How quick is your internet?

[vRS Carl]

I'm with BT though so im used to crap speeds

Bit of a sh!tter that i can only get BT here

[Janner_Sy]

im on the phone to sky broadband now.  they are raising a technical investigation about my connection.

i appreciate the small print said upto 20mb, but im on the top package and there seems to be 17mb of this broadband missing somewhere. 

[scotta]

Small point chaps but given the forum has had a few issues recently hammering the bandwidth for this may not be the best of ideas!!

[bacillus]

:)

I wouldn't trust those ^^^ figures as I'm sure you have a faster connection than me yet my result is

[Hedge]

If you are using Speedtest.net then you really should disable your anti-virus as that can affect the results. 

[Janner_Sy]

check out my beast, makes yours look slow    think i need to find a new provider because sky cant get any better around my area than 3.7 according to their technical dept

[vRS Carl]

This is my usual average



Best i have got is 6.3 MB/Sec. Not good when BT keep telling me i should get a min of 8meg and theoretically upto 20meg as im on an ADSL2+ enabled line 

Bit of throttling going on me thinks

[bacillus]

This is my usual average



Best i have got is 6.3 MB/Sec. Not good when BT keep telling me i should get a min of 8meg and theoretically upto 20meg as im on an ADSL2+ enabled line 

Bit of throttling going on me thinks

What connection stats (including attenuation) do you see in your router?

[vRS Carl]

In english please 

[vRS Carl]

Is this what your after?



Just did that now after resetting my router to see if it did anything for the speed.

It did FECK all

EDIT - Just did another test and got this Mahoooooosive increase 

[bacillus]

You are still in adsl not adsl 2+ mode as your modulation is G 992.1.

Your attenuation is very good suggesting you are close to the exchange but your noise margin (both Up and down) is very high. The usual value is 6db down suggesting you either have an unstable line that resynchs often or BT is capping your speed.

[vRS Carl]

So how do i change the ADSL Mode to get ADSL2+

I reckon that BT are capping the speed aswell the feckers 

[bacillus]

Assuming the router supports adsl 2+ then you should be able to change it somewhere in the router's configuration settings.

[no golf clubs at all]

I'm with virgin media (only cos I don't have a bt line into my house)...... running speedtest, i'm in Glasgow it says, when I select the Aberdeen server I get 6.1mbs.....if I change the server to derry for the test I get 9.5mbs....

I think I pay for 10mbs.

Pity in normal use I can come off of that Derry server  (or can I?)

[Richn83]

Came down in about 1-2 seconds, I am on my work connection which since we are an NSP is fairly fat:



Its our own service, for people to run servers off of, linked to our office over a Dark fibre lit at 1GE, so the limitation here is how quickly the speed test servers can work and the TCP/IP ack limitation if over longer distances.