Upgrade but not as fast as expected

NotAGolf

NotAGolf

NotAGolf

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Hi all.

I have been with Pipex for years now (although I've got phonecalls from Talk Talk and its reporting as Tiscali on some websites, so dunno what's going on with them!). About a week ago my internet looks to have been upgraded.

I used to be on a 2MB down, 0.25 up deal. I've heard nothing from them, no letters, emails, phone calls, but my line looks to have been upgraded to this:
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Which I'm obviously chuffed with. I know I really shouldn't complain but it doesn't feel as fast as I imagined. Downloading from steam for example I've seen it go at 2.1MB/s which is awesome, but elsewhere it's not as fast.

Simple browsing doesn't really seem to be much different, for example the random image and awesome gif threads on here still take a few seconds to display all the images. And my torrent downloads top out at ~900k and averages at around 400k, even though I've used the speed guide setup tool in utorrent. I don't think this is being throttled as I do get throttled at peak times and this drops right down to sub 50K.

Is this normal or is there anything else I can try to speed it up? I've got a Netgear DG834GT if there's anything I can tweak on here?

Thanks.
 
I would put DGTeam firmware on it and tweak your SNR Margin, 10db is quite high. You could lower it to 6db and get a few mb out of the connection.
Looks like BT might have finally upgrade your exchange to ADSL2+
 
Thanks guys.

Swifty; I have already rebooted the router, didn't seem to make much difference.

And both of you mentioned updating the firmware. I bought the router not long ago off the bay and I believe it came 'unlocked' i.e. without Sky's firmware on. However I'm not sure if I have the DGTeam on there. Current version on the router status page is: V1.03.23 and the ADSL Firmware Version is: A2pB022c.d20e

How do I find if this is the most up-to-date and correct version? And if I am lucky and this is the correct version, could someone point me in the direction of a guide to tweak this SNR ratio. I'd hope my signal is fairly strong as I'm only ~200m from the exchange!

Thanks again.
 
I guess you've been moved onto ADSL2+/21CN - seems most people are being moved that way unless they have very bad connections.

Even on 100MBit connection web-browsing isn't that speedy usually - probably down to the hosting servers being semi busy. I would guess your ISP is throttling P2P traffic some or most of the day - its not uncommon these days with the mainstream packages for P2P to be throttle to <1000kbit/s during 6pm til midnight and 1-2MBit for 1-2 hours either side of that. If your saying 900KByte/s - then thats fairly decent I've rarely seen more than 500KByte/s even on a well seeded torrent unless someones dropped a dedibox or 2 in there.
 
Use the link that seekdestroy has supplied, the instructions on how to update the firmware are on that website.

Also, are you connected to the master socket, or even tried the test socket?

With that attenuation and a SN margin of 6 or probably 3dB, you should easily hit the full 24Mbps.
 
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