Issues with slow connections

[Stephen Coates]

You purchased a separate modem? Why not a combined one? What router are you using with it? That could affect the overall performance.

So, from what you are saying you can only manage the modem when connecting it directly to a PC to configure the connection and see what current download/upload speed it is connected it? That's quite limiting if that's right.

Yes, its a separate modem, like my old one. I'm using my old Buffalo WBR2-G54 router. It doesn't seem to make any difference to the speed.

It does indeed seem peculiar that you cannot access the modem's stats when it is connected to a router. But you aren't missing out on any configuration, as there hardly is any.

[Stephen Coates]

It finally speeded up. I thought it would if I gave the telephone line a while to adjust to the new modem.

I went on speedtest.net and got 14.15Mbps download and 0.41Mbps upload . I've been downloading some YouTube videos and got about 1.4MBps. Not bad for DSL.