Connection speed

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 09:23

Hi, well I'm a little confused.

I have just looked at my router main page, and this is what it says about the speed:

Modem Status Connected
DownStream Connection Speed 4032 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed 448 kbps

The thing that confuses me is those reading, will that be the speed I am currently receiving?

When I download something on a good server my speed usually maxed out at 355kb/s which would mean my downstream connection speed is infact 2840kbps, so how come am I not getting the propor speed?

My PC is in a bedroom and I am connected to the router using a 5 meter CAT5e cable (I think), then from the router I am using a 10 meter phone cable which connects directly into the ADSL Filter and then into the master phone socket.

Any ideas on whats wrong?

Thanks
Willz.

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 09:39

Results:

Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Assured Rate IP profile on your line is - 3000 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 2545 kbps

Now sure what you mean by the next part but here is what I hope is the right thing:

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 09:48

Well since I last got upgraded about a year ago, at night I had random disconnections every 30 mins for around 8 months, since then they ahve gone but I do get disconnections now and again, I wish there was a way to improve my speed, 355kb/sec is just abit slow tbh, at one point my speed was around 400kb/s but never happens anymore.

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 09:55

Mine shows 3000kbps though.

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 15:14

Does this show my line has more potential?

I just went to download AVG Free which is 22mb, and as soon as I started the download it was allready at 50% which suggests it downloaded 11mb almost instantly :s then it was just at the max 355kb/s for the rest of the download, this has happened a few other times too.

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 15:35

tolien said:
It started downloading before it started timing - you really want a big file (like 100MB) to get a decent average.

If your connection remains stable where it is, you should wind up on the 3.5Mbps. You could make 4Mbps, but you'd almost certainly wind up with instability.

Well from the moment I clicked download and saved it, it got to 50%, so 3 seconds at the max.

I was talking to AOL live help and they said they were gonna be putting something in most areas eventually, cant remember exatly, something to do with loop, but it apparently boosts speeds and could managed to get me 6mb broadband even though I am 2+ miles from the phone exchange.

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 15:42

tolien said:
They're talking rubbish.
They mean Local Loop Unbundling, but it isn't going to give you an extra 2Mbps.

I'll just ask them on live help, that was not the name for it, maybe its the same thing though, I was even on the phone to Pipex who rang up like 4 times and they said it will boost my connection by 3mb

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 16:18

Surely as techonology improves I will one day see fast 8mb broadband 2 miles from an exchange?

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 16:28

I would have thought as technology improves then internet speed can be aswell, AOL says I am up for a speed upgrade in november, but they been saying this since I was on 1mb, and they still think I am on 1mb broadband

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 16:41

Trifid said:
The next speed upgrade will be ADSL2+ which will come on the BT network in 2008 till 2011 depending on when your exchange gets upgraded. (This is assuming that the upgrade comes with BT 21CN). This will give many users a speed upgrade. Your line length may still be too long to see much of an improvement.

FTTK/FTTH will be the next speed upgrade. BT are dragging their feet with it though.

FTTK/FTTH? Whats that? Surely with ADSL2 I could get an extra mb?

I wish I could get 8mb one day, I cant imagine still been on 3mb when everyone else is on 24mb, someone in my village is on 5mb through a business line or something apparently thats what he said.

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 16:56

tolien said:
IIRC, ADSL2+ is 21 Century Access. The two are related but separate.

Fibre to the Kerb/Fibre to the Home (the latter is extremely unlikely to happen in the next 50 years), and you're unlikely to gain the 3Mbps that AOL claim.

Fibre to the kerb? whats that mean? I would have expected 3mb from ADSL 2 though, I never knew the internet was so harsh, looks like I'll have to move to a smelly stinking polluted city

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 17:12

Teal said:
Between 50-55dB is where ADSL2+ and ADSL converge in terms of speed so with your line at 53dB the odds are you'd see no improvement at all with ADSL2+ and you are pretty close to the point where a provider like BE for example wouldn't offer you an ADSL2+ service at all.

Surely its possible to decrease the line noise?

willhub · 12 Jul 2007 at 17:43

Whats the difference between the test socket behind the back plate and the normal socket? As if the Test Socket can help me determin anything I will give it a try.