Early days with SKY.

Hi all

Ive only been with SKY Mid for about a week but the speeds I am getting are fluctauting so much.

They range from 300Kbps to 4000Kbps.

Is this normal.....will it setle down eventually.......is there anything I can do or check?

My line is syncing at 6336Kbps.....LA 48.0db.....NM 10.4db.

Previous to SKY i was with Pipex and my connection was very stable but I was only getting approx 1200Kbps.

I guess you could check the Sky router's detailed stats when your speeds drop down to 300kbps to see if there is a significant increase in the rate of CRC or HEC errors.


Sky router Stats

If the above link gets messed up by the forum code try http://pathogenrush.blogspot.com/2007/08/sky-netgear-dg834gt_1415.html

And try connecting the router direct to the test point behind the master socket to see if the connection improves.

If you are getting significant errors try increasing the SNR Margin (google for Mognuts I think).

Still seeing very fluctauting speeds usaully around 1.3Mbps now.

This cant be right.

Last night I coudnt even connect.

Tried connecting via test socket but due to the connection speeds being so varying I cant really see any improvement.

My wireless set up is fine with full/excellent connection to the router.

Ive tried optimizing the connection using speedguide test.

I can only assume its the router or SKY.

Here are my router stats if they mean anything to anyone.



ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
inet addr:90.195.84.152 P-t-P:195.189.159.164 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:94475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:55288 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:113887378 (108.6 MiB) TX bytes:9040376 (8.6 MiB)

Uptime 155142.74 154937.52
Wan up 125899.06 125702.18
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime Channel: INTR, Upstream rate = 416 Kbps, Downstream rate = 6400 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: G.DMT
Channel: Interleave
Trellis: ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 9.8 14.0
Attn(dB): 48.0 31.5
Pwr(dBm): 19.7 0.8
Max(Kbps): 6976 1152
Rate (Kbps): 6400 416
G.dmt framing
K: 201(0) 14
R: 16 16
S: 1 16
D: 64 8
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 1 1
B: 232 14
M: 1 16
T: 1 1
R: 16 16
S: 1.0686 17.0666
L: 1864 120
D: 64 8
Counters
SF: 9058690 9058688
SFErr: 1599391 168
RS: 615990926 38499424
RSCorr: 516444032 776
RSUnCorr: 34422918 0

HEC: 1559517 120
OCD: 6986 0
LCD: 12 0
Total Cells: 2276982089 0
Data Cells: 10647627 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 41489 0
SES: 29916 0
UAS: 43 0
Total time = 1 days 19 hours 5 min 42 sec
SF = 9122323
CRC = 1599391
LOS = 131
LOF = 0
ES = 41489
Latest 1 day time = 19 hours 5 min 42 sec
SF = 4043592
CRC = 1373071
LOS = 39
LOF = 0
ES = 29275
Latest 15 minutes time = 5 min 42 sec
SF = 20173
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52930
CRC = 5
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 2
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
SF = 5078731
CRC = 226320
LOS = 92
LOF = 0
ES = 12214
15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52931
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52989
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52872
CRC = 0
LOS = 1
LOF = 0
ES = 1

Just tried the speed test again and now Im getting 3.2 Mbps.

I also tried the test on my sons new laptop and hes getting a steady 5.0Mbps.

Thats not fair!

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My wireless set up is fine with full/excellent connection to the router.

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That matters not a bit. With my laptop it always shows up as full connection to the router but turning the laptop round 90 degress can double the result of speedtests. In my sitting room the average speedtest result is around the 2.5MB mark, but if I move the laptop to the same room as the router it is a fairly constant 6.8MB.
Moral of the story... don't trust speedtests over wireless, connect an ethernet cable for reliable and accurate results.

Regards,
Steve

Admitedly my sons laptop is only inches away from the router but unfortunatly I dont have a long enough eathernet cable to plug into mine.

How come I didnt have this problem with my last ISP?

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How come I didnt have this problem with my last ISP?

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Different router?

Regards,
Steve

Same make exactly

What do I do if I want to try my old router?

If you had the Netgear DG834GT with your last ISP and you're now using the Sky badged version the firmware will be different. Whether that affects the antenna output power or not I've no idea.

Regards,
Steve