Well here in Ireland our broadband services are about 15 years behind everybody else in Europe, my isp is eircom and they have frustrated me into rages of furious anger due to their sheer incompetence and neglegence. Changing isp didn't solve anything because the other companies seemed to be worse. Ntl is improving so I might give them a go.
Killzone 2 will be out soon and if I don't manage to fix these problems before that time it's going to give me alot of problems trying to play online.
I pay for 7.6mb/s but only get 1.7mb/s during peak hours and a maximum of 3.2mb/s off peak. But that's not the big problem, the major problem is the fact that my internet cuts out on average every 15 mins if I'm trying to use it. Sometimes it says it's a DSL error. Other times the red light on the modem is on and I need to switch my modem off and on again. The first main issue that might be causing this is my modem that eircom supplied me with. A netopia wireless modem that seems to overheat alot. I have rang eircom many times but all the tell me to do is change the default channel which does nothing.
Anybody have any tips for me? Like what new modem I should get? Could the wires in my house be old and not good enough, and how can I check that? And what the secret password is that you say over the phone when talking to your isp so they know you're in the special internet club and say "oh yes sir right away" and switch your internet from suckage over to ownage?
