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What Max Speed can I get and why?
01-03-2016 11:26 AM
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The main thing I don't understand is what limits me to 4Mbps, is this hardware at the exchange or just cable length? Also will I benefit from FTTC when it finally arrives?
So if anyone can clarify here is what I do know:
Exchange name: Longmorn
Exchange code: NSLMN
Cabinet 3
Sam Knows says:
The following services are available in your location:
BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
I am 3700m away from the exchange as the crow flies but only 3000m from the cabinet.
Btw Speed test:
Download speedachieved during the test was - 2.43 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 1.2 Mbps-4 Mbps.
IP Profile for your line is - 2.81 Mbps
Re: What Max Speed can I get and why?
01-03-2016 11:43 AM
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From the sounds of it at 1.8 miles from your cabinet, you might not receive good FTTC speeds. However, it's difficult to tell until it's actually provisioned. Hopefully, I'm wrong. If you go to the following webpage, you could try to petition Openreach to upgrade your area if you gather enough support (and money) from your neighbours and council.
http://www.superfast-openreach.co.uk/where-and-when/
Hope this helps
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Re: What Max Speed can I get and why?
01-03-2016 12:14 PM
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If you are that far from the cabinet, you might not be able to get FTTC at all.
Re: What Max Speed can I get and why?
01-03-2016 12:33 PM
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So why 4Mbps?
and how would i go about switching to ADSL2/2+ ?
@Anoush BT website says FTTC will be available to my number within 4 months. Although sounds like it won't help much, you would think in rural areas like ours that BT would have installed more cabinets to cater for the many lines that are thi far from the existing cabinets
Re: What Max Speed can I get and why?
01-03-2016 12:40 PM
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Quote from: RobRS and how would i go about switching to ADSL2/2+ ?
You're already on ADSL2+
Quote from: RobRS yet my exchange shows no 21CN.
http://dslchecker.bt.com shows 21CN availability (ADSL2+)
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01-03-2016 12:46 PM
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01-03-2016 12:48 PM
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Re: What Max Speed can I get and why?
01-03-2016 12:53 PM
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Could you please post the ADSL stats from your modem/router, then we could get some idea of how good your speed is for your line.
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01-03-2016 12:56 PM
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Quote from: ejs ...Could you please post the ADSL stats from your modem/router, then we could get some idea of how good your speed is for your line.
Would do but its a home hub 4 and I believe doesn't really give any useful information.
I think a wise move would be to try a new router at some point to give more visibility. Did use the PN supplied Technicolor at first but swapped it when it started randomly dropping the line.
edit---------------
10:59:41, 01 Mar. (41212.620000) DSL noise margin: 6.00 dB upstream, 3.00 dB downstream
10:59:40, 01 Mar. (41212.050000) DSL line rate: 910 Kbps upstream, 3190 Kbps downstream
10:58:49, 01 Mar. (41161.160000) DSL is down after 684 minutes uptime
10:58:49, 01 Mar. (41161.160000) ETHoA is down after 684 minutes uptime
10:58:49, 01 Mar. (41160.820000) PPPoA is down after 683 minutes uptime [Waiting for Underlying Connection (WAN DSL - Up)]
10:58:46, 01 Mar. (41158.110000) PPP LCP Send Termination Request [User request]
That's the best I can get, notice the "PPP LCP Send Termination Request [User request]" this happens once or twice a day at the moment, please be aware also the line was down for a month, and has only been back up for 2 days.
Re: What Max Speed can I get and why?
02-03-2016 12:45 AM
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ADSL2+ is not always faster than ADSL1, having said that, what's your ADSL2+ estimate at http://dslchecker.bt.com? If it's higher than your current sync speed, then it's worth troubleshooting the fault at http://faults.plus.net and then potentially raising it to our faults team for further investigation.
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02-03-2016 6:11 AM
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ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3654 kbps 827 kbps
Line Attenuation 57.5 db 35.7 db
Noise Margin 3.5db 6.0 db
Re: What Max Speed can I get and why?
02-03-2016 8:16 AM
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02-03-2016 3:20 PM
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The only thing that doesn't add up now is the anomaly that I sometimes get on the BT wholesale speed test i.e. although everything suggests that I will never get more than about 4Mbs down, on some tests it has reported 9Mb, 12Mb and even 22Mb.
Could this be due to some kind of local caching on my PC?
Added screen shot off BTw Speed test anomaly.
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02-03-2016 4:57 PM
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02-03-2016 7:54 PM
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I don't know how the speed test works, but presumably just transfers data of a known size and calculates based on the time taken to transfer. The reason I thought cache, is the only way it could calculate incorrectly is if some of the data was on my PC from a previous test and didn't need to be transferred :-\.
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