To cut a very long saga short, I lost my BB connection at 0130hrs Thursday.  My ISP (Nildram) told me that BT had been carrying out some work and that normal service would be resumed by morning.  Morning came and still nothing so I phoned again.  I was then given the runaround for neary three days while they "tried" to get to the root of the problem.  It turned out that they had switched from PPPOE to PPPOA and hadnt bothered telling anyone...  

Service resumed.

However, my download speed is now a maximum of 200kbs (0.2 Mbps) where it should be around 4Mb  :0hnoes: - and they cant find a reason.

• BT say the line is ok
• Ping and tracert checks seem fins (avg of 22ms).
• Router control panel reports speed as 4Mb +/-

Anyone have scooby what could be wrong here?  I have one hair left before total baldness.
 

you are now suffering from Tossacali-itis.  Welcome to the hell predicted by the doomsayers...

Im with Nildram.  Dont tell me Pisscali have bought them over?....

Nildram is owned by pipex which sold up to pisscali so yeah they have

Try a torrent though, 200-300mb see what your average is

Hmm...  there is some differences betwix MTU sizes at bit smaller in PPPOA i think.

You could try to exclude some old seldom used stuff that XP enables by default.


Right click your connection and go to properties, when properties for Intenet protocol TCP/IP and when advanced
setings /alternatives TCP/IP settings/ properties under IP filtering allow only 6 and 17.

under Wins inactivate NetBios over TCP/IP.

I found this: http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=1728

So what are the scenarios and pros /cons of each solution?

PPPoA
PPPoA sessions are terminated on the CPE. On Windows machines this results in loading a device specific driver and using either DUN or a proprietary dialer app. for modems anyway, generally USB
Many routers only support PPPoA as it is an easier protocol to implement - when you think of the fact that PPPoE is actually PPPoEoA why bother to add another layer?
PPPoA also preserves IP addresss as there is only one IP assigned.

What are the downsides? Well for providers PPPoA is a pain for support and install purposes - rather that have one client, each device has its own specific drivers. Devices can appear either as RAS devices, or NICs.

You also cannot use PPPoA with ethernet modems - there are a couple of exceptions here but once again they include loading device specific software on the clients PC.
Each PPP session requires a separate PVC. This requires configuration of the CPE and the aggregator, so no dynamic PPP sessions.

All those are ok and are what the ISP advised.

uninstall IPv6.  Seriously, if that is causing issues then dump it.  You wont need v6 until well after Windows 7 arrives anyway.  

Is it causing the issue?  It seemed fine before the switch although I dont recall if it was limited or not.  How do I uninstall it?

Should I be on public or private network?

urgh Vista.

Just open up the network connections, right click>Properties

Then click on IPv6, and press the uninstall button under the box.  Then reboot and you should have fewer issues.  Its not well integrated, and reminds me of when MS added IPv4 to NT4.  That was horribly crap as well.