Hello, thank you if you help me and read this.
So, for about a year now, every day, my internet decides to stop working. It just turns itself off with no warning until I get disconnected from a game, or the Skype call decides to end itself. My only way to temporarily fix this problem is resetting the router, I am far away so it is incredibly annoying and it sometimes goes down again half an hour or so after it's previous fail.
So I have tried to bargain with my dad, but he doesn't want to get a different internet that doesn't always go down mainly because he can't be bothered. So, I was thinking that, if I find a different ISP or something for my house (please someone explain as I don't know how this works) for around the same price I could persuade him to change. We have a;ready tried changing the router to no avail. We have an AOL broadband router right now and that is our ISP (I think).
Now for the questions.
1. How do I find other ISPs to switch to?
2. Will it fix my internet problem?
3. How do I know my ISP? I have used speed-test and it says talktalk next to my IP, but my dad says he pays the bill to AOL? Can someone explain this?
I live in the UK, near London (hour and a half away).
If there is a website where you can enter you address and find ISPs you can switch to that would be great. A friend who lives in the same village has 8x faster internet that never goes down, so I am pretty sure I can change to a better more reliable ISP.
Thanks a lot for reading.
So, for about a year now, every day, my internet decides to stop working. It just turns itself off with no warning until I get disconnected from a game, or the Skype call decides to end itself. My only way to temporarily fix this problem is resetting the router, I am far away so it is incredibly annoying and it sometimes goes down again half an hour or so after it's previous fail.
So I have tried to bargain with my dad, but he doesn't want to get a different internet that doesn't always go down mainly because he can't be bothered. So, I was thinking that, if I find a different ISP or something for my house (please someone explain as I don't know how this works) for around the same price I could persuade him to change. We have a;ready tried changing the router to no avail. We have an AOL broadband router right now and that is our ISP (I think).
Now for the questions.
1. How do I find other ISPs to switch to?
2. Will it fix my internet problem?
3. How do I know my ISP? I have used speed-test and it says talktalk next to my IP, but my dad says he pays the bill to AOL? Can someone explain this?
I live in the UK, near London (hour and a half away).
If there is a website where you can enter you address and find ISPs you can switch to that would be great. A friend who lives in the same village has 8x faster internet that never goes down, so I am pretty sure I can change to a better more reliable ISP.
Thanks a lot for reading.
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