*Be dl speed dropping for you ?

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Anyone had a large decrease in general dl speed over the past few months with *Be ?

In my case its been getting slower and slower week on week despite recent upgrade work at my exchange.
 
Sometimes I randomly sync at lower speeds like 11-12mbit instead of the usual 16-17.5...but most of the time it's fine....
 
My girlfriend just had a connection from o2 (afaik same as Be) to keep costs down cause she's got an o2 mobile contract, excellent sync 21mb down and 1.2 up but throughput is nowhere near - more like 7mb late at night at best.
 
Mine has been up and down over the last week or two, the thing that I find odd with it is that in my case there is no real pattern or correlation between low throughput and the time of day / week it just seems to be random.

The issue I get seems to be intermittent congestion at various points of Be's peering, for instance I normally use the Zen internet speed test site ( http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/ ) as that typically can max out my line at 2-2.2MB/sec. Recently though I have found that test site sometimes just crawls to a half (<1MBps speed) but if I then go to say apple.com and download iTunes it comes down at full speed again.
 
Nope. I sync at 24.5MB and download at 2.5Mb/s morning, noon and night.

On the rare occasion (once every couple months), it will sync at 13MB but a quick reboot of the router fixes that.
 
Well, I'm not going to be using speedtest.net for accurate readings again:
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I'm syncing fairly well (18809/1330) but throughput seems a bit lower today.
 
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Just signed up with Be last week on the 24mb unlimited package, but only syncing at roughly 12000 for downloading. Is there anyway i can improve this?
 
daztrouk said:
Just signed up with Be last week on the 24mb unlimited package, but only syncing at roughly 12000 for downloading. Is there anyway i can improve this?
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You can go into your online control panel and select gaming mode or something like that.

Secondly, depending on which router you are using, you can make SNR tweaks and get optimised firmwares.
 
gads said:
You can go into your online control panel and select gaming mode or something like that.

Secondly, depending on which router you are using, you can make SNR tweaks and get optimised firmwares.
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If you post your line stats people will be able to be more specific about what you might be able to get out of it.

If you have extension wiring in your house one of those BT iplate things might be worth a punt too, at £10 it is probably worth a shot.

In your Be user area you have some options too, the ones you are interested in are:

Optimise for speed = lower target SNR to 3dB (higher sync rate / less stable)

Gaming mode = fastpath on (i.e. no interleaving - lower pings / less stable possibly).

Also you could use something like DMT tool to tweak the SNR if your router supports this, I generally always found my Netgear DG834N syncs a good 2mbit higher than the Speedtouch too, so you could think about picking up an old DG834GT from the bay for a tenner and giving that a go.
 
wij said:
If you post your line stats people will be able to be more specific about what you might be able to get out of it.

If you have extension wiring in your house one of those BT iplate things might be worth a punt too, at £10 it is probably worth a shot.

In your Be user area you have some options too, the ones you are interested in are:

Optimise for speed = lower target SNR to 3dB (higher sync rate / less stable)

Gaming mode = fastpath on (i.e. no interleaving - lower pings / less stable possibly).

Also you could use something like DMT tool to tweak the SNR if your router supports this, I generally always found my Netgear DG834N syncs a good 2mbit higher than the Speedtouch too, so you could think about picking up an old DG834GT from the bay for a tenner and giving that a go.
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cheers for your help, after making those changes in the members secction, it now syncs a couple meg higher :)

My line stats are as follows:

Link Information

Uptime: 0 days, 0:02:29
DSL Type: G.992.5 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1,377 / 14,736
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]: 0.00 / 0.00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 19.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 18.5 / 34.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 3.5 / 3.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / BDCM
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 11 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 1 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 1 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 0
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 6
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 2

These look ok?
 
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wij said:
Optimise for speed = lower target SNR to 3dB (higher sync rate / less stable)

Gaming mode = fastpath on (i.e. no interleaving - lower pings / less stable possibly).
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Lol..Is that quoted from me somewhat? I'm just sure I wrote that exact same wording in a post a while back.

Random coincidence perhaps :)
 
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