Line speed question

Sukh

Sukh

Sukh

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Estimated line speed:
2.5 - Checked on 2010-07-13 12:13:41
Current line speed:
7150


At the moment my router is connected at 160kbs down stream and the above suggests it should be much faster? I've only had the connection switched over yesterday so is it just my ip profile taking time to update?
If so can I make it go faster?
 
To save a lot of faff,
  • What exchange are you connected to?
  • Who is your ISP and what package are you on?
  • Paste detailed line stats from the modem/router interface.
  • Paste the results from BT's Broadband Performance Tester.
I am not sure if it can be recommended during the training period, but I would have connected my modem/router to the test socket for this phase.
 
Exchange: LWWRA

ISP: PlusNet Extra

Line Stats:
ADSL Link Downstream / Upstream
Connection Speed 160 kbps / 128 kbps
Line Attenuation 50.0 db / 31.5 db
Noise Margin 19.5 db / 6 db

I will run the BT thing later when everyone has gone to bed

Also is 7150 = 7.1meg?
 
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Attenuation isn't bad and you should be syncing at near 8mb really. That noise margin is pretty bad though, have you tried simply resetting the router?
 
Thanks, we used to sync at 8mb with old isp (o2) but got booted for fup of 10gig, we have just switched over yesterday and have been told for the first ten days it will vary until they find best trade off between reliability and speed.

The margin is probably due to it being on an extension of an extension in the house and not in the master socket which never helps. But I can't move it now as they said the more you disconnect it, the longer it will take to band the ip profile and hence speed.

Does 7150 = 7.1mb the router doesn't make it clear from the stats in my first post.
 
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Sukh said:
Thanks, we used to sync at 8mb with old isp (o2) but got booted for fup of 10gig, we have just switched over yesterday and have been told for the first ten days it will vary until they find best trade off between reliability and speed.

The margin is probably due to it being on an extension of an extension in the house and not in the master socket which never helps. But I can't move it now as they said the more you disconnect it, the longer it will take to band the ip profile and hence speed
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Emphatic fail.

You might find that with your current wiring setup that things don't even improve from 160 kbps. If the target SNR margin gets reduced down towards a standard 6 dB profile it might only gain a meg. Plug it into the test socket and leave it for the training period.

Plugging modems into wiring extensions makes me upset :(
 
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It used to get 8mb in the exact same spot so it should be fine. The house is unfortunately wired with cat5 to that spot so moving it wouldn't make much sense.
 
Erm, the attenuation's pretty bad. 50dB would point to a loop length of ~5km and would have put you outside the limit for fixed rate 2Mbps so the 2.5Mbps estimate probably isn't that far off all told.

That said, your downstream SNR margin is really high. Does it connect at that level and at that sync rate if you reconnect?
 
Nope, I dunno whats up as we used to get a solid 8mb and live less than one mile from the exchange.

We got a second line put in which may be causing issues but everything has a filter, after 72 hours up time I am going to move it to the master socket and see if it makes a difference.
 
Yeh it feels like dial up :(
But I have been told that you need 72 hours minimum at a certain connection to move to that banding and the line is currently 7150, so my hope is that it moves towards soon, if not after 72 hour wait I will move the modem/router.

Will let you know how it goes/complain like a baby about why it didn't work tomorrow at ten.
 
If you're still getting
Connection Speed 160 kbps / 128 kbps
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Then the 7150 is nonsense. The connection's currently at 160kbps (so about a seventh of that) and that's unlikely to change. As long as you're not reconnecting dozens of times an hour it won't hurt at all to disconnect.
 
Cheers, I will definitely reconnect at the master socket tomorrow at ten. I read on the plusnet forum that they require a stable line for 72 hours before they can reband, and seeing as the wait will be sleep time I will just wait it out just in case.
I'm fairly certain you are right, but for the sake of waiting till tomorrow morning.
 
tolien said:
If you're still getting


Then the 7150 is nonsense. The connection's currently at 160kbps (so about a seventh of that) and that's unlikely to change. As long as you're not reconnecting dozens of times an hour it won't hurt at all to disconnect.
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160 is about one 45th 7150

Have you tried it plugged into the test socket?
 
You guys were right, I plugged it in the master socket:

ADSL Link Downstream / Upstream
Connection Speed 7616 kbps / 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 19.5 db / 8.5 db
Noise Margin 12.0 db / 23 db

It still feels really really slow, I have the netgear DG834G V5, have I missed something in config with ping or something? I just changed settings in Basic and ADSL.
 
It'll take time for your IP profile to increase. That's why doing it earlier would have been better than later.
There's no reason you couldn't get to the full 8Mbps.
 
Cheers, I have a question regarding my router, I have seen a guide here:

http://www.adsl2forum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=8214

I didn't do the autosetup bit, have I cocked it up?
Also should I use these custom firmwares? UBERGT or DGTeam?

I am a complete nub with this and think the autosetup may have been important? (Step 2) I just put my password and settings in as the isp told me they were?
 
No, you don't need to use autosetup. It doesn't do anything you didn't do by hand (as in, take a username and password).
 
Thanks for the help :)

Is there anyway I can make it change my ip profile faster? Like use youtube or tax the bandwidth more?
 
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