run speedtest.net again, and all of a sud\u00adden we\u2019re get\u00adting 2.12 Mbps, a good-sized increase and much closer to what we\u2019re pay\u00ading for. (The house wir\u00ading and vari\u00adous oth\u00ader factors prob\u00adably make up the rest).<\/p>\n So now I\u2019m puzzled. Two modems, from the out\u00adside exactly the same, with the same mod\u00adel num\u00adber, bought 11 months apart, with very dif\u00adfer\u00adent res\u00adults. It\u2019s not like there are user-con\u00adfig\u00adur\u00adable jump pins on the back that could be set wrongly. The only thing I can think of is that I got a dud with the first modem. Any\u00adone have oth\u00ader explanations?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was reminded again today of the old adage that even when you think you know what the prob\u00adlem prob\u00adably is, until you meas\u00adure it, you\u2019re likely to be wrong. This applies par\u00adtic\u00adu\u00adlarly to factors that impede your inter\u00adnet speed. The ADSL<\/span> inter\u00adnet band\u00adwidth pack\u00adage we signed up for, many moons ago, was 3 Mbps. I \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u201cInter\u00adnet Speed\u201d<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":965,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions\/965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}