How to maximise upload speed

[#1]

Hi
I'm on Unlimited Fibre with 'up to 38Mb download speeds up to 19.5Mb upload speeds' - I'm currently getting between 15-20Mb down and about 15Mb up.
I'd like to improve the download speeds as well but maximising the upload is what's important to me.  I've heard about the Pro Add-on and the Max Premium - would they help me achieve the max 19.5Mb upload speed?
Thanks,
Steve

[#2]

Hi, if you use this link it will tell you more about it http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/products/pro-Add-On-faq.shtml if you wait for a few seconds a chat window should open so you can ask them directly...may be quicker than the forums!

[#3]

Neither of them will help you increase the upload speed
You are stuck with what you have
Regarding download speed you should be getting much better than that - what does this say https://portal.plus.net/my.html?action=data_transfer_speed and are you testing wired or wireless

[#4]

are you using wireless wired ? decent PC spec ? Gigabit lan ? lots of things effect this however your down seems very slow

[#5]

The speeds have jumped up to 73 Mbps down and 17 Mbps up now - a bit more in keeping with the line speed of 77Mb.  I tried both wifi and Ethernet (Mac Pro 2009 w. b/g/n Airport Extreme) and the results were almost identical.  Guess there was just heavier contention or something this afternoon.
Thanks for the advice OldJim, good to know I'm already doing everything I can to max things, but one more question -
I work from home and often have to send quite large amounts of data (1 - 10GB) to a client in the afternoon.  The Pro Add-On claims to offer greater priority, so is it something I would see a benefit from in terms of reliability and contention? Or is it something that only really applies to those not on FTTC? I don't know how contended my local exchange (EASHE) is but I would guess it sees heavier traffic in the evenings.

[#6]

If you are on an Unlimited account the Pro add-on will do nothing for you as it only changes the relative prioritisation of your traffic when you are already maxing out your line.
In any case it affects downloads only!

[#7]

OK, great. Thanks for all the replies.  This seems like a well attended and helpful forum - nice one Plus.net + it's community!