For a while I've been noticing that my router displays the ADSL connection speed differently to what I actually get.
My ISP is Pipex and the router displayed the connection speed as 256kbps US/1024kbps DS which is what I signed up for. However, when Tiscali took them over quite a while ago things changed and the connection speed was reading differently displite no difference in actual speed. Whenever the router is restarted it'll read a different ADSL downstream connection speed everytime ranging from 1.5mbps to 3.5mbps. The upload increased to 448kbps and I do actually get that. I did a speedtest to show this:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/436837699.png
This starting happening around Feb last year and I initially thought that they may be testing my line for ADSL max or whatever it is. A year later and nothing has changed although it now only connects around 1.5mbps to 2.5mbps instead.
While this shouldn't really matter as I'm getting what I should, why is is connecting at a higher speed if I'm not even going to get that? It's also decreased my SNR to ~11db and increased the Line Attenuation to ~51. Why can't they just leave it at a fixed speed? I've logged onto my account on the Pipex website but it mentions nothing on any speed changes.
My ISP is Pipex and the router displayed the connection speed as 256kbps US/1024kbps DS which is what I signed up for. However, when Tiscali took them over quite a while ago things changed and the connection speed was reading differently displite no difference in actual speed. Whenever the router is restarted it'll read a different ADSL downstream connection speed everytime ranging from 1.5mbps to 3.5mbps. The upload increased to 448kbps and I do actually get that. I did a speedtest to show this:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/436837699.png
This starting happening around Feb last year and I initially thought that they may be testing my line for ADSL max or whatever it is. A year later and nothing has changed although it now only connects around 1.5mbps to 2.5mbps instead.
While this shouldn't really matter as I'm getting what I should, why is is connecting at a higher speed if I'm not even going to get that? It's also decreased my SNR to ~11db and increased the Line Attenuation to ~51. Why can't they just leave it at a fixed speed? I've logged onto my account on the Pipex website but it mentions nothing on any speed changes.