BT ADSL Download speed increased but Upload is the same?

tigerstyle · 21 Dec 2017 at 08:28

Typical small village here (my folks place) only half can get fibre, not our half, and we are a whopping 65 miles from the centre of London...

Anyway, in September of this year the download speed increased from 6Mb to 18Mb, which is nice, but the upload has stayed the same at 0.3Mb. I presume this is not a hardware limitation our end? And just the exchanges fault? They are using a standard Asus semi decent modem/router combo. ISP is Origin.

Looks like the upload target changed from 0.5Mb to 1Mb as our percentage has gone down

tigerstyle · 22 Dec 2017 at 02:46

Tealc said:
As a guess I'd say you moved from ADSL to ADSL2(+) but your upload scheme has remained at 448kbps.

ADSL2 should provide ~1Mbps speeds at a line length that provides 18Mbps.

Cool, but should provide? I know it should provide, so something is limiting it, anything that would be obvious hardware/setting/config wise?
I'll check the sync speed when I can.

Was a great speed bump out of the blue (10 years to late) but what can ya do?

tigerstyle · 22 Dec 2017 at 23:55

ok groovy, we are using one of the Pressac ADSL faceplates from eBay, so hopefully already covered in terms of a decent filter? Maybe it's a V2 unit, see that eBay now has V4 or 5 maybe for sale.

tigerstyle · 27 Dec 2017 at 09:37

Thanks gents!

'Sync Speed' is the data rate at 445kbps?

The best I could find on the Asus-N16 in use was the following:

https://imgur.com/wR3kx8I

https://imgur.com/OokOgRm

chance to have a fiddle at: https://imgur.com/vyUSiUL

tigerstyle · 1 Jan 2018 at 21:15

Are the above stats I've posted useful enough?

tigerstyle · 2 Jan 2018 at 00:06

Awesome, thank you for the info, I'll dig further

tigerstyle · 4 Jan 2018 at 08:13

Coincidentally the ISP is changing in 2 weeks, so it might do it itself! If not we'll be able to ring and sort it, think it is changing to PlusNet for what it is worth.