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Speed Always Dropping During Download
11-02-2014 3:06 PM
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I haven't made any configuration changes and have had the same NetGear DG834 PN router for a pretty long time. I've tried what I can on the "how to get the best broadband speed" help topic other than connecting to the master socket (I don't have a new style master socket to connect to).
Also, although line speed is showing as 8MB estimated / 7.1MB current, earlier in the day the same page was showing [17MB estimated / 7.1MB current (I have a screenshot of this). Does this suggest line speed is likely to improve in the future?
Would really appreciate any suggestions on how I might get improved download speeds and in particular how to resolve the issue of a download speed which drops so dramatically during the download.
I'm still planning to upgrade to PlusNet Fibre at some point btw, just waiting for some new power sockets to be installed.
Thanks
Re: Speed Always Dropping During Download
11-02-2014 3:12 PM
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Regarding download speeds a couple of questions
Which site are you downloading from and which internet security package are you using
Re: Speed Always Dropping During Download
11-02-2014 3:32 PM
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11-02-2014 3:34 PM
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To argue with someone who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead - Thomas Paine
Re: Speed Always Dropping During Download
11-02-2014 3:41 PM
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Downstream:
Connection Speed - 8128 kbps
Line Attenuation - 24.0 db
Noise Margin - 8.6 db
Upstream:
Connection Speed - 448 kbps
Line Attenuation - 14.0 db
Noise Margin - 27.0 db
Download sites are varied, for example Microsoft.com training material, data files from landregistry.co.uk nothing out of the ordinary
Re: Speed Always Dropping During Download
11-02-2014 4:00 PM
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11-02-2014 5:32 PM
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It's interesting to see the change in network utilisation once speed starts to drop (2 screenshots from task manager attached).
Should I raise a support ticket?
Thanks
Re: Speed Always Dropping During Download
12-02-2014 1:02 AM
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The other thing to check for is exchange congestion on the 20CN network - http://usertools.plus.net/exchanges/.
Re: Speed Always Dropping During Download
13-02-2014 9:57 AM
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I've checked for congestion and exchange status checker shows green at the moment. On Samknows my exchange shows 21CN WBC as enabled. Is that ADSL2+ or should I be looking somewhere else? Meanwhile estimated line speed is back at 8Mb.
Thanks again
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13-02-2014 10:13 AM
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13-02-2014 2:51 PM
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13-02-2014 4:12 PM
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14-02-2014 11:30 AM
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16-02-2014 5:54 PM
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Is general opinion that I will see some overall speed improvement when this is implemented? And is rate adaptive technology a good or bad thing? I'm told it will take around 5 days for modification to happen.
Thanks
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16-02-2014 7:54 PM
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