Just moved house. 1/2 mile down road from exchange. Speeds look good. How do the other indicators look?
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 8128 kbps 832 kbps
Line Attenuation 15.5 db 8.5 db
Noise Margin 9.5 db 11 db
BUT I'm only seeing 2Mbps download on various speed testers? Any ideas?
Your profile may be stuck at 2Mbps. You wouldn't be the first for this to happen to. If it stays that way, let IDNet know and they can give it a nudge.
It may be that you have started a 10 day training period with the new line, I believe BT start at 2mb, or as Danni has said, it's a stuck profile.
I think it's the standard 'starter profile' and will lift within 24 hours or so. If not, IDNet will get it nudged for you on Monday.
Rik was right, earlier on this evening speeds have increased. Now getting 6859 kbps down and 693 kbps up. Can't say fairer than that for a very rural location.
though with a 15.5db attenuation you live darn close to the exchange
I wish I lived that close to the exchange!
Quote from: Colin Burns on Sep 26, 2009, 22:17:39
though with a 15.5db attenuation you live darn close to the exchange
I think that might be a Netgear router, in which case the true attenuation will be 31db.
It's a netgear. The exchange is about 1/2 mile down the road, telegraph poles all the way.
The attenuation suggests about 3km of cable, unless Netgear have sorted the bug, in which case it's about 1.5km. I'm guessing you may have aluminium cables.