fair enough speed?

Have just run the speed tester and get 3121.84 Kbps down and 368.17 Kbps up and this on Zen Lite.

Not being technically savvy, are these reasonable results for my £20 a month?

In reply to a post by Littleseen:

are these reasonable results for my £20 a month?

How long is a piece of string? Or more pertinent, your line to exchange?

To answer that post your router stats: How to get your router line stats.

I pay what works out at £3.75 a month for double that speed! Your router stats would far more useful, Attenuation in particular would be almost Key to your question.

Edit beaten to it while I did my sums...

Edited by NilSatisOptimum (Thu 23-Feb-12 16:30:52)

well that's me stuffed? Netgear 814 gives this copy/paste

Unfortunately this router is unable to provide any linestats.

Me made a boo-boo which some say is standard operating procedure for bunnies in this burrow

Do not have a Netgear 814, that was the last one. Have disinterred 2011 box & replacement router is a DG834 all-wired job and which is never ever switched off from the BT landline which is twisted-copper on the wooden poles this area.

I tried to run the router checker thingy but didn't understand what I was supposed to do.

The router btw sorts stuff out to my wife's standalone pc or to mine. I pay Zen an additional £30 a year for the router to handle two seperate e-mail addresses so that she gets her stuff and I get mine & no mix-ups.

I do have a paid-for extra usage if I exceed my Zen Lite cap but I don't think I have ever needed same? As octogenarians we mostly cruise the web and do e-mails. The Zen technical help is always brilliant (should it be needed) but the BBC news item now got me in a lather about what are reasonable speeds.

In reply to a post by Littleseen:

tried to run the router checker thingy but didn't understand what I was supposed to do.

Just click this link: http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?next_file=stattbl.htm, login to router (Default username = admin, password = password) and copy and paste here what you see it display in your Browser.

FYI: Routers have nowt to do with e-mail addresses; Zen has just reserved two for you on its email server.

Also paste back results from the BT speed test here http://speedtester.bt.com

Its all about the sync speed you can achieve and if you are getting good throughput on a speed test compared to your sync speed.

If your line syncs at a low rate then this rate would apply to any isp you may use, assuming your line is working correctly.

I find Zen have great throughput at any time of the day on my line.

Have had a fullsome & mega-fast reply from "Phil" of Zen tech. What he says makes sense, his investigs suggest only a few extra mph possible my line (& not not worth the hassle if I don't need same & I don't). I am linked by furlongs of twisted-copper strung on telephone poles so there!

All is well, at least well enough. Good folk at Zen came up trumps as they always do & before other folk migrate that is an aspect worth considering?

The superb irony of this is the 4-inch-dia green-plastic four-compartment fibre-optic cable duct in my house's pavement. It links universites. Three chambers are empty and the fourth is about one-tenth-filled by a fibre-optic cable. Excavated in untold miles of highway trenching, it goes from Bournemouth to Southampton to Isle of Wight and who knows where else and not one single commercial fibre-optic in it.

I wonder what gov dept had all that on its budget?

Janet. Janet is funded by JISC

Paul

Edited by deleted (Fri 24-Feb-12 10:30:28)