I waited years for NTL to dig up my road an install their tasty fibre optics, I used their service for 3 years with no problems and a huge smile on my face....then I moved house.
I'm in a rented flat with no cable access, so I've had to go with BTs (*spit*) ADSL (*throat clearing, gruff resonance, spit*). This obviously entailed abandoning my cable modem (£150), my Netgear network card (£20), my cable/TV package (£20/£20 respectively) and pay 50% extra to BT for a lesser service. (/RANT).
I thought BTs ADSL would be a temp arrangement for me and I would soon be back on with NTL, so I bought the cheapest (and nastiest) ADSL modem I could....the PCI ADSL Accessrunner (£30). *sigh*
A year into using ADSL and my connection's getting worse. My connection used to drop occasionally, probably about once or twice every other night - which wasn't too bad (compare that to NTLs: once every 6 months). Over the past few months it's increased and I now get dropped connections 5,6,7....times a night.
As a gamer, it's beyond bad - and I need to sort this out.
I've searched for help but all I could surmise is that my modem's sh*t, most notably because of the firmware - or lack of firmware updates (apparently).
I read that I might need to get an ADSL router (?) with firmware that I could flash, but I know very little about the setup or the products.
Since I've just been paid, I want to go out tomorrow and buy some kit and I know it would take me ages researching all this.
Does anyone out there know what I need?
help!
PS my budget for this is £100 < £150.
I'm in a rented flat with no cable access, so I've had to go with BTs (*spit*) ADSL (*throat clearing, gruff resonance, spit*). This obviously entailed abandoning my cable modem (£150), my Netgear network card (£20), my cable/TV package (£20/£20 respectively) and pay 50% extra to BT for a lesser service. (/RANT).
I thought BTs ADSL would be a temp arrangement for me and I would soon be back on with NTL, so I bought the cheapest (and nastiest) ADSL modem I could....the PCI ADSL Accessrunner (£30). *sigh*
A year into using ADSL and my connection's getting worse. My connection used to drop occasionally, probably about once or twice every other night - which wasn't too bad (compare that to NTLs: once every 6 months). Over the past few months it's increased and I now get dropped connections 5,6,7....times a night.
As a gamer, it's beyond bad - and I need to sort this out.
I've searched for help but all I could surmise is that my modem's sh*t, most notably because of the firmware - or lack of firmware updates (apparently).
I read that I might need to get an ADSL router (?) with firmware that I could flash, but I know very little about the setup or the products.
Since I've just been paid, I want to go out tomorrow and buy some kit and I know it would take me ages researching all this.
Does anyone out there know what I need?
help!
PS my budget for this is £100 < £150.