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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Tue 15-Nov-11 20:58:01
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New Flat - New Broadband, What speeds?


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Connection Speed 4096 kbps 512 kbps
Line Attenuation 25.5 dB 16.5 dB
Noise Margin 17.9 dB 14.0 dB

Just went live today, ping is extremely high though at 67ms frown as this is the start of the training period what sort of speeds am i likely to get and will this ping be sorted?

Ground floor flat, the phone pole is outside my window lol wink
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(deleted) Tue 15-Nov-11 21:10:22
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Re: New Flat - New Broadband, What speeds?


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About 18 Megs. Ping what?
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(deleted) Tue 15-Nov-11 21:39:18
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http://speedtest.net/

Did a ping test to my local town and a number of other locations, best ping was 67ms


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Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Tue 15-Nov-11 22:23:57
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Pings to your own town are probably slower than other pings, as you will head down to the main Sky connection point, and then back across whatever network links back to the town.

Try a tracert www.thinkbroadband.com and see where the latency is occuring

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk
The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
Standard User deleted
(deleted) Thu 17-Nov-11 15:17:59
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Re: New Flat - New Broadband, What speeds?


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Went to the flat this morning as I've been away for a few days, the connection light was flashing orange like crazy frown. The cable was attached via a microfilter to standard BT faceplate.

However as I've recently purchased a new broadband faceplate laugh I fit it and reconnected the broadband cable. The light is now stable green, cannot check speeds until tomorrow. Will this have a negative effect on my broadband connection?
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(deleted) Fri 18-Nov-11 19:56:53
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Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 3234 5905 0 666 14068 0:05:22
LAN Up 7651 4926 0 17225 1416 0:09:20
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 9213 kbps 921 kbps
Line Attenuation 29.0 dB 16.3 dB
Noise Margin 9.8 dB 10.5 dB

How is it looking?, likely to increase?
Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Fri 18-Nov-11 23:47:27
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www.farina1.com/adsl 13500Kbps to 16500Kbps so yes should be able to go faster

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk
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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Sat 19-Nov-11 09:44:21
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Nice smile tx
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(deleted) Sat 19-Nov-11 19:33:39
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ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 9213 kbps 921 kbps
Line Attenuation 29.0 dB 16.3 dB
Noise Margin 11.9 dB 11.0 dB

come on speed up, uptime 17hrs laugh
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(deleted) Sun 20-Nov-11 00:10:51
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During testing on my line, each change took at least 24 hours and occurred @ about 02:30.

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(deleted) Sun 20-Nov-11 00:57:23
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thanks
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(deleted) Sun 20-Nov-11 08:40:37
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Connection Speed 12280 kbps 921 kbps

Line Attenuation 29.0 dB 16.3 dB

Noise Margin 8.2 dB 10.5 dB

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Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Sun 20-Nov-11 22:41:55
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Still scope for it to climb higher

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www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk
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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Sun 20-Nov-11 22:44:41
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It went to pot tonight been stable for 19hrs and is still up, the noise has dropped out to 5.6DB frown

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Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Mon 21-Nov-11 10:50:09
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Noise down to 5.6dB is not a problem. What were the other numbers at the same time, they are all interlinked so need to see all of them to see the interaction

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk
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Standard User epyon
(committed) Mon 21-Nov-11 11:04:19
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Low DB - more speed.

BE*Unlimited 17527/1412Kbps
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Standard User deleted
(deleted) Mon 21-Nov-11 21:09:29
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MrSaffron sorry if it happens again i'll get the full numbers!

This is what it looks like so far

Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 126512 200254 0 3249 83175 18:39:05
LAN Up 7708144 4351368 0 0 4057 73:23:17
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 12280 kbps 921 kbps
Line Attenuation 29.0 dB 16.3 dB
Noise Margin 8.4 dB 11.0 dB
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(deleted) Tue 22-Nov-11 09:03:41
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Nice!

WAN PPPoA 2469404 4429723 0 351 6999 6:25:25
LAN Up 17685931 9977811 0 514 2592 85:13:26
WLAN Down 0 0 0 0 0 0:00:00
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 15358 kbps 921 kbps
Line Attenuation 29.0 dB 16.3 dB
Noise Margin 7.8 dB 12.0 dB

Download Speed: 13232 kbps (1654 KB/sec )
Upload Speed: 781 kbps (97.6 KB/sec )
Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Tue 22-Nov-11 13:52:20
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Looks like the Sky DLM has finally let you get the speed we expected.

Sky is unique in its DLM starts off slow and then lets you go faster, almost all the other systems work the other way around.

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk
The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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(deleted) Fri 25-Nov-11 20:57:59
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Connection Speed 14328 kbps 948 kbps
Line Attenuation 29.5 dB 16.3 dB
Noise Margin 6.8 dB 7.5 dB
Connection Time 42:23:06

Looks like they felt 14.3mb was more stable as I did have 15MB frown
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(deleted) Sat 26-Nov-11 09:06:06
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Connection Speed 14328 kbps 948 kbps

Line Attenuation 29.5 dB 16.3 dB

Noise Margin 7.8 dB 8.0 dB

Connection Time 54:31:43

However why am I only getting Download Speed: 12337 kbps (1542.1 KB/sec ) as a download, should i not get near 14000 kbps?, is there any chance of asking sky for a speed increase after this 10day period which ends today?
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(deleted) Sat 26-Nov-11 12:11:14
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Ah well, guess I'll stick with this then thanks all smile

Line connection testing completed on 25/11/2011, resulting in the following settings:

Download speed setting
Your connection has been set to a download speed of up to 14.3Mbps .

Upload speed setting
Your connection has been set to an upload speed of up to 1.3Mbps .
Administrator MrSaffron
(staff) Sat 26-Nov-11 18:24:14
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With Sky your connection speed is not set in stone, e.g. if the line gets worse and it was set in stone then if the line degraded at all you would get nothing.

So this may explain why you are seeing slightly varying speeds, ADSL2+ over a phone line is not a fixed speed product, it will vary according to the conditions at that time of day.

You will normally only get around 88% of the sync speed, because this speed is for carrying ATM data, which means every 48 bytes of IP data require 53 of ATM data. The internet is IP based.

Andrew Ferguson, [email protected]
www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk
The author of the above post is a thinkbroadband staff member. It may not constitute an official statement on behalf of thinkbroadband.
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(deleted) Sat 26-Nov-11 23:08:11
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thankyou smile
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