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[Georgy291]

could well be. my modem was flashing as it disconnected for 10 mins about 15 minutes ago and when I reconnected, everything is on turbo mode and downloads are flying.

I've ran various tests and it's flicking from 85-110 at the moment so it appears to be constant

[EDIT]
Just disconnected again and saw a virgin engineer at the cabinet outside. Just ran another test and lo and behold it's getting slightly faster

damn someone beat me?

what network card are you using? surely its capped by 100meg network card?

[Lee H]

what network card are you using? surely its capped by 100meg network card?

Edimax EW-7728In 802.11n wireless card

Router is basically next to the PC so the wireless signal is 100% and connected at maximum speed of 270-300

[EDIT] Just in from work and the modem was off during the day. A quick speed test now shows the following ;



Ahh well, it was good while it lasted lol

[Stephen C]

Really not happy with my speeds..

Sky Broadband Max Unlimited



Something's not right though, for the first year or two we had this connection I was kitting speeds of 14mb/s and slowly but surely it's dropped and now In the last year I'm lucky if I hit 3mb/s.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3232 kbps 768 kbps
Line Attenuation 43.0 db 26.5 db
Noise Margin 5.4 db 16.0 db

Sky are useless, they constantly tell me that my line can only take 4mb/s but I don't understand that, I have been getting around 14mb/s for 2 years then suffered a serious decline in speeds over the past year. I do download a hell of alot of media due to my work.. on average around 5gb a week but I don't think they've capped me, I've complained about the speeds around 6 times so surely they would of sorted it by now if it were a cap.

Tried various tests, unplugged all phones in the house, ran from the test socket.. nothing works.
Fed up with it.

[spoon_]

what network card are you using? surely its capped by 100meg network card?

If something was capped it would be the WAN port on the router, right?

[burble]

Something's not right though, for the first year or two we had this connection I was kitting speeds of 14mb/s and slowly but surely it's dropped and now In the last year I'm lucky if I hit 3mb/s.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3232 kbps 768 kbps
Line Attenuation 43.0 db 26.5 db
Noise Margin 5.4 db 16.0 db

With those line statistics that's about the best sync rate you're going to get.

If your sync rate has dropped by 10Mbit or so then I would assume there is a damaged cable or faulty joint somewhere. Is the voice portion of the line OK? Dial 17070 from a phone and do the quiet line test - is the line quiet? Is the router connected to the NTE where the lines comes into your house or at an extension?

[Stephen C]

With those line statistics that's about the best sync rate you're going to get.

If your sync rate has dropped by 10Mbit or so then I would assume there is a damaged cable or faulty joint somewhere. Is the voice portion of the line OK? Dial 17070 from a phone and do the quiet line test - is the line quiet? Is the router connected to the NTE where the lines comes into your house or at an extension?

The line's quiet and the router's connected direct to the test socket where the line enters the house.
The drop wasn't sudden though, it had gone down to 14, then 12, then 10, then 8, then 5 all over the course of 3-4 years and now it's resting at an average of 2-3.

[WaKKo-]

more than happy with mine

[Rainmaker]

Lee @ Scan... Those results are anomalous. 99% of the time they're caused by caching in your antivirus as it scans incoming web traffic. Sorry...

When you say your downloads were flying, were you referring to your speedtest, or were you actually getting 18 MB/sec (megaBYTES) from FTP/NNTP/whatever, to fit with your apparent throughput? Did you check the modem config file for your configured speed? While there are some limited 200Mbps trials being carried out at the moment, you'd certainly know if you'd been placed on it. They're not taking place in Manchester though, and they don't have 1.5Mbps upload (the 50 meg package does though).

Antivirus caching or speedtest server glitch it is then. I wish VM would hurry up and roll out 200/20. That'd be awesome.

[Bitemarks666]

[Philipp]

[Ben Rogers]

I live in a hamlet in north devon yet I sync at 8mbit exactly....nothing compared to most but it is good for where I live. Very rural area to say the least, oh and my ISP is Pipex..

[Antagram]

Using Fast.co.uk at 15:10 on a Sunday. Interleave disabled after request to ISP.

[pp05]

I'm soo jealous.

[Ben Rogers]

Where do you live too, Antagram?

Do you sync at the full 8Mbit to get those speeds?

I am suprised what I get from Pipex which from experience now owned by Tiscali of course are nothing like how good they used to be back in the day!! the service is generally fine but their customer support centres are not good at all. It takes about an hour to talk to someone and even then they don't have much of a clue as to how to solve the issue.

[Bitemarks666]

Where do you live too, Antagram?

Do you sync at the full 8Mbit to get those speeds?

I am suprised what I get from Pipex which from experience now owned by Tiscali of course are nothing like how good they used to be back in the day!! the service is generally fine but their customer support centres are not good at all. It takes about an hour to talk to someone and even then they don't have much of a clue as to how to solve the issue.

Tiscali are now owned by talktalk

[Ben Rogers]

Oh, it changes to fast I can't keep up with it! Thanks for that useful piece of information though.