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I don't know how to find out about wire and maintenance. First time renting a house. We don't have a land line as mentioned above, so I don't know if its included with our orcon package? I've held off talking to sky for the moment. One thing I hate is having two different companies trying to work on the same problem at different times. They'll get in each others way. I'm trying to get Orcon to help solve the ping issues and then I'll have sky come and fix the physical damage to the phone jack.

Update: I have done a DIY on that phone jack. I over estimated the damage by sky, they had physically broken the jack but the wiring was still there and intact. I've fixed that and am now using this jack. As you can see, I am getting almost twice the speed I was before (win!) However... my pings haven't changed a single bit. This is PING from the states, it hasn't improved at all! Not one bit. Even with a giant increase in speeds! Infact some of these pings are worse than before.. how can I get a better ping to Japan than to AUS?! UK Japan AUS NZ Sorry for the novel, I guess this is a good way to document progress also, and maybe informative to those of you who have similar problems. (If you do) Hooray for increasing speeds... epic fail for ping.

Sorry to hijack - did I see you in Kelston the other day...? Primer+rotary e30?

Yes it does have to be adjusted (not by much) Just use vice grips/big plies/adjustable wrench its not that tight and there's probably a ton of lube in there so it wont seize. It takes 5 minutes. Max - get a locking collar ..............................

Just been at work, didn't think to post the results here. However work is running a telecom adsl2+ connection, and when the bandwidth runs out, the speeds drop back to 56k. Speed test recorded 0.06mbps down. Ping test reported a 35ms ping within NZ. 89 to Sydney, and 199 to Canada!!!!!!!! ON A 56K SPEED CONNECTION!!!!! I have had a reply from Orcon. They have created a fault ticket and have said this would be something to do over the phone. The email I received was actually quite helpful and I will be calling that specific person back on monday.

OR, you find a good condition replacement control arm which are common from wreckers, and relateively cheap, and a very quick part replacement job. No need to press, replace bushes, none of the above. However.. the m3 parts are worth their money...

Are there drawbacks? Will my speeds go down and ping goes up for example? I get good download speeds, that's not my issue, the difficulty I'm having is I am unable to game, even as close as Sydney my ping is too high. Have emailed Orcon, waiting for replies ATM.

Can someone clarify what interleaving actually is/does?

THIS is what I'm talking about, when I pinged the states I got between 500 - 600MS. 900+ In Europe. Heath, I have unplugged the sky box. (As its not currently using a splitter) Unplugged, reset the router, no difference. There's only two other jacks in the house, one working one with the router plugged in. Spliter obviously used. And the other stuffed one, that has been used to run the dedicated sky jack. I don't have a home phone so I can't unplug anything else, with the sky box unplugged the only thing remaining is the router. I'm about to plug a splitter into the sky box. I DO however have an alarm, and I have absolutely no clue if this will tie into the phone lines... I cant get past the way the speed test runs, within the first split second of hitting "test" it shoots to 5.35 and doesn't move not one iota. Just writing an email to Orcon. Trying to word carefully as I'm not yet at a "disgruntled" point, merely a bit frustrated. What is interleaving and where do I throw mine?

The frustration I have is that I can't play in any over seas servers without getting a huuuuggeee ping. The closest I can play with acceptable ping (average 170 - 190) is freakin Australia! I dont know whether or not the issue lies with Sky, as the internet does work, and works fairly well. Are these the speeds I should be getting? Or SHOULD I be getting higher speeds?

Thanks for the above comments. I will soon be talking to Orcon, in regards to Heath's comment, things like load on the line, just myself and occasionally a laptop ( browsing only ) speeds are consistant no matter what time of the day, peak or off peak. I will try the other steps after I've contacted Orcon.

Ah, that would work, but I am on Orcon Purple+, I dont have a home line. Using contract cell phone so having a homeline would be surplus.

Sighting the recent topics of internet speeds in the OT section I thought I would start to investigate mine. The result I had posted in that section was from a while ago, haven't had the chance to test the home connection until now; I've just run a test which is current and have edited my post accordingly. I am with Orcon, using their ADSL+ services with a 50GB bandwidth limit. When I first joined I was getting a fairly consistent 8 - 9MBPS down, and always (never changes) 700 - 800KBPS up. At some times my router even reported 12 - 14MBPS. My router reports as follows: Downstream rate: 6228 kbps Upstream rate: 1020 kbps Maximum line rate: 6204 kbps (downstream) / 1276 kbps (upstream) Noise margin: 5.7 dB (downstream) / 16.6 dB (upstream) Line attenuation: 31.3 dB (downstream) / 16.1 dB (upstream) My maximum line rate is completely in-consistent. When on the occasion it has spiked, (and I dont mean a momentary increase in download speeeds, this will "spike" for an hour or two) the router has declared that the line rate is infact much higher. The line rate is only ever as fast as my speed is. Speedtest.net reports the following: When running speed test it will absolutely NOT go past 5.35mbps. It reaches this at a flash, and seems as though its capped off. Using the new Pingtest.net I am getting very good pings, and it is reporting I have a very good line. The reason for this detailed break down? I have come to the conclusion that by all reasonings, my speed should be faster, surely? I have acceptable line attenuation, indicating I am not a huge distance away from the exchange. I'm using a very good router, (Orcon home hub, which is infact a Siemens) AND my line seems to be in good shape. (minimum noise, down at least) I haven't contacted Orcon about this yet as I thought I would just ask a few questions here. I'm not disappointed with their services, I find their CSR's quite helpful and there's minumum outages for me. I am keen to get faster speeds as there are games I'm struggling to play online like MGO, where for some reason they have categorized NZ with the Europe gaming regions, I don't get fast speeds here, let alone international speeds. So what should I do? Is there anything I can try on my end before I start emailing Orcon? Am I correct in assuming I should have faster (at least slightly) speeds than what I am currently seeing? I know its capable/possible but it seems I've been capped, and these speeds are ADSL1 speeds. The other issue I am wanting advice on. Earlier in the year we had SKY TV installed at our house, they did their usual stuff, and also installed another phone jack to plug the decoder into. In order to do this they COMPLETELY massacred the original phone jack that they used. (It had to be opened up, and another line now runs from it half way across the lounge to a new one near the decoder) I haven't really looked into it until now, as I am investigating my internet, I would like to use this jack for my router, as its about 2 rooms closer to where the router is now (bedroom) The computer is in the lounge. The router is in the bedroom because none of the other jacks (including the one for the sky decoder) will work. Am I within my rights to call sky and have them fix my jack(s) free of charge? I also cant order movies through the decoder etc etc. Any advice, info would be great. I'm paying for ADSL2 and getting ADSL 1 speeds, and have had sky butcher phone jacks in our house. What to do...?

Happy Birthday Glenn!!!!

Open sesame?

HB !!!

^ Holy sh*t balls! Is your uni living inside an exchange box?!

Yes I read this too, I'm going to take apart the first window motor and see if the ring has slipped, at least there is one in the car already, this would also explain why it works with a 12V current running through it as there is no circuit breaker.

Alex here, I've carried out a few tests, checked the door jam switch (switch inside the hook on the body not door). The only thing to note with that switch is that the window will not go UP unless the switch is deperessed (door closed) but will go down (bit by bit) Also, the motor and regulator are fine, I have tested them with 12 volts and they move freely up and down. Tested all the electrics, its simply not delivering a stream of power, it's delivering voltage in "bursts". Which makes me think its to do with a relay or something similar. Have also tested both switches, and tried different ones, this is not the problem.

So Alex and I have been spending the afternoon putting in new electric window regulators, motors and sliders in my car... The passenger has always had the window that would only wind up or down about one inch at the time so you have to press the up or down button about 16 times to get it fully open or fully closed. We have just put in the new regulator and motor and sliders yet the window still does the inch at a time thing.. grr. So I have come to the conclusion that it is the passenger electric window relay. So what I am asking is, where is the relay (I dont mean the relays in the box in the engine bay (I dont think) Or does anyone else know what could be causing this problem? Cheers Ryan , not alex

LOL yess and also my relatives in Chapman (population < 1000 ) hahahah. Crazy hilly billys.

Mine has fluctuated and sometimes its up at around 11 - 12mbps but this is the average. How come the US average is so slow?

Happy birthday!

Good stuff! Looks great, seems like RaceFX are doing good work on a few cars at the mo! Top stuff James.

I know you had a bad experience with your stroker, however I dont think this means that all E blocks are going to be crap, as we have all learnt years, or age on a motor or car in general are often irrelevant, it's all about how its been treated, if proper care has been taken, or if its been thrashed to hell and back. There are good blocks around and a stroker is a good value for money upgrade.