Hi to everyone
A while ago my connection went off for a few days and when I phoned Virgin,they said that they were doing maintenance work.(Was not long after the IP4 address running out completely).
After it went back on,my page load times at least doubled,quadroupled on some sites.I'm pretty familiar with tweaking my connection,so I tried different RWINS,TTL's etc. to no effect,anything but my current config either made it stay the same or made worse.
The ping is really good on speedtests(12 - 32) but the advertised speed does get up to it, but takes ages to get there,when I download normal files 5 - 30 meg,it rarely gets past half speed.
I phoned Virgin again,they basically said there was nothing wrong it must be my end(Grrr)and started going thru all obvious stuff I'd done loads of times(I'm sure u know what i mean,with their checklist);they assured me I was not sharing an IP(My ip did change)and everything is still the same.I even upgraded to 30Mb instead of 10 and pages still take same AMOUNT of time to load as when I was on the lower rate.I got a wireless router with it (Netgear g480)
I have Windows 7(which I've re-installed since it happened)x86,use firefox and chrome and eset smart security at the mo(this has changed since it happened aswell)
ThanxWhy would you "TWEAK" your network settings? Did you reset everything back to the default values? Otherwise there's simply no comparing ...

Bit of a strange question,I tweak my settings because the default settings cater for dial up connections,the rwin is much to low at default and my connection top speed and ping AND page load times are better,have proved it on many occasions,my win7 has always been tweaked LIKE that,and run sometimes better than supposed to be.I always get 32 mb top speed and min. 3.5 upload which is over my advertised speed of 30/3.I get 28mb down and sometimes 2mb up at default values at best.
I think I'm in the wrong place if u ask why I would tweak my connection,thanx for reply anywayMy point is that you should reset everything back to its default settings and then restart the modem to start from scratch. It was not a question.

I'm sure you consider yourself quite the master tweaker but there's a reason the default settings are the default settings.
No one can help you if you got all sorts of customised settings going on.

Not only that, I don't think 2.5 through 15Mbit is all that low for an ADSL connection so what's the PROBLEM here if Virgin says there is none?
Well, I assume you have ADSL. You called it "dial-up" which I seriously doubt you'd have. Although it'd be quite COMMENDABLE if you managed to tweak dial-up to download at ADSL speeds.