Finding the maximum internet connectio you can receive?

AMDRulz · 9 Feb 2006 at 21:00

as in the title, i am on AOL silver (512kbs) and want to get the 8 Meg service, How do i find the maximum my line will allow?

regards

tolien · 9 Feb 2006 at 21:12

You go hunting for stats (attenuation, SNR), and you take a wild guess.

Skilldibop · 10 Feb 2006 at 10:52

Get some line stats and you can find out if you fall into the suitability level for 8meg. However no one ever gets 8meg, best you can expect is about 6meg down.

OllyM · 10 Feb 2006 at 11:47

Skilldibop said:
However no one ever gets 8meg, best you can expect is about 6meg down.

Erm..

If you sync at 8064, you'll get a throughput of ~7.2mbit/second. 'no one ever gets 8meg' is rubbish - people living close enough to the exchange will and do get it.

Dave2150 · 10 Feb 2006 at 12:15

OllyM said:
Erm..

If you sync at 8064, you'll get a throughput of ~7.2mbit/second. 'no one ever gets 8meg' is rubbish - people living close enough to the exchange will and do get it.

He probably means contention - although some of my m8's on bulldog are connected @ 8mbit, they only get 6mbit from a 100mbit server - simply because they are paying for a contended service.

Skilldibop · 10 Feb 2006 at 14:11

He probably means contention - although some of my m8's on bulldog are connected @ 8mbit, they only get 6mbit from a 100mbit server - simply because they are paying for a contended service.

There is that but Olly said it himself.

If you sync at 8064, you'll get a throughput of ~7.2mbit/second.

Since when does 7.2 = 8???

you never actually get 8mbit. If you live ontop of the exchange you still only get up to 95% at best.