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Title: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: TheBoy on 17 February 2010, 17:50:43
I have an ADSL line in the office at work.  A normal, bog standard 'up to 8Mb' ADSL1 service.

(http://theboy.omegaowners.com/oofpics/odds/dsl_stat.JPG)
Not many lines better than that :o
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: Kevin Wood on 17 February 2010, 18:02:44
Mine's the same. I do actually get "up to 8mb/s" if I SSH into it and download some stuff while everyone's at work. Otherwise it's about 2Mb/s.  ;D

Kevin
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: TheBoy on 17 February 2010, 18:25:41
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Mine's the same. I do actually get "up to 8mb/s" if I SSH into it and download some stuff while everyone's at work. Otherwise it's about 2Mb/s.  ;D

Kevin
My Zen line, I get the full download/upload speeds expected from the sync speed, 24x7 - as you well know, as you have access to my router stats ::)
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 17 February 2010, 18:32:48
Just grabbed a screen shot of mine.

Dunno what the rest of the numbers mean, but are they good or bad?


(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk106/skruntie/0%20-%20Bits%20-%20001/ADSL-001.jpg)
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: jereboam on 17 February 2010, 18:35:12
I thought that the maximum you could actually get was only about 7.2mb/s despite the fact it's advertised as up to 8mb/s.  I also thought I'd read that here on OOF. :)

Not, of course, that it matters much to me - I live about 5km from the exchange, so on a really good day I may get about 5.2mb/s.  Right now, it's 4288mb/s. :(
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: TheBoy on 17 February 2010, 18:49:19
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I thought that the maximum you could actually get was only about 7.2mb/s despite the fact it's advertised as up to 8mb/s.  I also thought I'd read that here on OOF. :)

Not, of course, that it matters much to me - I live about 5km from the exchange, so on a really good day I may get about 5.2mb/s.  Right now, it's 4288mb/s. :(
Correct.

Which is why I believe this router (OOFers will know, a particular favourite of mine (not!)) is talking BS.  Put the original router back in (we were testing if it was upgraded to ADSL2), and sync'd at 7.2
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: jereboam on 17 February 2010, 19:27:39
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I thought that the maximum you could actually get was only about 7.2mb/s despite the fact it's advertised as up to 8mb/s.  I also thought I'd read that here on OOF. :)

Not, of course, that it matters much to me - I live about 5km from the exchange, so on a really good day I may get about 5.2mb/s.  Right now, it's 4288mb/s. :(
Correct.

Which is why I believe this router (OOFers will know, a particular favourite of mine (not!)) is talking BS.  Put the original router back in (we were testing if it was upgraded to ADSL2), and sync'd at 7.2

What's wrong with the router?  It's clearly a Netgear model, because the picture shows the same modem stats format as I get from my DG834G.  Mine works fine and has done since I got it about 3 years ago.
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: alunonhisown on 17 February 2010, 19:30:20
How do I est my speed?
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: alunonhisown on 17 February 2010, 19:33:42
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How do I test my speed?
Found it
D\L 4.31mb\s
U\L 0.38
I would say that is PATHETIC, then it would be is BT and is always strangled this time of noght.
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: Kevin Wood on 17 February 2010, 20:06:03
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Mine's the same. I do actually get "up to 8mb/s" if I SSH into it and download some stuff while everyone's at work. Otherwise it's about 2Mb/s.  ;D

Kevin
My Zen line, I get the full download/upload speeds expected from the sync speed, 24x7 - as you well know, as you have access to my router stats ::)

News to me ;D

Kevin
Title: Re: ADSL - bloomin' heck
Post by: Mr Skrunts on 17 February 2010, 20:25:54
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Mine's the same. I do actually get "up to 8mb/s" if I SSH into it and download some stuff while everyone's at work. Otherwise it's about 2Mb/s.  ;D

Kevin
My Zen line, I get the full download/upload speeds expected from the sync speed, 24x7 - as you well know, as you have access to my router stats ::)

News to me ;D

Kevin


They allways say you learn something new each day.   :D :D :y