Help with poor download speeds please?

[moldirox]

System Up Time 26:54:27
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 54900 66553 0 170 1173 16:43:32
LAN 10M/100M 2078 0 0 6 0 26:54:25
WLAN 11M/54M 133093 112071 0 1374 218 26:54:15


ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2720 kbps 768 kbps
Line Attenuation 54.0 db 31.5 db
Noise Margin 7.7 db 11.0 db


Does anyone have any suggestions to help me with my poor sky max speeds please?

Thanks

[chrisypea]

Hey again

Your downspeed sync to the exchange is significantly higher than the results you are getting from speedtest.net and so you should be able to make improvents on this speed.

However, your high line attenuation (due to your long wired distance from the exchange) means you will never get anywhere near the advertised speeds for max.

Are you connecting wirelessly or wired?

Also, am I right in thinking you mentioned you tweaked your TCP/IP settings on the other thread?

Last question, what colour is your router?

[moldirox]

Hi again!

Thanks for your reply.

I am connecting wirelessly and yes I did tweak my settings with tcp optimiser.
My router is the netgear one that came with sky - white with silver edging strip all around - ???

By the way, my speed does improve and then drop alot.

[richone54]

could you post some detailed stats

(see second link in my sig)

[chrisypea]

To make sure this isn't a wireless issue, could you please connect through a wire and see if the speed increases?

[moldirox]

Detailed stats - I hope :

/usr/sbin/adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime Channel: INTR, Upstream rate = 768 Kbps, Downstream rate = 2720 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: G.DMT
Channel: Interleave
Trellis: ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 7.3 11.0
Attn(dB): 54.0 31.5
Pwr(dBm): 17.9 12.5
Max(Kbps): 3072 992
Rate (Kbps): 2720 768
G.dmt framing
K: 86(0) 25
R: 16 16
S: 2 8
D: 64 8
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 1 1
B: 86 25
M: 2 8
T: 1 1
R: 16 16
S: 2.1839 8.6153
L: 696 208
D: 64 8
Counters
SF: 6621771 6621769
SFErr: 3695 784
RS: 225140244 56285036
RSCorr: 22446044 20386
RSUnCorr: 8079 0

HEC: 3325 556
OCD: 0 154
LCD: 0 10
Total Cells: 722143036 0
Data Cells: 2999432 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 299 0
SES: 79 0
UAS: 21 0
Total time = 1 days 7 hours 16 min 38 sec
SF = 6621771
CRC = 3695
LOS = 23
LOF = 0
ES = 299
Latest 1 day time = 7 hours 16 min 38 sec
SF = 1541040
CRC = 29
LOS = 7
LOF = 0
ES = 18
Latest 15 minutes time = 1 min 38 sec
SF = 5763
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52989
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
SF = 5080731
CRC = 3666
LOS = 16
LOF = 0
ES = 281
15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52931
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52930
CRC = 24
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 14
15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52931
CRC = 3
LOS = 2
LOF = 0
ES = 1

and I will try wired as soon as poss

[richone54]

wired test should show improvements,
out of interest where is your router plugged in (extention/master socket/test soclket?)

[moldirox]

It is plugged into master socket

[chrisypea]

Stats aren't too bad. Not a major ammount of errors. As richone says, a wired connection should yield an improvement. What sort of signal strength are you receiving on the wireless?

[moldirox]

I am getting fluctuating signal strengths, but this does not always reflect the download speed if you understand what I mean. My speed can be 11mbps with 3 out of 5 bars of connection on the signal strength, rated good, but the actual download speed on the pc can appear slow.

Sometimes, I do get full signal strength with excellent on the signal strength and other times, low with poor signal strenth. It can and does fluctuate continuously, and can drop from excellent to low within seconds.

I hope I have explained this ok?