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Hi,
sorry if this is a FAQ.
I switched to 10 meg 2 days ago,
adsl speet test tells me that I am only getting:
Downstream 4,748.7 Kbps ( = 4.6 Mbps )
Upstream 480.2 Kbps ( = 0.5 Mbps )
I realise that its up to 10meg but this still seems a bit slow. Is there anything I can do? how do I check that I have the right firmware for 10 meg? Do I need to do this?
At this rate I would be better off switching back to 2 meg and waiting for the upgrade.
please can anyone help me?
Do a search of the forum..........loads and loads of info
yea, looks like im not the only one!
UncleBooBoo
25-05-2006, 09:09
Same here, sometimes i'm only getting 3mb with around a 100k upload! :td:
Hi,
sorry if this is a FAQ.
I switched to 10 meg 2 days ago,
adsl speet test tells me that I am only getting:
Downstream 4,748.7 Kbps ( = 4.6 Mbps )
Upstream 480.2 Kbps ( = 0.5 Mbps )
I realise that its up to 10meg but this still seems a bit slow. Is there anything I can do? how do I check that I have the right firmware for 10 meg? Do I need to do this?
At this rate I would be better off switching back to 2 meg and waiting for the upgrade.
please can anyone help me?
Is this the adslguide.org.uk test or a US based one? I get 8Mbps down on the UK one.
What modem do you have - you cannot do anything about firmware yourself but there are known issues with certain variants.
Its possible you can tweak (or remove ol dial-up tweaks) from your PC TCP/IP settings - see the analyzer on http://www.speedguide.net.
But note of caution I have found that optimizing for fastest downloads seems to slow some other things down - maybe if a packet is lost there is a longer wait before a replacement is requested?
i get about 7meg in cardiff but thats due to my old cmx modem
speeds wil lvary on where you perform tests and where you download from
etccarmageddon
25-05-2006, 11:50
try this speed test instead which is better:-
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/speed.php
thanks. i get just over 6meg from that test which is adequate.
I have a silver modem, a 200 i think,
etccarmageddon
26-05-2006, 23:41
I get around 6-7meg - never much higher.
Chrysalis
27-05-2006, 05:14
I can get 9+meg of adslguide test but I think their bandwidth does get saturated as its used by a ton of people and their site is slow also.
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