What am I doing wrong

My broadband speed seems to be getting faster.

I started out averaging about 8mb when I joined plusnet in April, and i'm getting speeds of about 12mb (not complaining mind).

Here my latest test - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/1...

Thumbs up to plusnet.

I should keep quiet if I was you, everyone else will expect the same

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/button/12963...

Edited by deleted (Sat 29-Jan-11 19:29:11)

Copy and paste a link of the result you get for your exchange using this it might help to explain the increase

What you've done wrong is to not ask for your upstream to be uncapped.

Is there a technical reason why it's capped by default.

Here it is.

In reply to a post by wingco1:

Is there a technical reason why it's capped by default.

No.

A reason I've seen given several times by Plusnet is that uncapping the upstream can steal a bit of bandwidth from the downstream.

However I've not seen a single report from a user saying that their downstream has decreased as a result of the upstream being uncapped.

As 21CN was enabled on your exchange in 2009 I think you have probably been on that since the beginning.

Has your IP Profile increased or just the results you get from speed tests?

In reply to a post by jelv:

A reason I've seen given several times by Plusnet is that uncapping the upstream can steal a bit of bandwidth from the downstream.

However I've not seen a single report from a user saying that their downstream has decreased as a result of the upstream being uncapped.

That sounds more like Annex M on ADSL2+ to me, where some normal upstream frequencies are nicked to provide over 1.3Mbps capability. Someone getting confused maybe.

Up to 1.3Mbps (Annex A) does not affect upstream frequency allocation.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 30-Jan-11 10:54:53)