8meg Max Adsl Question

Roughneck · 12 Apr 2006 at 21:26

been syn at DSL Speed 448 Kbps Upstream, 8128 Kbps Downstream

since I got up this morning but havent gone over 247kb/s all day.

will this improve over the next few days?

bingham67 · 12 Apr 2006 at 21:30

Yes give it another 3 days and you might see a change should be no more then 10 days overall though.

tolien · 12 Apr 2006 at 21:41

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=6779160&postcount=139

It'll change (eventually).

malccy · 12 Apr 2006 at 22:22

Thanks Tolien - am switching over to Nildram and maxdsl in a couple days; when would be a sensible time to wait before complaining about lack of speed increase and is it an easy thing for them to sort quickly?

Roughneck · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:15

Im still only getting 2 mb max even after 3 days. Any ideas anyone

loltim · 15 Apr 2006 at 15:21

Mines the same, give it time.

tolien · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:20

malccy said:
when would be a sensible time to wait before complaining about lack of speed increase and is it an easy thing for them to sort quickly?

10 days. Anything before that and I'd imagine it'll get ignored anyway.

Luke284 · 15 Apr 2006 at 18:30

i emailed my isp (EvolutionDSL) about this. (I knew what the answer was going to be, i just wanted to see what their customer support was like - 1hr to reply) anyway, they said

Evolution Support said:
Dear Customer,
We are seeing that BT are keeping new ADSL Max lines on a 2mb cap until 3 days
after connection, this is to allow the line rate to stabilise. Unfortunately
we cannot override this cap. You should allow three days to see what the new
line rate is, then if you do not see any increase please raise a ticket again.

not entirely accurate, but suggests they will do something after 3 days of being connected.

loltim · 16 Apr 2006 at 00:14

Mines been hitting 500KB/s tonight, its going up slowly

Roughneck · 16 Apr 2006 at 11:33

just downloaded a file @ 900kb/sec

whats that in megs??

Gavstar · 16 Apr 2006 at 11:38

Roughneck said:
just downloaded a file @ 900kb/sec

whats that in megs??

If memory serves, 1Mbit = 125 kB/sec

makes that about 7.2 - not bad!

loltim · 16 Apr 2006 at 12:20

Oh, I thought 1Mbps = 120KB/s so 120 x 8 should be 960KB/s?

900KB/s is fast though :cool:

Gavstar · 16 Apr 2006 at 12:34

Tim said:
Oh, I thought 1Mbps = 120KB/s so 120 x 8 should be 960KB/s?

900KB/s is fast though

Think you could be right, strictly speaking 1024kb/s = 125kB/s.

Working it out though 1 Mbps = 122kB/s

What do ISPs term a Mbit though? 1Mbit proper or 1024kbps?

Luke284 · 16 Apr 2006 at 12:41

Roughneck said:
just downloaded a file @ 900kb/sec

whats that in megs??

FAST

not sure if my 2mb cap has been lifted yet though. no one at home.

CurlyWhirly · 16 Apr 2006 at 15:30

Tim said:
Oh, I thought 1Mbps = 120KB/s so 120 x 8 should be 960KB/s?

900KB/s is fast though

I thought that 7.15 Mb is the best speed that you can hope for as 8128 Kb is the maximum bandwidth available using standard ADSL and that includes 'overheads' :confused:

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2622

xirokx · 16 Apr 2006 at 15:47

are you guys capped?

if not who u using? how much u paying?

loltim · 16 Apr 2006 at 18:19

CurlyWhirly said:
I thought that 7.15 Mb is the best speed that you can hope for as 8128 Kb is the maximum bandwidth available using standard ADSL and that includes 'overheads'

http://www.adslguide.org.uk/newsarchive.asp?item=2622

You're probably right, I was going from 1Mb = 120KB/s, 2Mb = 240KB/s and 8Mb is 4 times faster than 2Mb. 240 x 4 = 960.

Like I said, you're right, I'm wrong

Roughneck · 16 Apr 2006 at 21:18

xirokx said:
are you guys capped?

if not who u using? how much u paying?

yeah capped @ 40 gigs allthough Ive heard BT dont jump on you till youve gone over 100 gigs.

as for price its 29.99

WOMBATWILSON · 16 Apr 2006 at 21:34

Roughneck said:
yeah capped @ 40 gigs allthough Ive heard BT dont jump on you till youve gone over 100 gigs.

as for price its 29.99

lol yes they do. i did 61gb last month told if i go over again i have to pay
£1 per gig

xirokx · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:34

im thinking of moving to uk online...

but not too sure or confident as last sept i enquired into their services and their staff were not that helpful....

For example I had one guy telling me very abruptly I could get the service in my area after 10 mins of convincing him I had spoken to a supervisor who confirmed I could he then went to find out more for me....

But I really would like faster speeds at the mo I am paying £25.99 a month for 1mb uncapped...

What do you guys think?