Little bit of giudence please..

[#1]

Living where we do, im aware that we are never going to get a connection speed of more than 3 bps...
But when I run the cursor over the broadband icons I get 'very good 24 bpms'..pop up....can someone actually explain to me how this figure sits with 3 bps?.......
In plain English!! lol
Thanks
Date  Download Speed  Upload Speed 
Today 19:41 1608 kbps (201kB/s) 380 kbps (47.5kB/s)
Today 19:40 1602 kbps (200kB/s) 329 kbps (41.1kB/s)
Today 19:40 1691 kbps (211kB/s) 379 kbps (47.4kB/s)
Today 19:38 1670 kbps (209kB/s) 381 kbps (47.6kB/s)

[#2]

Ignoring your mix up of units the answer is straightforward I think.
One is the connection from the router to the internet and the other is your computer to the router

[#3]

Thanks for the quick reply Jim..
Yep I understand the difference between the two icons...so its normal for them bother to say the same thing all the time then?...at present they both now say 48Mbps...48 what?...
I have just tried the speed test (data added to OP above) and the metres read as just over 1.5 upload speed and 377 download..can I take it that im just not converting from megabytes to kilo bytes? when in relation to the figures I quoted (48mbs) in the first paragraph
Thanks

[#4]

You are going to have to help here as I don't know why you have two icons.
However, if you are connecting by wireless, one might be the windows icon and the other the wireless software icon.
Can you provide a bit more information about what the icons are supposed to represent
Edit Mbps is megabits per second.
Your line speed is in kbps or kilobits per second

[#5]

Quote from: The

at present they both now say 48Mbps...48 what?...

48 Megabits per second.  This will (likely) be the speed of your wireless connection to your router from your computer.

Quote from: The

and the metres read as just over 1.5 upload speed and 377 download..

Confusingly, your downstream rate is in Megabits per second (1.5Mbps ~ 1500Kbps), but your upload speed seems to be in Kilobits per second.    This is the speed of the connection between your router, and Plusnet's network.  This is the 'bottleneck' in most home internet situations.
B.

[#6]

Also remember that data files on your computer are sized in Bytes (8 bits to the byte).  So if your download speed is 1600 kbps, that is equivalent to 200 k Bytes per second so it should take you 50 seconds to download a 10,000 k Byte file. 

[#7]

Thanks chaps..
Old Jim...the two icons..as you rightly sumised are I beleive the internet and the computer-router speed / connection
Thanks for the explainations..I realised there was an issue with the way the bytes were notated afterwards, but could make the conversion..
Given the info it seems that my download speeds..(average1.5) are pretty poor then?...even though im only two miles from the exchange and apparently its maximum output is only 3..

[#8]

Please post the full router stats - noise margin, attenuation and speeds - then we can possibly help to improve things

[#9]

Attached.
Noise margin looks high.

[#10]

Presumably the last resynch was in the evening after dark at 15dB and the noise margin has subsequently increased to 18dB.
Even given a 15dB default noise margin the speeds appear a bit low.
Is it possible to connect to the test socket and report the results

[#11]

And a max stable rate of 576Kbps is strange since his current sync speed is 2336.  Is this a fixed rate connection?

[#12]

Also, and even more worrying - i missed it originally - upstream speed 256 kbps indicates something is seriously wrong

[#13]

Not a fixed rate connection.
The errors on upstream indicates that there's a problem somewhere.

[#14]

James,
Please clarify.
I assumed it was a standard Max DSL line and that the upstream speed was very low.
Are you now saying it is a fixed speed connection which I would have expected to be 2272 kbps downstream not 2336 kbps

[#15]

Quote from: Oldjim

Please post the full router stats - noise margin, attenuation and speeds - then we can possibly help to improve things

Jim mate, with total respect..im a painter and decorator not an computer internet electronics engineer!! lol
From the subsequent posts can I take it something is afoot (and dont say '12 inches' lol)....I have been coincerned about this speed thing for a while but didnt have a clue who to take it to to resolve..
If someone could guide me to what info you need I will do my very best to assist..
Thanks again guys...