MaxDSL on long line results!!!

VeggieUK · 20 Apr 2006 at 08:53

Stats before uprgade
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/shebalator/netgrnew.jpg
Stats after upgrade(Day one)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v468/shebalator/maxupgrade.jpg
My speed is caped at 2Mb atm even though my router was turned on after uprgade but thats a lot mroe than i was expecting =D SNR is between 3-6 but it's not dropping :confused:

Also if anyone know's how to use netgear debug mode I'm all ears

D3fine · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:00

just out of curiosity what did the bt line checker say your line would support on max dsl before the upgrade? it says for me 2.5mb, but im hopeing for atleast 4mb, my attenuation is a little higher then yours on 1mb, 59.5, and my SNR is better though 29.5 allthough that is with a very old bt voyager 100 modem, might be better when i get a router. im being upgraded tomorrow

VeggieUK · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:04

BT Checker said 1.5Mb or greater :rolleyes:

D3fine · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:07

wow, thats pretty good then if you manage to get 4mb, i would be happy with 4mb, and very very happy with 5mb, my old house which is about 2mins walk away from me can get 8mb according to the bt checker :x

VeggieUK · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:08

from 4000Kbps 3.5Mbps
from 4544Kbps 4Mbps

I just need to somhow get an extra 150Kbs or so out of my line then i have 4Mb :mad:

Cuchulain · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:31

VeggieUK said:
from 4000Kbps 3.5Mbps
from 4544Kbps 4Mbps

I just need to somhow get an extra 150Kbs or so out of my line then i have 4Mb

I just need another 500k to get 9 meg!

Downloads burst at around 1100kb (kilobytes, not kilobits) sometimes up to 2100 then settle down to around the above speed. Best ... upgrade ... ever.

VeggieUK · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:33

All of a sudden my upgrade feels......puny :eek:

Cuchulain · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:34

VeggieUK said:
All of a sudden my upgrade feels......puny

It's not so good in the afternoon though, I think it's an exchange capacity issue, from around 3-4 onwards right through til the following morning it goes down to 5.5meg.

D3fine · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:50

whats more important to sync at higher speeds, attenuation or SNR?

VeggieUK · 20 Apr 2006 at 09:50

slipd · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:07

VeggieUK said:
BT Checker said 1.5Mb or greater

Wow, I can’t wait to get MAX now?!

Veggie, I have almost exactly the same stats/router as you, and the BT checker says I can have 'upto' 3 MB - which I still think is great having been limited to 1 MB for so long, so anything above that would be even greater

Keep us posted on what your stats/sync rate settles at after the 10 day period

SW.

UKDTweak · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:13

The BT online check says my exchange is good for 6.5mb, getting enabled today and so far my old router is saying :

Line attenuation 8.5 dB
Noise margin 16 dB

8128 Kbps Downstream
448 Kbps Upstream

However, online speed tests say im only getting 1.6mb Downstream, think its my old router though so ill wait for my new BT router to arrive before saying any more about that

Skilldibop · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:14

D3fine said:
whats more important to sync at higher speeds, attenuation or SNR?

Both really. High Attenuation weakens the signal on the line and would make you more vounerable to any noise that should occur.

It's like BHP and Torque. Neither are directly linked, but they can affect eachother indirectly and are BOTH needed to go fast.

slipd · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:17

Skilldibop said:
It's like BHP and Torque. Neither are directly linked, but they can affect eachother indirectly and are BOTH needed to go fast.

Good analogy

SW.

hybrid · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:18

Yeah im looking forward to getting a nice upgrade soon too.

Hopefully plus.net will hold out well and BT will manage to give me a wee boost from 1mbit.

VeggieUK · 20 Apr 2006 at 12:41

Had one disconnection so far and upon reboot my sync speed is 4320 kbps / 488Kbps.The slightly lower sync speed seems to have help, ds SNR is now stable at 6 for past 2 hours

I still have 320Kbps overhead to full back on if i want to keep 3.5Mb