In and on!

Engineer phoned at about 8:20 I guess, said he was doing the cabinet.

The web-site said ~27mbps. The cabinet is 520m away following the road (and the cable goes underground at the bottom of my road so I guess it follows the road). The engineer wasn't sure if I'll actually get 15mbps being so far away and having such poor wiring in this area.

Came in at the top profile! Speed test clocked 37.46MB/sec; 17ms ping to multiplay.

All done by 9am.

Now just to see how this Buffalo router holds up...

Edited by Dash (Wed 20-Apr-11 09:12:29)

Please, what units are you using?

27millibits per second and then 37.46 MegaBytes per second. m - milli (1/1000); M - Mega (1,000,000); b - bits; B - Bytes.

Where did the 37.46 Mbps result come from? BT, TBB or speedtest.net?

Sorry, typo. 37.5mbps, bits not bytes That would be silly.

All speeds should have been listed in mebibits. The 37.46 mbps is reported from speedtest.net.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/1260515845.png

And a little update - I rebooted my router after making some none-WAN changes, and my ping dropped to 10ms!

Powered up counter-strike and got 17ms on some random server, thought that was pretty good.

Getting there ... M

kibi, Mebi, Gibi will confuse it even more though and do we know what the various testers do ... do they use 1024 in their calc and do they use it once or twice ...

What does the TBB speed test show? You will find a lot of debate about speedtest.net and its accuracy.

Close enough.

Edited by Dash (Wed 20-Apr-11 23:19:18)

The web-site said ~27mbps. The cabinet is 520m away following the road (and the cable goes underground at the bottom of my road so I guess it follows the road). The engineer wasn't sure if I'll actually get 15mbps being so far away and having such poor wiring in this area.

Why do engineers say these things? You would expect faster than 15Mbps on ADSL2 at 520m from your exchange wouldn't you?That would be an admission of some awful copper in the ground.

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In reply to a post by Dash:

having such poor wiring in this area

He did admit to some awful wiring. Some of the village is on aluminium, some on copper, some hasn't been updated in a long time.

I don't know what I'd expect from ADSL2 at that distance, as I don't live near the exchange, nor have ADSL2. Plus ADSL2 although is a *DSL technology is not VDSL2.

ADSL2+ over 520m of cable a sync of 21Mbps or sync

Pendant mode VDSL2 is still xDSL technology, and in actual fact VDSL2 kit will fall back to ADSL2+, then ADSL2 then ADSL on long cabinet to home cable distances. This means FTTC is still worth it for people who have 10km long lines and 5km is to the nearest cabinet, as they would jump from nothing or 0.25Meg to around 2 to 2.5Meg

The cabinet is 520m away

My line is 566m away, and I get full sync ???

lucky you...we get 25mbit at 600m

yep i`m even closer to my cabinet but i think my line is either poor or goes in massive detour before going to cab! 31mb down 8mb up.

I'd love to have a look at some of these lines. I've seen full 40 sync on 850m of 0.5 copper, that said, I have seen 16 meg on 700m of aluminium. My line runs through one of the most notoriously [censored] UG estates round this way.