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Well shack, this is when I have sympathy for those people on the end of a support line.
Idle googling suggests (and it's a guess) that you have a FreeBox HD set top box connecting you to the internet. Well, another guess is that this is a proprietory type solution. The manual is here and it's a PDF and in French. ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/support/MANUEL...-BOITIER-A.pdf
Section 4.5.4 says you can mess with the ping but you need to login to the box.
Basically all I would suggest is connect via a cable and not WIFI. Reboot your box (how to do that is in the manual, in French) and reboot your PC. Lame eh? Then type
ipconfig /renew
in your DOS shell.
If that doesn't work then prepare to pay 34c per minute to speak to support line which I am sure is happier to speak in French than English.
Idle googling suggests (and it's a guess) that you have a FreeBox HD set top box connecting you to the internet. Well, another guess is that this is a proprietory type solution. The manual is here and it's a PDF and in French. ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/support/MANUEL...-BOITIER-A.pdf
Section 4.5.4 says you can mess with the ping but you need to login to the box.
Basically all I would suggest is connect via a cable and not WIFI. Reboot your box (how to do that is in the manual, in French) and reboot your PC. Lame eh? Then type
ipconfig /renew
in your DOS shell.
If that doesn't work then prepare to pay 34c per minute to speak to support line which I am sure is happier to speak in French than English.
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Thanks slim-slag, why didn't I think of that (because you're stupid I hear from several ex-Service people on Pprune).
Having rebooted etc. there is a definite improvement--I still do not understand all the ping jazz, but there. I was much happier with my Netgear router but I have to use the Freebox to get my free telephone calls to most of the civilised world.
Thanks also to Blackace
Having rebooted etc. there is a definite improvement--I still do not understand all the ping jazz, but there. I was much happier with my Netgear router but I have to use the Freebox to get my free telephone calls to most of the civilised world.
Thanks also to Blackace
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Broadband question
My broadband speed has been very variable recently - it usually runs around 6Mb, but of late has been anywhere between 700k & 2.5Mb. Time of day doesn't seem to play much of a factor in it. If I moved to a different ISP, could the speed be more stable, or is it a function of the BT line in our village?
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but I have to use the Freebox to get my free telephone calls to most of the civilised world.