Speed loss

I understand that the router has to probe its connection to get the best speed.

It could that theat accounts for the lower speed recorded today at 08.53.

Or is it a traffic issue with all the businesses going online?

I can't think it's that - this is the Woolwich Exchange after all.

Be Unlimited broadband

Changed ISP

I have left Virgin Media (VM) and opted for Be Unlimited. What I am getting is better than Virgin in terms of speed so far but obviously isn't touching the 11mb or so I was hoping for.

Virgin were promising free speed upgrades from 4mb and 10mb but they announced this at the turn of the year and still it hasn't materialised. The retention gorilla kept stating that I did have 10mb and it is that kind of attitude I am glad to have put behind me.

I will look at increasing speed - special faceplates are all the rage on the Be Forums - if I don't like it I will either drop to a 12 month 8mb max or switch to an O2 package (it's the same network - I would have to give three months notice and send back the Be Box). I am currently on a relaxing 3 months notice contract - so relaxing it is probably worth the little extra despite the 7Mb/s maximum I am getting now. The upload speed is amazingly good compared to Virgin. And of course there is no traffic calming. I only might have got close to it once with VM but the download allowance before they reduced your speed was fairly stingy. So loads of iPlayer stuff when I am in Windows. Hurrah!

And then of course there is Phorm - the evil Phorm that VM are too pig-headed to act swiftly on.

Hopefully things will improve with them - its not impossible I will back with VM. But that's for the future now. possibly the very distant future.

Loving the service from Be so far.

Oh yeah and Hardy Heron is great fun too.

Hardy Heron ubuntu Virgin Media Be Unlimited Phorm broadband

I have been trying the latest version of Ubuntu recently (hardy Heron 8.04 LTS). I did a fresh install as usual some things that worked in the earlier version don't work quite as well in the new version. F-spot that has always had problems on this machine have had more problems with the new OS. It can't "slide-show" - it just gets a blank screen. Full screen mode works but you cannot exit from it without it crashing. It crashes with other odd procedures it nearly always crashes/closes after an import- I have noticed that the tag items drag and drop is much better though.

i have installed picasa as a backup up but will persevere with F-spot for a bit longer - it is open source after all and should be favoured.

Overall I like the polish of Hardy - it is the best looking out of the box. It seemed that the borders were too big at first (black ones on the monitor) and I have had trouble getting it 100% perfect. When it was originally installed it opted for a lower res - normally Ubuntu gets it right first time.

Firefox 3.0b is the browser and very nice - am I missing something or is quick find not supposed to be there any more?

hardy heron f-spot ubuntu