Re: Slow internet connection mystery!
Originally Posted by
Cheshire Cat
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Why, when I first log onto my laptop with a fully charged battery, does the internet take a long time to load? The little blue circle goes round and round UNTIL......... I plug into the mains! ? It then speeds into action!
Surely, if the battery is fully charged and not draining quickly, it should behave normally! ?
I leave my computer connected to the mains all the time and rarely use just battery, although I will do so about once per month to drain it and recharge - what Toshiba recommends.
Logically it shouldn't make any difference whether you are on mains or battery but my connection's been doing this for the past month or 6 weeks or so and I suspect that my broadband is suffering at the expense of the BT customers opposite, as most of 'em moved into their homes during that period.
Weeks before we had BT upgrading the system that feeds the left of our street only, including these new houses; the right of our street, with me included, does not get the high-speed broadband as far as I know because a near-neighbour who is a BT Customer tells me his broadband's slowed too!
I'm not BT, I'm SKY, and I know that the connections at the exchange at the top of my street are ancient and BT refuses to update it unless other providers pay them 'cos SKY have told me that. stevmk2