Can anyone help a newbie?!

[funkygeeza]

Hi there

I've just become a Sky MAX customer and would be grateful of some advice.

According to DSLZone I'm only around 610 metres from my local exchange (as the crow flies).

The Sky/Netgear router is reporting the following stats:

Connection Speed 8096 kbps / 768 kbps
Line Attenuation 20.0 db / 14.0 db
Noise Margin 15.8 db / 14.0 db

And SpeetTest.net is giving me the following results:



Is this what I should be expecting or is there cause for concern? Are there any settings on the PC or router that I should adjust/tweak? Any feedback would be very much appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Ben

[reddwarfcrew]

Nope, get on to Sky as they have capped you. I would expect you would get the full 16Mb (or close to it).

Your noise margin is certainly high enough which proves that you should be able to get the real speed that your attenuation is capable of.

[funkygeeza]

okay will do. didn't think that sounded right somehow! how can they 'cap' someone who's only just been made live?! i've not even started using and p2p software or anything yet! all ive done is chat on msn and check myspace and emails mostly!

[Saturday]

Capping isn't done to limit people's usage it is done to reduce errors on problem lines. Presumably Sky found line problems when they connected you - this is usually but not always the reason. Sometimes they make mistakes.

Have a look at the router stats forum. You'll find out how to get your full stats which will show line errors as well as reading how you might reduce them if they are there (the cabling and faceplate help forum covers this in more detail).

Do bear in mind though that capping is done to reduce errors so your line may show low levels now which would be much higher uncapped.