Techwood2177 Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Hi guys, I use this: http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping test to monitor my connection (among other ways) rather than the typical speedtest sites. I usually find if I poke my ISP with data from here they are pretty prompt about sending someone out to deal with any issues I'm having. I'm just a little curious what you guys think of this test and can you tell me if it seems to you to be a good way of monitoring connection? I ask this because website tests get a fair amount of flak for being inaccurate and or misleading and it'd be good to know how this one measures up. Thanks, T.W. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted August 27, 2015 Share Posted August 27, 2015 Thinkbroadband is a great site and this is a great tool there is also pingplotter if you have not used that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwood2177 Posted August 27, 2015 Author Share Posted August 27, 2015 Great to know thanks! I'll check out pingplotter too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukasz Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Yebs i had use that to monitor my jittery some days ago when i was fixing my isp problems. Thats is good one remmeber also to use the R1 Internet diagnostic as well . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwood2177 Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 I'm also curious about the system Virgin have just put in place to expand their wifi services by asking if they can use our hubs to boost signals. I say "ask" but what I mean is they are doing it anyway and simply informed us with an option to opt out. They claim to be able to set up separate connections through our hubs that won't affect our current connections wireless or cabled. As you can imagine there are a few of us a little concerned about this and have opted out vocally within their forums as well as via our accounts. But in their terms of service it says nothing about opting out meaning they'll not use our hubs. It only says we will not have access to the service while out and about in an area that supports it. Got any thoughts on this at all? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zennon Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 BT have done this for years with BT fon. If you opt out of theirs you lose the right to use it outside also. Opt out it is a horible idea in my book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Techwood2177 Posted August 28, 2015 Author Share Posted August 28, 2015 As I understand it they can't use your hub if you run it in modem mode anyway. Does the R1 require that be the case? Or do you keep using the hub as a pass through router? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lukasz Posted August 28, 2015 Share Posted August 28, 2015 Well i am Virgin media customer. I am on 100 mb plan so i put mine in mode mode as there is no problems for me using R1 as my primary router. Though with your Plan you would get slightly less speeds. I think its about 120 mb that R1 can currently squize. As well as loosing 5 Ghz Wireless network. R1 supports only 2.4. Now the speed thing will be address in the new update to Netduma software( No date know for now when it will be released ) though the 2.4 wireless its a hardware limitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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