bt max question

[holy god of nil]

ok so i have bt yahoo broadband (yes i know most of you are laughing by now, but to me it is stable, well supported and only a bit too expensive) anyways so now i find that bt are introducing 'max', does anyone know how i can find out how fast my connection will be?
i live 900 odd metres from my exchange according to samknows.

[Funkstar]

there are a lot of factors. The distance the wire travels from the exchange to you, the quality of that line, the number of joins in it etc etc

until everyone starts moving to Max there is no real way to say to be honest, even then, it will just be a guess until you actually connect.

[neonplanet40]

how do i know when my exchange will be enabled? i could really do with a faster uplaod....

Neon

[Ramedge]

ok so i have bt yahoo broadband (yes i know most of you are laughing by now, but to me it is stable, well supported and only a bit too expensive) anyways so now i find that bt are introducing 'max', does anyone know how i can find out how fast my connection will be?
i live 900 odd metres from my exchange according to samknows.

From what i know, you should be able to recieve an 8mb connection but with all the overheads that you have with the max service you should see aroun 7.2meg connection.
thats certianly what you should expect seeing how far you live away from the exchange also upload should increas to something lile 466kbps.

Neon, BT are going to start rolling the serivce at the end of the month, I am not sure how long it will take for them to get all the exchanges enabled and iam not sure if you will have to wait longer becuase your in ireland, i am sure you wont though.

[Kev79]

The majority of exchanges will be ready for the launch on the 31st March with some following shortly afterwards. The only exchanges which will not feature Max services are AEA exchanges (Where a local company/council has paid to upgrade the exchange) which only currently support 512kbps anyway.

[Flash]

gimme your downstream attenuation and downstream SnR and I'll tell you

[Stoo]

Attenuation: 54 dB
Output Power: 19.5 dBm
Noise Margin: 11.5 dB

Currently running on 2Mbit.. Just waiting for the Max switch on

Make of that what you will

[kempez]

Try this mate: http://212.23.23.177/calc.htm

[Flash]

Attenuation: 54 dB
Output Power: 19.5 dBm
Noise Margin: 11.5 dB

Currently running on 2Mbit.. Just waiting for the Max switch on

Make of that what you will

you will get near enough to 4Mbit with that mate, how is your internal wiring is your router straight into the master socket?

[Funkstar]

ADSL Link (Downstream/Upstream)
Connection Speed = 2272 kbps / 288 kbps
Line Attenuation = 24 db / 6.5 db
Noise Margin = 22 db / 30 db

i take it i should enter 24 and 22 into that site?

[neonplanet40]

227
6.5
30.2

My router says i have an attainable line rate of 11296 Kbps down and 1092 Kbps up.

Neon

[Stoo]

you will get near enough to 4Mbit with that mate, how is your internal wiring is your router straight into the master socket?

Yup, in fact a BT engineer moved the master socket next to the incoming drop-lead in the loft, so it's all filtered at source..

My line is just an unreliable POS tbh..

Quite often it'll just throw a wobbly and I'll get a line error and the SNR margin with drop to something like -9dB, and it'll stay there until either we call out or someone calls in..

But seeing as it took around 6 months for a gaggle of BT engineers to collectively shrug their shoulders at it, and say "we haven't a clue what's wrong with it", I'm not that interested in flogging that dead horse for another 6 months for it to get anywhere..

They were going to put me on a different pair, but at the time they wouldn't guarantee that the new pair could even get BB, and my idea of getting a new line in at the same time to see if it was any better or not seemed to get shot down in flames..

*Prays for LLU*