Are these line stats good or bad?

Andy100 · 25 Apr 2006 at 00:56

Operation Data Upstream Downstream
Noise Margin 9 dB 10 dB
Attenuation 31 dB 23 dB

I've recently got 24Mb adsl2+ over here in Oz but I never seem to be able to download faster than about 8Mb

I'd imagine it's one of three things:

1. My line stats prohibit faster transmission.

2. My wireless router lies when it says it can transmit speeds up to 54Mbps.

3. The connection between me and giganews has a bottleneck. (I doubt this as I've tried a few download speed tests and they're all coming back at about 8meg)

Any ideas people?

tolien · 25 Apr 2006 at 01:19

Andy100 said:
2. My wireless router lies when it says it can transmit speeds up to 54Mbps.

It isn't lying, you are misinterpreting what it's reporting though. It can transmit speeds up to 54Mbps (probably about 20Mbps of useful throughput though), it's just only between your machine and the router, not the internet.

Your SNR margin isn't great, and your connection's about as fast as it's going to get. Current sync rate's going to be a lot more useful than the headline 24Mbps though.

Andy100 · 25 Apr 2006 at 01:22

My current sync rate says 17Mps

That's what's confusing me. Surely if my sync rate is that then my dl speeds should be around that?

It isn't lying, you are misinterpreting what it's reporting though. It can transmit speeds up to 54Mbps (probably about 20Mbps of useful throughput though), it's just only between your machine and the router, not the internet.

I realise this I was just wondering if wireless lan speeds were a lot lower than they qoute and thus causing a bottleneck. So with excellent signal strength I should be getting around 20Mbs, damn so it's not that causing it.

Ah well... 8Mbs is a lot better than the 256k I was on before

Energize · 25 Apr 2006 at 01:25

Andy100 said:
My current sync rate says 17Mps

That's what's confusing me. Surely if my sync rate is that then my dl speeds should be around that?

Its unlikely that the servers you are downloading off can upload @ 17Mbps to all the people that are using it.

Stellios · 25 Apr 2006 at 01:34

Energize said:
Its unlikely that the servers you are downloading off can upload @ 17Mbps to all the people that are using it.

Yeah, you will eb unlikely to see a download sped of that speed off one single source. My mate on 10mb and usually gots about 7-8mb off a normal server, the only way he gets full speed is though usenet. Thats what he last told me anyways.