Hi There. I've been having problems with Orange Home Broadband for 3 weeks now. I'm getting extremely slow HTTP speeds but reasonably fast FTP speeds. With HTTP i'm lucky if a page will load at all without timing out. However if I download a file via FTP it's pretty quick at 250kb/s. We normally get about 7 meg on speed test so I guess around 800kb/s. The internet has been fine for the last 8 years but suddenly one day these problems started. I've had 4 BT engineers out who have checked the phoneline twice and tested all other equipment in the house. 2 of the engineers performed a 'lift and shift' at the exchange with no success. What's interesting is that skype via ipad via the router works fine although drops the connection every 2-3 mins. I've tried 4 different filters and 3 different routers. Turned dmz on, tried literally everything I can think of. I have 9 devices connected to the routers and i refuse to believe that they all went faulty at the same time, It must be something at oranges end. Any ideas? Many Thanks AJ
orange boadband is RUBBISH full stop. get it dumped saying your not giving me a stable connection or even remotely decent speed and get someone better.
What he said! Have you tried fiddling with the MTU settings. We ended up like yourself and went to Sky in the end then Virgin but fiddling with the MTU settings seem to work.
Thanks for the replies So i lowered the MTU within the router from 1,492 to 1,300 and it suddenly started working again, however that only lasted 5 hours then it stopped working again. I then put it back to 1,492 and it started working again? I'm so confused!
