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Old 24-10-06, 02:04 PM   #101
 
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Order Date: 12 October 2006
Migration from AOL
Router Arrived: 16 October 2006
Connection Due: 23 October 2006
Actually Connected: 23 October
Speed 15,336 Kbps / 766 Kbps
Distance from the exchange 0.85 Km

All in all quite painless I am pleased to report. Very easy to set up and so far speeds of 12 - 13,000 typical.

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Old 25-10-06, 05:28 PM   #102
 
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Ordered: 9th Aug
Migration:From BT Broadband 2MB
Product: SKY MAX
Router Arrived: 18th Oct
Connection Due: 25th Oct
Actually Connected: 25th Oct
Up sync speed: 766 kbps (Line Attenuation 21.2 db Noise Margin 12.0 db)
Down sync speed: 13951 kbps (Line Attenuation 37.0 db Noise Margin 7.4 db)
Distance from the exchange: 1.km

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Old 30-10-06, 12:13 PM   #103
 
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Order Date: 2nd October 2006
Migration from 'Nildram 8mb Actual speeds 3-5mb'
Router Arrived: 9th October 2006
Connection Due: 11th October 2006. On the day phone and ADSL went dead had to wait for BT to come and repair the line on the 14th. Been perfect since!
Actual Connection Date: 14th October
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 15,323 Kbps / 766 Kbps
Line Attenuation 23.5 db 17.3 db
Noise Margin 12.6 db 12.0 db
About 780m from exchange Samknows.com

Actual Download speeds 10-12,000 Kbps
Any one able to see speeds above 12mbps? I would like to hope that the advertised speeds of 16Mb are possible. Though Im not complaining Its a vast improvement to my previous ISPs, the speeds I get are constant throughout the day.

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Old 30-10-06, 01:35 PM   #104
 
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Order Date- 28th Sept
Migration from PIPEX
Router Arrived 3rd October
Connection Due 12th October
Actually Connected 27th October due to Tie End problems with line at exchange, phone was cut off for a day as well
Up sync speed 391kbps
Down sync speed Roughly 8mb
Distance from the exchange 1km

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Old 02-11-06, 09:46 PM   #105
 
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Order Date - 15th October
Router Arrived - 20th October
Connection due - 26th October
Actually connected - 26th October
Connection Speed - 7463kbps/397kbps
Line Attenuation 37db 21.2db
Noise Margin 6.8db 23.5db
Noise margin when plugged into master socket 14.1db 23.5db
Distance from exchange 1.4 miles (sorry don't do foreign metric pap)

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Old 04-11-06, 02:49 AM   #106
 
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Order Date: 24th October 2006
Migration from 'BT 2Mb"
Router Arrived: 2nd November 2006
Connection Due: 2nd November 2006
Actual Connection Date: 2nd November 2006
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Speed: 15,323 Kbps / 766 Kbps
Line Attenuation: 18.0 db / 10.1 db
Noise Margin: 14.1 db / 12.5 db

About 564m from exchange, according to http://www.samknows.com/broadband/checker2.php

Actual speed from http://www.adslguide.org/tools/speedtest.asp
12,761 Kbps Download / 643 Kbps Upload

9 days from order to activation. Activation was on time. Router arrived the same day. All worked perfectly first time. Speed is superb, as is reliability so far... I'm happy

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Old 04-11-06, 02:23 PM   #107
 
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Talking So far so Good on Kemptown BRIGHTON exchange

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Order Date : 8/10/06 - hiccup - then 18/10/06
New Connection
Router Arrived : 27/10/06
Connection Due : 3/11/06
Actually Connected : 3/11/06
Up sync speed :416kbps
Down sync speed : 4608kbps
Distance from the exchange : 3.83 km

This is weird. Installation went very smoothly - only hiccup was me accidently disabling my network card :-)

Weirder still, but just fab nonetheless, is that both Sky and BT inititally told me I would get upwards of 3000kbps, then BT realised my line was wrongly listed as old-fashioned hardwired, ie no plug and white box in the house. When they changed that, their (and Sky's and anybody else's) line speed test insisted I would get only 500-1000kbps.

I've just tried the DSLZone.uk line test which still says 500kbps, but here I am (so far) steadily pulling in 4000kbps + :-) :-)

From ADSLGuide.org.uk:

Downstream 3,860.7 Kbps ( = 3.8 Mbps )
Upstream 349.4 Kbps ( = 0.3 Mbps )

From the Netgear Router Status page:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4608 kbps 416 kbps
Line Attenuation 55.0 db 31.5 db
Noise Margin 7.0 db 14.0 db



And then, immediately after a soft reboot....



*** Update ***

Just installed an XTE2500, specs are now:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4576 kbps 416 kbps
Line Attenuation 56.0 db 31.5 db
Noise Margin 7.6 db 13.0 db



Which as you can see, has made bugger-all difference :-)

Last edited by le.bouch; 06-11-06 at 02:18 PM.. Reason: Further testing

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Old 08-11-06, 03:39 PM   #108
 
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Order Date - 25.10.06
New Connection or Migration - Migration from Plusnet
Router Arrived - 7.11.06
Connection Due - 3.11.06
Actually Connected - Hmmm. Well, the migration happened on the 3rd, but as the router hadn't even been sent out then, I didn't get connected until 7.11.06 - pm.
Up sync speed - 448
Down sync speed - 2784 (according to the router, but according to various "speed tests" closer to 1400).
Distance from the exchange - just over 3km "ish"

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Old 08-11-06, 05:20 PM   #109
 
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