Soldato
For the past 3 years, i was living in NW london, less than a mile from my exchange and with apparently excellent telephone lines. I was on ukonline 22meg adsl, and woud usually sync at upwards of 19-20mbit, and achieve 1.5megabytes per second + download speeds. The service was uncapped, and i was happy.
But...the area we lived in was a bit 'dodgy' to say the least (harlesdon, anybody??? ) and the flat a bit pokey, so we decided to move.
Moved in a couple of weeks ago to a new place in Harrow, about 8 miles north. Phoned up UKo to get a new line and was told that i would have to be downgraded to an 8meg line, but that from 'my stats' it looked as though i would at least achieve the full 8meg. Not the end of the world, i thought...and at least the service was still uncapped.
Just got activated today, but i can't seem to sync at more than about 4.2 megabits roughly a quarter of my previous speed. My line stats are:
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4256 kbps 768 kbps
Line Attenuation 47.0 db 28.5 db
Noise Margin 6.7 db 17.0 db
not that great at all huh?
One thing i haven't tried yet is plugging the line into the BT master socket in the house - or indeed the 'test socket' which is located behind it. I can't do that at the moment because i can't find my telephone extension lead - but it that likely to even make much of a difference?
I know for many of you, 4meg internet may still seem pretty good, but it's a tough one to bear when i'm used to 4 or 5 times that speed Any way...just thought i'd get that off my chest
But...the area we lived in was a bit 'dodgy' to say the least (harlesdon, anybody??? ) and the flat a bit pokey, so we decided to move.
Moved in a couple of weeks ago to a new place in Harrow, about 8 miles north. Phoned up UKo to get a new line and was told that i would have to be downgraded to an 8meg line, but that from 'my stats' it looked as though i would at least achieve the full 8meg. Not the end of the world, i thought...and at least the service was still uncapped.
Just got activated today, but i can't seem to sync at more than about 4.2 megabits roughly a quarter of my previous speed. My line stats are:
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4256 kbps 768 kbps
Line Attenuation 47.0 db 28.5 db
Noise Margin 6.7 db 17.0 db
not that great at all huh?
One thing i haven't tried yet is plugging the line into the BT master socket in the house - or indeed the 'test socket' which is located behind it. I can't do that at the moment because i can't find my telephone extension lead - but it that likely to even make much of a difference?
I know for many of you, 4meg internet may still seem pretty good, but it's a tough one to bear when i'm used to 4 or 5 times that speed Any way...just thought i'd get that off my chest