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Before I ring up BT

Hunter px1 · 2008-12-18 21:59:30

Can anyone tell me how i have a better ping and distance to Galways Hub when I live in Dublin city center. I dont want to ring up and sound like an idiot asking as to why speedtest has me as living near galway. At the moment i cant even listen to streaming winamp south casts, stops every 5-10sec to buffer on a 96kbps…

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18-12-2008 10:59pm

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Hunter px1

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Can anyone tell me how i have a better ping and distance to Galways Hub when I live in Dublin city center. I dont want to ring up and sound like an idiot asking as to why speedtest has me as living near galway.

At the moment i cant even listen to streaming winamp south casts, stops every 5-10sec to buffer on a 96kbps stream

That is BTs 24mb, also just to add, I live about 4min walk from the whitehall exchange and that is the speeds i get.

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#2 18-12-2008 11:21pm
Sponge Bob

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Never mind speedtest ( select a different one anyway by clicky on triangle method )

give us line stats

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#3 18-12-2008 11:27pm
Jonathan

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All to do with how they route their traffic.

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