Just Connected

[Ssscrudddy]

Just got connected today. New phone line. 1 mile straight line from exchange, 1.5 miles by road.



Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN MER 30436 53939 0 4365902 76533477 0:14:56
LAN Up 56336 32564 0 78515831 4758300 0:15:41
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4095 kbps 605 kbps
Line Attenuation 39.5 dB 23.3 dB
Noise Margin 12.8 dB 17.1 dB

So after 10 days, what speeds do you think I will achieve please, I was estimated 5 - 7.

[IWasNotTheEnemy]

Sounds about right, you're more than 1.5 miles away though (or you've got a bad line)

[Ssscrudddy]

mmm thanks, it is 1.5 miles away by road. Its a brand new phone line with nothing on it, not even a phone. I thought that was the default starting speed, I was hoping you would say something along the lines of "Yeah expect 10 Mb" when the DLM has finished. Gutted.

Still, its better than this what I've been used to


Thanks

[IWasNotTheEnemy]

Even by road, you're further than 1.5 miles - 2.5 I'd say going by that attenuation

[Ssscrudddy]

OK fair enough. I live in an unusual place, the phone line probably doesnt follow ther road, I reckon it comes in from an estate at the back of the property, big old mansion house in the middle of the park, & there's probably about 300 metres of wire just going around the house from the telegraph pole.

Thanks again. Think I'll go to the pub & drown my sorrows. lol. Still 7x better than what I was getting!

[Isitme]

With a bit of luck I think you will get 8-9Mb, 10, if your line is very good

[Ssscrudddy]

Thanks for moving my thread to its own thread. I'm used to forums where they tell you off for creating new threads when there is already an existing thread that will suffice. I didnt mean to highjack someone elses thread.

Anyway DLM has now started. Day 1

System Up Time: 15:05:53
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN MER 3346 185722 0 1744875 246785476 2:42:20
LAN Up 186830 113085 0 246434436 13457966 15:05:53
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 8624 kbps 945 kbps
Line Attenuation 39.0 dB 23.4 dB
Noise Margin 7.8 dB 12.1 dB

[Isitme]

We find that adding to another thread causes confusion and you get posts like "are you replying to me or so and so"

You have made a good start, looks like you will get 9+Mb and 1.1 up

[Ssscrudddy]

Day 2

Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN MER 8145 1039236 0 45075430 1524843192 6:59:00
LAN Up 1046712 560296 0 1529341112 48276658 21:36:02
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 8680 kbps 945 kbps
Line Attenuation 39.0 dB 23.2 dB
Noise Margin 8.7 dB 12.2 dB


Day 3
System Up Time: 44:21:14
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN MER 2866 2970031 0 613337952 2147483647 5:46:27
LAN Up 2619272 1863561 0 2147483647 1012455099 44:21:14
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 8661 kbps 945 kbps
Line Attenuation 39.0 dB 23.2 dB
Noise Margin 8.9 dB 12.0 dB


mmm it doesnt seem to be changing, so I guess Im already at what Im going to get

Day 4 no change again, so I'm gonna stop now unless I get a jump in speed.

System Up Time: 68:58:32
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN MER 84620 4434854 0 11169182 2147483647 6:25:00
LAN Up 3663553 2626464 0 175976382 1191615066 68:58:32
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 8186 kbps 798 kbps
Line Attenuation 39.0 dB 23.2 dB
Noise Margin 9.1 dB 15.9 dB

[Ssscrudddy]

Well DLM has now finished (on 6th May). Results according to MySky

Line connection testing completed on 06/05/2011

Your connection has been set to a download speed of up to
8.0Mb (8192Kb)

Your connection has been set to an upload speed of up to
0.8Mb (800Kb)

Results according to non-Sky router (seeing as wifi doesnt work yet)

Downstream 8187 (Kbps.)
Upstream 797 (Kbps.)


Noise Margin 15 dB 8 dB (Upstream - Downstream)
Attenuation 46 dB 41 dB (Upstream - Downstream)

Interleaved Path FEC Correction
Near end indicator 41
Far end indicator 380524474

Interleaved Path CRC Error
Far end indicator 863



& for the record, estimate was 5-7 Mbps

Now when DLM started, day1 - day 3, speeds were

8624-8680 down, 945 up & the connection seemed stable to me.

Day 4 onwards speeds have been around
8160 down, 798 up.
& is now what has been assigned as my permanent speed.
During this time, although I did a few reboots, most of the time wifi was turned off & router stayed permanently on. I changed my router to a non-sky router on 5th May during the day (after the speed had been dropped a bit)

So basically what can I do to get back that extra speed (8660, 945)? which I had for the first 3 days.
Also the gamers profile with the lower ping, how will that effect my speeds?

Also I ran cmd, ping bbc.co.uk & got 26ms

Edit, just for the record , this looks like I've been capped at 8 Mbps, yet I am supposed to be on Unlimited Sky LLU up to 20Mbps (I realise I probably wont get much more anyway, but thats not the point if I have been capped)
Edit again, Im using my own router which is an ancient USRobotics adsl2+... which I connected on the 5th the day before my DLM finished, did I screw this up myself by doing this