Any room for improvement???

[ryan1988]

Thanks for your reply. Yes I thought it was strange that the upload speed went up and download went down but If thats the best I can get with BTs old lines then I would definately consider the fiber. I have registered interest for this. Its always annoying though to be on an up to 20mb deal and gettin 5 and then a fibre package that costs alot more. I wish virgin actually provided in my area. I always disagree with the whole line rental thing, renting lines that are old and never upgraded to handle more services.

If fiber is my last option I will look forward to when it comes out and maybe they will do me a deal

rant over apologies

[pengy_666]

Unfortunately they say 20mb and we all know you aren't going to get it. My dad lives literally 35 second walk from the exchange and gets 22mb on his standard free internet!

Its the luck of the draw. If you are on the tail end of the line even from the exchange, even with GREAT quality lines you wont achieve 20mb.

[Isitme]

My dad lives literally 35 second walk from the exchange and gets 22mb on his standard free internet!

That makes you first sentence wrong, it should be you are unlikely to get it. The further you are from the exchange the lower your speed will be, until you get fibre and then the further you are from your cabinet, the lower your speed will be, irrespective of how far you are from the exchange.

[pengy_666]

Sorry, My bad. You aren't likely to. Then I was pointing out some of the factors to consider.

What I was saying was that they say "upto" 20mb not you will get. Then I was emphasising that its relative to many factors one being the distance from the exchange you connect to, Then further explained that my dad gets 22mb as he is 300 yards (guestimate) from the exchange and I am probably 1/4 mile away and get 15mb

[marcostig]

iv got the exact same as you got to 6.200 mb then went down to 5.022 mb give up now just cant get no more,used to have 12mb on my cable set up same line stats as you least it is stable and no dropouts.

[ryan1988]

It is very frustrating the sub standard speeds we are still getting in this day lol. Having 3 laptops running at the same time means no sky anytime+ and very slow responses and thats with the wireless n router and wireless n laptop card upgrades.

When the agent put it to 8mb and the stats was showing over 6mb there was actually a great improvement and overall quality of service. It's a shame though that it has dropped again as this would have made a great difference having 6mb. Although unfortunately the stats have dropped again

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collisions	Tx B/s	Rx B/s	Up Time
WAN	MER	94471	25164341	0	10464	0	9:52:46
LAN	Up	6206335	3352474	0	516869	12447	570:56:14
WLAN	Up	20534082	17147352	0	0	0	498:43:25

ADSL Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	4928 kbps	798 kbps
Line Attenuation	44.5 dB	25.9 dB
Noise Margin	8.1 dB	13.2 dB

Would this be due to DLM? And do you think it will go back up slightly, I am still in my test socket. Also I have registered interest in fiber. Should I then as another poster said just put up with this as it may be all I can get or as someone else said should I pursue it one last time to see if there are any other problems like corrosion on the connections outside at the pole or the box??

Thanks for the replies!

[Isitme]

It looks like you resynced around 2am so DLM is probably running. I think your speed will probably go back up, maybe not to 6 Mb, but fairly close.

[ryan1988]

Thats excellent news! I really hope it even goes back to over 5mb "Heres hoping"

[ryan1988]

Just a quick update today. I see it must be trying its best but I dare say it will come down going by that noise margin:

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collisions	Tx B/s	Rx B/s	Up Time
WAN	MER	10837	25955636	0	29	0	6:52:53
LAN	Up	6450305	3504168	0	7156	864	592:02:07
WLAN	Up	21150250	17899637	0	70	0	519:49:18

ADSL Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	6143 kbps	798 kbps
Line Attenuation	44.5 dB	25.9 dB
Noise Margin	2.8 dB	12.4 dB

[Scubbie]

It may pay to call Sky to see if someone can manually change your line to 'G.DMT' (aka ADSL1). You are in the zone where ADSL1 can produce a faster connection than ADSL2+.

However, FTTC is available at your exchange. Provided that you have an FTTC cabinet nearby, then you should be able to order SBUF from this Thursday and get around 8 times the download speed.