What speed after 10 day period?

hi there,

been activated today and capped at 4 meg, with these stats what speed am i likely to achieve? ive been told about 3 meg ish so already a bit better. I am about 1.5km from the exchange if that helps at all.



ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4096 kbps 512 kbps
Line Attenuation 39.5db 23.5db
Noise Margin 18.8db 14.0db

8-12megs depending on if you're on g.dmt or ADSL2+

im on the llu if that helps? adsl2+? sorry i havent been on adsl for a very long time lol

Edited by deleted (Tue 01-Feb-11 19:47:22)

is this a regular thing on sky?

Tracing route to jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 49 ms 47 ms 51 ms cr3.ndtwe.uk.easynet.net [87.87.225.43]
3 252 ms 247 ms 246 ms 80.238.52.129
4 231 ms 231 ms 236 ms ip-89-200-131-195.ov.easynet.net [89.200.131.195
]
5 354 ms 415 ms 269 ms 195.66.225.116
6 217 ms 218 ms 218 ms hex-edge.netrino.co.uk [84.234.19.146]
7 232 ms 225 ms 228 ms bs1-core.netrino.co.uk [84.234.19.5]
8 236 ms 239 ms 244 ms www.jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86]

Trace complete.

like being back on 56 k!!

Tracing route to jolt.co.uk [84.234.17.86]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 25 ms 24 ms 24 ms dr3.enlba.isp.sky.com [89.200.128.44]
3 25 ms 24 ms 25 ms ip-89-200-131-74.ov.easynet.net [89.200.131.74]

4 32 ms 32 ms 38 ms linx-extreme1.netrino.co.uk [195.66.227.18]
5 32 ms 31 ms 52 ms thn-edge.netrino.co.uk [84.234.19.142]
6 32 ms 32 ms 32 ms hex-edge.netrino.co.uk [84.234.19.146]
7 33 ms 33 ms 33 ms bs1-core.netrino.co.uk [84.234.19.5]
8 33 ms 34 ms 32 ms bruce.ferrago.net [84.234.17.86]

Trace complete.

That's regular for Sky

Give CS a call and ask them to put you on the gaming profile. You can wait until the 10 day training period is up if you want but I rang them 20 minutes after being activated and they were more than happy to swap my profile.

Edited by Finguz (Tue 01-Feb-11 21:47:22)

Will my ping times improve if i ring and ask to change to the gaming profile?
I havent yet but pings seem a bit more stable now.


Tracing route to www.bbc.net.uk [212.58.244.69]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms <1 ms 4 ms 192.168.0.1
2 27 ms 28 ms 27 ms cr3.ndtwe.uk.easynet.net [87.87.225.43]
3 22 ms 25 ms 22 ms 80.238.52.129
4 26 ms 26 ms 26 ms te0-1-0-2.er11.thlon.ov.easynet.net [89.200.135.
99]
5 25 ms 24 ms 24 ms 212.58.238.189
6 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms 212.58.238.129
7 26 ms 25 ms 24 ms 212.58.239.58
8 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms 212.58.251.44
9 24 ms 25 ms 24 ms www.bbc.co.uk [212.58.244.69]

Trace complete.

speeds up to 7 meg but attenuation has raised from 39 is this normal? can i expect anymore speed or am i stuck now?

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 7004 kbps 796 kbps
Line Attenuation 43.5db 23.8db
Noise Margin 6.9db 11.0db

They may do but they are already good for Sky. The tech people have always been more than happy to change the profiles and they will probably run through all the different ones to see which suits your line best

Not sure about the change in attenuation, I never noticed it here, and it doesn't look like your speed is going to increase.

Edited by Finguz (Thu 03-Feb-11 20:14:47)

thanks for the reply. Well its better than the 3 mb i was quoted so im happy

Could still go up further.
Sky appear to start off at a lower power output, so the link has a lower margin available.
If you download the Sky D-Link password extractor from http://pathogenrush.blogspot.com/2010/10/dsl-2640s-p... it also has a button to obtain advanced stats. Within that it'll state the downstream and upstream power.

It'd probably be easier to just ring them and convince tier 1 to pass you over to tier 2 so you can get the gaming profile applied to your line.

I phoned up on the evening after my install and the updated me to gaming profile without any questions or passing me over to another tier of tech support. The whole process took 3 minutes during which I could see the router resync at a different SNR.