broadband max speed question

floz · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:38

hey guys n gals,

thinking of upgrading to 20mbps with o2's new offer. Currently i'm on 8mbps and i get about 6.5mbps in my room via wireless. My question is, will it actually be any quicker, and how do i check the maximum speed i can get?

Thanks!

V_R · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:39

Post your stats. (Attenuation, SNR etc.)

This will give you a rough idea

http://www2.farina1.com/ADSL/default.aspx

floz · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:41

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream

Connection Speed 8187 kbps 1248 kbps

Line Attenuation 42.0 db 24.3 db

Noise Margin 8.4 db 6.2 db

would altering the snr ratio make any improvements? The site says i might get 9500, though it's sort of confusing me.

floz · 10 Feb 2010 at 18:51

am i right in assuming that line attenuation is the most important thing, and that this is down to the distance from the exchange and the quality of the line?

edit: by rough, how rough do you mean, could it be 1mbps either way or more?

V_R · 10 Feb 2010 at 19:00

Good stats.

http://www.beforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=6490

Also havea read around taht site. Should answer most of your questions.

floz · 10 Feb 2010 at 19:45

thanks V R, so it's possible i can get the full 20mbps?

Ryan111 · 10 Feb 2010 at 20:30

No, you will probs not receive much of a boost. Maybe sync at 9-10meg and get 8-9meg throughput.

Rroff · 10 Feb 2010 at 23:19

You pretty much must be connected via ADSL2+ already to get 8Mbit with that attenuation - with 42db attenuation your maxing out at around 9Mbit at the very max.

floz · 11 Feb 2010 at 00:16

ah fair enough, are lines updated much in terms of quality? or is it the wiring in my own house?

also, any ideas if the wireless box 3 is any good?