How Fast is your Internet?

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Re: How Fast is your Internet?

The attenuation figures are what you would expect on a normal ADSL line, even the noise figure is okay. You would hope for about 6db but that's splitting hairs.

Is the speed consistent at this level or does it vary wildly. If it's the latter then perhaps there is an issue with the external drop wire. I had a similar issue on an old BT ADSL connection.

I'm very luck with the speed on my connection

Hi,

Speed (as per the router stats) seem to stay the same unless I have to re-boot the router for whatever reason.
Was watching the noise last night when it was playing up badly and it was at 9db, then occasionally would drop to 6db before going back to 9db again ?

Seems better today so maybe there was a problem at the exchange.

Noise is today 7db up and 8db down, everything else the same as after the re-boot last night i.e.

speed 2985/710
atten 56/18.5

[mauijim]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

Mine:

From router:

Connection = down 3019 kbps, up 774 kbps
Line Attenuation = down 58db, up 18.5db
Noise margin = down 7db, up 8db

Speedtest.net

DL = 2.63 mbps
Up = 0.64 mbps
Ping 57ms

The attenuation figures are what you would expect on a normal ADSL line, even the noise figure is okay. You would hope for about 6db but that's splitting hairs.

Is the speed consistent at this level or does it vary wildly. If it's the latter then perhaps there is an issue with the external drop wire. I had a similar issue on an old BT ADSL connection.

I'm very luck with the speed on my connection

[lookingforward]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

i cant see rebooting mucking up your speed, if anything it can help to fix it.

I know in the past with virgin ive had very slow speeds, only to reboot my modem and its cleared and fast again.

ADSL connections tend to get restricted during peak times due to usage, always a bummer.

Best bet is to speed test late at night and see what the details are.

Whatever the article was, I think it was more about re-booting a lot buggered up the synch speeds or something
Will try the speed test when I'm up later at the weekend

[SXGuy]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

i cant see rebooting mucking up your speed, if anything it can help to fix it.

I know in the past with virgin ive had very slow speeds, only to reboot my modem and its cleared and fast again.

ADSL connections tend to get restricted during peak times due to usage, always a bummer.

Best bet is to speed test late at night and see what the details are.

[lookingforward]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

Thanks everyone, it's not a new socket, it has the front that you have to unscrew to get to the test socket.

Some history in case it's relevent.

The socket was up until recently in a back room of the house and the cabling ran under the carpet alongside the carper grabbers. Earlier in the year the internet was disconnecting all the time, with crackle on the phone line and when I checked the line, the cable had moved over time and in some places was punctured by the spkes of the grabbers.

Didn't need the socket in the back room anymore so cut the cable to where it hadn't been damaged and re-wired back into the socket which is now near front door.

That was about 6 weeks ago and it's been running fine up until the last couple of days when it's been slow. I've just re-booted the router and it seems better now, albeit showing the following

up 2985 kbps
down 710 kbps
Line attenuation 56 down 18.5 up
noise 9db down 8db up


So a bit slower than the other day in theory.

We are a fair distance from the exchange so won't get the fantastic speeds some of you are posting. Hopefully the re-boot has done the trick, I read somewhere that you shouldn't re-boot a lot becasue it mucks up your speed.

[MrsD]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

we had this problem with Plusnet, sloooooowwww, they maintained it wasn't their fault, we changed provider to Sky and low and behold, no slow downs, decent speeds all round, makes you wonder??????????

[SXGuy]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

tried unplugging the ADSL Filter and plugging an analogue phone in test socket (what is the dial tone sound like?)

need to work backwards

Dont forget, if the phone socket is quite new it would have a filter in built, or better yet, the bell wire will be detached so may not need a filter, infact im wondering if a filter could slow the data speed if its not needed?

[5corpio]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

if there is crackle down the line, then it may be the Line faulty and should be replaced by your line provider

[lookingforward]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

Will give that a go (need to borrow an anologue phone off my Mum).

Thx

[5corpio]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

tried unplugging the ADSL Filter and plugging an analogue phone in test socket (what is the dial tone sound like?)

need to work backwards

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Re: How Fast is your Internet?

Mine:

From router:

Connection = down 3019 kbps, up 774 kbps
Line Attenuation = down 58db, up 18.5db
Noise margin = down 7db, up 8db

Speedtest.net

DL = 2.63 mbps
Up = 0.64 mbps
Ping 57ms

Nothing I can do to speed this up is there ?
It's been playing up something chronic this afternoon, taking an age to load pages, then seemingly back to normal before slowing down again.
Router shows no problems (in as much as I understand what it's telling me), no collisions, same speed as reported above etc

[lookingforward]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

Mine:

From router:

Connection = down 3019 kbps, up 774 kbps
Line Attenuation = down 58db, up 18.5db
Noise margin = down 7db, up 8db

Speedtest.net

DL = 2.63 mbps
Up = 0.64 mbps
Ping 57ms

[SXGuy]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

At my mothers, ive got virgin 60meg fibre optic, although there so called superhub keeps restarting in wireless router mode, so i have had to switch it to modem mode and connect it to my old wireless N router lol.

But at my home, i have sky up to 20meg, but i never get more than 4.5

so after a complete fucking nightmare with a "simple" sky installation I ended up talking to their technical department and after explaining to them _how_ ADSL works including line noise, line length and attenuation they finally put my sync speed at something sensible ... So it will fluctuate over the next few days .. but ....



lets hope it sits tidy now on that, and I will be a happy bunny.

You seem to know your stuff and your getting good speeds with sky, so wondered if you might throw me a little advice.

Recently updated my primary telephone socket to the latest BT (Think its called NET5?) with a built in bell wire filter. Thats got my telephone plugged straight in to it, and ive got an extension connected that runs through to my livingroom, where i have a filter connected and my sky router and digi box is attached to that.

Do you think there is anything else i could do to increase my speed? i thought about connecting an i-Plate to the primary box, but after reading some reviews, people think its not worth it since its filtered already, whats your take on it?

[philnicandamy]

Re: How Fast is your Internet?

sheesh.....2yrs thankfully now we were the last area to be virgin upgraded to digital....before that we had an old cranky tv box and a 56k modem!!!!!!

10mb now and soooooo thankful for it

[Riz]

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I keep wondering whether to have a moan about mine.

It did used to be about 16Mb when first set up, but the speed and sync speed seemed to have gradually dropped over time.

Well, I seemed to have gained a couple of Mb/s of sync and downstream speed since yesterday....

Not complaining though.