Connection stats

[Dimi]

Downstream

Downstream Frequency
331000000 Hz

Modulation
256QAM

Bit Rate
10240000 bits/sec

Power Level
-8.3 dBmV

Signal to Noise Ratio
39.5 dB

Upstream

Upstream Frequency
23000000 Hz

Modulation
16QAM

Symbol Rate
512000 bits/sec

Power Level
38.0 dBmV

This is on VM's 10meg service, what could i be getting with stats like above?

 

[Stickman]

You're on a 10 meg line... so you could get anything up to about 10 megabits per second (which is just over 1 megabyte per second) downstream, if that's what you mean?

 

[Dimi]

Oh, i meant what if i was on the 20meg or the 50meg service.
With my current signal stats would i be looking @ getting the full 20 or 50meg?

 

[Stickman]

Well it's impossible to say for definite but there's a fair deal of interesting information here.

Whether you'd get the full 20 or 50 meg depends on a ton of things but apparently they do try a little harder to help the 50 meg customers get more (in theory the 50mb customers get better technicians etc...). Either way you'll probably get close to the advertised speed ... friend of mine was on 20meg service and not getting 20meg all the time: complained and they said they'll only charge him for 10meg even tho he often gets more now.

Guess it depends if you need that much bandwidth? We run a house of 4 users on 20 meg and it works fine, but i'm the only "heavy" user who might do something like P2P... the rest don't know how and just surf the web.

 

[Duke]

Generally you should get what you pay for with VM, the stats don't mean so much as they should be good anyway.