ShereeHoneyflower

Hi Hiro, I am using Dodo via the Testra landline. Which is your ISP? I rang them today asking for a line test, etc and they said that the line is good from where they're sitting. The speed is where it should be. The techie was a gamer too. If only I thought about asking him of the mangled thing.

I live in Sydney, not the sticks. I use to live in the country and the internet was much better as I normally got 8Mbps there but here in Sydney I average a little over 4Mpbs. Also, the copperwire is old. The techs say that it is outdated and falling apart, struggling to keep up making it expensive to retain. They cannot understand why Australians voted to not update to World standards but remains with a dying infrastructure. Business, health etc are crying out for an updated infrastructure. Very few people here actually believe our internet is up to standard. Tourists visiting commonly ridicule it for being over a decade behind in technology. The other computer is a newly refurbished/rebuilt computer and it is having the same trouble as my two year old computer. I have been thinking of ringing up my provider to see what can be done for me.

I cannot see how you can test the speed with SL. The speed test only lets me test my computer to where they send the ping from/to. I do use wireless modem/router so I connected the computer to the modem through the cable which did not make any difference. While testing from SL's side, the first two crashes showed high ping levels but the third was in normal range.

Thank you for that, Nalates. I will seek to give those suggestions a go. My inferior brain tends to implode trying to taking information like this but I'll give it a go. What you wrote about the internet infrastructure being upgraded has me concerned as we here in Australia only just recently kicked out a Government that had started to upgrade our communications network that is still reliant on 19th Century copperwire networks, and elected a mob who regard the internet as only used for playing games making upgrades a waste of money. And those of them that do support upgrades, only want business to have them. They have already decided that Australia will be relying on the out dated copperwire technology for at least another 20 years. Australia is already behind developed nations. *Sigh! *IPv4/6 I now understand is not about speed but addresses. I did a speed test of my internet. An amazing 2.13Mbps

512 is the number it says before cutting me off. It's been working fine for the past month so if this is the case, why only start being a nuisance now?

I joined SL a few weeks and updated the software when I joined up using the links, etc provided by SL. Now all of a sudden, I am being disconnected constantly as quick only after a few minutes online. I tried the new computer and still the same problems. There has been no changes to my internet connection at all so I cannot see that being the problem.