Line at 19mbps but cant get more than 10mbps

fluiduk · 7 May 2006 at 14:56

Hi All

I am with UK Online 22mb Adsl2+

My router says the line is connected at 19000kbps but I cant get any more than 10mbps on any speed test.

Any ideas?

Thanks
Aaron

Stellios · 7 May 2006 at 15:16

Most servers wont run much faster than 10mbps.

Probably either the servers you use is limited, or your line cannot cope with going any faster.

gam3r · 7 May 2006 at 15:17

Have you tried rebooting the router? How long have you had the connection for? Did it just get activated? If it did then it may take a few days to pull up to speed as they monitor you line and run diagnostics on it for the first few days.

Also, if your router is wireless, can your access point recieve >11mbps?

benjo plz. · 7 May 2006 at 15:21

Try dowloading this - http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/100MB_nonzero.bin .

fluiduk · 13 May 2006 at 17:52

Tried downloading that file, dont get over 1.7mb/sec

I have tried copying a large file over wireless to the nas file thats plugged into the router and its copying at 3mb/sec so I dont think wireless is the bottle neck

Any other ideas

Phil99 · 13 May 2006 at 18:10

fluiduk said:
Tried downloading that file, dont get over 1.7mb/sec

I have tried copying a large file over wireless to the nas file thats plugged into the router and its copying at 3mb/sec so I dont think wireless is the bottle neck

Any other ideas

Assuming you mean 1.7MB/s that's 13.6mbit so I don't think you're too far off.

With overheads etc. the actual useful throughput will probably be around 16-17mbit.

fluiduk · 13 May 2006 at 18:14

Thats still pretty far off. 3mb a sec! lol

Phil99 · 13 May 2006 at 18:25

fluiduk said:
Thats still pretty far off. 3mb a sec! lol

The overheads I meant were on the line itself, nothing to do with the wireless, you probably wouldn't gain anything (other than slightly lower latency) using a cable instead of wireless.

3-4mbit off isn't that much on a line of that speed, you're probably hitting exchange + server contention at speeds like that!

Try in the early hours of the morning downloading from several different sources and you'll be able to more realistically get an idea of the top speed the line itself can acheive.

fluiduk · 13 May 2006 at 18:32

Cool, will do. Thanks for the advice