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Need advice, possibly hacking, to improve extremely low connection
Hi
I know you will need some info as to what I have in order to help me, and I will give you all of it once you tell me exactly what it is you need.
Here's my problem. I'm newly arrived in that Asian country where most of things are now made (Ch---).
I'm in an apartment bldg. and some of us get decent speeds and I definitely don't. TO the point I can not even Skype and many pages load, and load and load and then time out. And yes I am using a VPN. Doing Internet speed tests I am getting an average of 2.7Mbps download and 0.31 up.
It should go to 15 in theory.
In doing about 50 tests i managed only once to get to 7.19 once, 9.4 once 10.6 once. all other times averaged 2.7. Using the VPN only one 'country' gave me the above results. All others were so slow that it made the old 56.6 modem seem fast. three actually hovered at 0.12, not even 1/10 of 1.Mbps
Besides actually going outside and cutting wires I am in the position of trying anything. My employer has given me permission to try just about anything.
The specs I can give you now are these:
1 laptop running windows 10 and one 9-year old lenovo pc running windows xp
the modem is a "Mercury ADSL 2/2+ , MD880D'' see attached photos.