Why is my connection capped at 2mb

[andycowuk]

Based on your attenuation you should be able to get the full 7.5Mb on Connect?

Maybe you should ring Sky to see if they have mistakenly placed a CAP on you?

Quote taken here

Do sky often make above mistake?

I get no more than 2meg on any speed test, but my stats are pretty good....

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 8128 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 15.5 db 11.0 db
Noise Margin 11.7 db 24.0 db

I was quoted 6.5meg when subscribed to package over phone.....

TIA

[NewsreadeR]

Something is not right your stats show that you should have the full 8mb

What speed did you have before moving to Sky?

[andycowuk]

I just moved into this house; I had telewest cable b4.... so far I miss it.

My modem has been connected for around 60 hours so far.

I have the £17 Connect package... i think thats up to 8 meg and 40 gb/month?

I set up port forwarding for torrents, and a well seeded torrent maxed out at only 100kb/s...

I tried port forwarding for port 80 to see if it made any difference to the web based speed test pages.... it made no difference, but I suppose the file thats downloaded prob wont come through the http port.

Any thoughts?

[andycowuk]

Just did a download of 6.1-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso from the ftp site and got 246kb/s so thats about 1900kbps....

Also my modem has been connected for 70 hous now....

[jaytc2003]

if your on the connect package then that is using bt's network so it is max adsl that you are on. This has a 10 day training period where bt's equipment monitors you line and adjusts sync speeds accordingly. As you have the max sync after this 10 day period I would expect you to have the fastest possible downloads from a bt max adsl product as your line stats are very good. Its a shame you cannot get sky max as you would probably sync at the full 16mb.

[andycowuk]

ok...so if the bt equipment needs to learn sync. speeds, but i have not rebooted modem sinse initial install, i should prob do that to resync?

Incidently, I can now upload at around 35kb/s on torrents now, and have had around 170kb/s by a few torrents at the same time. I got around 650kb/s + downloading a big ftp file so I dont think there is any connection problem, its more like badwidth restrictions on certain protocols.... Take it there is no way to get around the traffic shaping?