Zen doubled my download cap this month :-) but my speed increased too !

[Zak33]

I know lots of you think that £25 per month is a lot, so ignoring that, for the first time EVER, in May I hit my 25gig download/upload limit!

Downloading games to test and mammoth online activity bought me up to the 25 gig so a couple of quid spent online to increase my bandwidth was invested to keep me working.
but then, purely by coincidecem Zen upped everone's limit to 50gb

I get to keep the slight amount left over that I didn't use from my £2 spend...
but what's weird, and what this thread is about...
is that my broadband speed increased dramatically on the same day.

I was moved across to ADSL2 a while ago, and with my new router, I was getting the obvious upload improvement but not a lot of download increase... and that's been for 3 months.

but now... it's gone up noteably.

Any thougts or inside info on why guys? I'm not saddened, clearly, but it would be good to know why?

[Zak33]

here's my old post
http://forums.hexus.net/networking-b...p-running.html

was just under 4mb... around 3.8 from memory.

I'm on 6.2 tonight.. and have been all day.

[Zak33]

[circuitmonkey]

ahh, coolio... do you happen to remember the url for the page to monitor you currect usage?

[Jiff Lemon]

When I was with Zen, I used to use their Firefox plugin

[chrestomanci]

...
is that my broadband speed increased dramatically on the same day.

I was moved across to ADSL2 a while ago, and with my new router, I was getting the obvious upload improvement but not a lot of download increase... and that's been for 3 months.

but now... it's gone up noteably.

Any thougts or inside info on why guys? I'm not saddened, clearly, but it would be good to know why?

I am also on Zen, and I have just checked my router stats. My speed has also gone up, but in my case only by about 5% (~6400 Kbps to 6784 kbps)

My understanding of how ADSL works, is that it is possible for the ISP to "turn up the volume" a little if they want to, but they have to balance things carefully as otherwise the noise will go up as well and the overall speed will go down. I guess Zen have been fine tuning the gain on our lines.

On a related note, I got a much bigger increase in ADSL speed a couple of months back by sorting out the phone cables in my house. I installed a new high quality splitter next to my master socket, and then ran both the voice and the ADSL along Cat5 to my office. The speed went up from just over 4 Meg to around 6.

The ADSL filter, cable and associated stuff came from Clarity, though I did have problems with my order with them, which they where rather slow to sort out, so I can't really give them a full recommendation.

[peterb]

Hmm - I've had a 50GB limit since I moved to ADSL2 (at £30/month) but as I'm only about 1.5Km from the exchange I get around 6500Kb/s anyway.

However looking at this link shows that Zen have doubled all their limits - so I must check mine - and the line speeds!

Hmmm - download has doubled, but my line speed has dropped a bit - nothing dramatic, but there has abeen a gradual reduction since January. Still, last time that happened there was a BRAS reset so I'll just watch and wait.

[TeePee]

Just to throw it out there:


Not bad for $19.99 a month...

[peterb]

Yes, but you are on cable - not ADSL.

[Terbinator]

Speedtest never gets the DL right, i get around 24Mb with GrabIt.

[Zak33]

Just to throw it out there:


Not bad for $19.99 a month...

#

git.. total git

that is all...

imagine the servers I could host on that upload speed

[pollaxe]

I've been with Zen ever since my God-forsaken bit of the world got broadband (about 4-5 years ago.)
They've been nothing short of excellent with every dealing I've had with them.
I have, however, been paying £25 per month for all that time for unlimited downloads on my.. 512 kpbs line.. yes, the best I can get, living in the sticks as I do. They offered me the line upgrade and capped d/ls but as they couldn't guarantee the line speed would increase then I decided to stay where I was. I'd been on ISDN before that and can still remember when I was a LPB on Quake 2 online.

Ho hum.

So don't feel too bad when looking at Teepee's stats!

[Funkstar]

I think my Zen connection is about 14mbit down and 1.2mbit down, or something like that (connection rate anyway). I'll do a speed test later today when I get home.

[Syllopsium]

I used to be on Zen with the unlimited 512Kb ADSL option, and managed to download up to 60GB one month.

As Zen went to ADSL Max with a particularly low limit (25GB? I've downloaded 12GB in a day rebuilding systems..) I looked around elsewhere and moved to Be Internet. Slightly cheaper, 10+ Mb down, 1.2Mb up on the same line, no limits. I might consider moving back to Zen if Be fail, and once their 100GB/month allowance is in place..

[Funkstar]

As Zen went to ADSL Max with a particularly low limit (25GB? I've downloaded 12GB in a day rebuilding systems..) I looked around elsewhere and moved to Be Internet. Slightly cheaper, 10+ Mb down, 1.2Mb up on the same line, no limits. I might consider moving back to Zen if Be fail, and once their 100GB/month allowance is in place..

I wanted to sign up to Be, but there was some confusion about my exchange. Samknows.com said it was due to be enabled at a certain date, Be knew nothing about it. That was a year ago and it's still not enabled.

[oolon]

BTW only download counts against your limit upload is for information only. Checkout the Zen Portal.