AOL ADSL MAX Speeds

eightiescrooner · 20 Dec 2007 at 21:12

Hi - quick question really....

Yesterday from about 6pm until about 1pm today my internet speed was around 3.5mbps

Now today my speed is around 2.5mbps and it won't go higher...

Is this something to do with AOL, or is it because I've been downloading constantly? or something else?

just curious really....cheers

ste_bla · 20 Dec 2007 at 21:17

eightiescrooner said:
Hi - quick question really....

Yesterday from about 6pm until about 1pm today my internet speed was around 3.5mbps

Now today my speed is around 2.5mbps and it won't go higher...

Is this something to do with AOL, or is it because I've been downloading constantly? or something else?

just curious really....cheers

Are you on about your sync speed or downloading speed? If sync then AOL have no control over it when your on a MAX connection (well unless its LLU'ed)

eightiescrooner · 20 Dec 2007 at 21:24

sync speed, yesterday was 3.4mb now today its 2.5mb

tolien · 20 Dec 2007 at 21:49

What ste_bla meant was that AOL have no control over your sync rate - if it's reducing, it's an issue with your line or your modem.
As ever, stats (SNR margin, attenuation, sync rate as reported by modem) would be useful.

ste_bla · 20 Dec 2007 at 21:57

Tolien said:
What ste_bla meant was that AOL have no control over your sync rate - if it's reducing, it's an issue with your line or your modem.
As ever, stats (SNR margin, attenuation, sync rate as reported by modem) would be useful.

yup opps

eightiescrooner · 20 Dec 2007 at 22:38

Tolien said:
What ste_bla meant was that AOL have no control over your sync rate - if it's reducing, it's an issue with your line or your modem.
As ever, stats (SNR margin, attenuation, sync rate as reported by modem) would be useful.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2784 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 47 db 15 db
Noise Margin 15 db 27 db

cheers

eightiescrooner · 20 Dec 2007 at 22:46

P.S - What do those figures mean?

Should I be expecting a high line attenuation / noise margin or low figures??

tolien · 20 Dec 2007 at 23:26

Low attenuation is better, but it's a property of your line.
On a rate adaptive service like Max, you want your SNR margin as low as you can get without the connection dropping out.

Tried restarting your modem - odds are it'll go back up to 3.5Mbps.

eightiescrooner · 21 Dec 2007 at 00:20

My noise margin is varying between 15 - 5db, when it's at 5db I reset the router but i'm still not getting back to 3.5, still around 2.8, not much difference I know but I just can't work out why 1 day I was getting 3.5mb stable and the next 2.8

any ideas?

tolien · 21 Dec 2007 at 00:48

If you're only getting 5dB at 2.8Mbps, that's all you're going to get.
If you reset it when it's at 15dB, odds are you'll connect at 3.5Mbps (and not see any difference in throughput because of your IP profile) and it'll disconnect at some point and reconnect at 2.8Mbps.