The speed saga continues…

Well the whole upstream problem started on the 25th April… here we are on the 21st of May, and no further forward. Speeds seem to go up and down depending on the time of day (both up and down). The technician came, did his tests, checked everything and left, saying it’s a problem at the central, and that he has the same problem. They had promised that he would bring us a new wireless router, which didn’t happen. A technician called the other day and tried to pass off the incident as fixed since we had 6gb of download traffic, and 200mb upload. Most of that was updates to my new Ubuntu installation (that’s right, I’m finally using Linux on a regular basis!), a Virtualbox XP installation and some software installed there, as well as some offline update package updates. most of the upload was a Sex to 9 archive show for Totalrock. it took me about 8h to upload what should have taken me 30min prior to all this mess.

Here’s a current test: