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paul172

paul172

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Hi,

Hope someone can help, reading some of the other posts this MAXAdsl seems to be a bit of a minefield. Anyway.............

.......I've recently had BT's Up to 8MB broadband installed in my brand new house, now speed checkers said I could expect around 5.5MB connection. I live less than 1.5 miles away from the exchange(as the crow flies!). My router reports that it has connected at around 5MB, how ever, my download rates are no better than 512K. Whats going on, I'm only on day 2, will this be uncapped in a few days? Why is the router displaying 5MB connection?(~5000Kbps)

Cheers,
Paul
 
paul172 said:
Whats going on, I'm only on day 2, will this be uncapped in a few days?
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It should be increasing by day 3, and (if your sync rate - what your router's reporting) remains constant, it should be at maximum by day 10.
If it isn't, you'll need to kick your ISP to fix it.

Why is the router displaying 5MB connection?(~5000Kbps)
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Because that's what you're connected at?
 
Id give it a week or 2 before you start kicking up a fuss, just to be on the safe side.

I know you should be getting more than 512K speeds but im sure someone will correct me if im wrong, say for example if you are on adslmax offering a maximum download speed of 8Mb, and you are sync'd at 8Mb, you wont necessarily be downloading at 8meg, you may have Traffic shaping from the ISP's end, loss of signal quality due to errors on your line and many other attributes.

Even though you should still be getting more than 512k speeds, usually when your line is enabled or regraded, it can be done straight away, or it may take 7-10 days for them to fully enable the line upto good standards.
 
Yeah, when I was upgraded to MAXDSL I was told I could expect 4Mb and that took a good week before it was stable at that speed. If your watch your sync speed over the first 10 days you should see it "training". The exchange equipment tries to train your modem at the highest speed possible (8MB) but slowly drops until it can achive a stable rate, thet's why your ISP normally tells you to use your connection at least a few hours a day fro the 10 days so the line can be monitored.
 
tolien said:
No it doesn't.
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Why not just make the effort of typing a constructive response that corrects and educates him instead of a curt and rather pointless "no it doesn't". Too much like hard work, underboss? :p
 
Richdog said:
Why not just make the effort of typing a constructive response that corrects and educates him instead of a curt and rather pointless "no it doesn't".
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Because it's already been said umpteen times before (and in the FAQ, and in links that have been posted by myself and others...), and shock horror, I've got other things to be getting on with as well?
Of course, you could educate too, instead of another pointless dig.

But just to satisfy you:
The sync speed doesn't "train" over the first 10 days - the "training" process occurs every time you connect, and will always attempt to connect at the full sync rate then reduce it until the target SNR margin can be achieved.
If your connection's unstable, the DLM kit should increase your target SNR margin and/or enable interleaving with the aim of improving stability. But that isn't related to the 10 days - it could happen at any point from the connection being regraded to the end of time.
The 10 days is purely for data-gathering, nothing more.

Any ISP telling you to "use your connection at least a few hours a day" is talking rubbish.
 
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