ADSL Max speed query

Hi everyone, I have a query regarding my speed on ADSL Max. I am paying for
'upto 8 meg', but although I am syncing at 4476 all the time, I dont get any
more than 1998kbps. Should I be expecting more than this? I have a feeling
that the speed is being throttled by the ISP, but just wanted some advice
from the good burgers in this newsgroup before I make a phonecall. Surely
if my modem is holding up a connection sync on 4476, then I should be
expecting a bit more that 1998kbps on this service?

Thanks
Steve

it will take up to 3 days for your line profile (bras) is updated, im
syncing at 8mb not but only get 240k down, u have to disconnect everyday at
night to make it go up ive heard!
"Steve" <not-a-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Hi everyone, I have a query regarding my speed on ADSL Max. I am paying
> for
> 'upto 8 meg', but although I am syncing at 4476 all the time, I dont get
> any
> more than 1998kbps. Should I be expecting more than this? I have a
> feeling
> that the speed is being throttled by the ISP, but just wanted some advice
> from the good burgers in this newsgroup before I make a phonecall. Surely
> if my modem is holding up a connection sync on 4476, then I should be
> expecting a bit more that 1998kbps on this service?
>
> Thanks
> Steve
>
>
>
>

"Carl Boys" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> it will take up to 3 days for your line profile (bras) is updated, im
> syncing at 8mb not but only get 240k down, u have to disconnect everyday
at
> night to make it go up ive heard!

Maybe so, but I have had 'ADSL Max - up to 8meg' for almost three months now
and nothing has changed.

Even though the connectin has been dropped overnight almost every night.

Steve

Steve wrote:
> Hi everyone, I have a query regarding my speed on ADSL Max. I am
> paying for 'upto 8 meg',

That can be interpreted as "never ever more than 8 mbit/s". Anything
below can be expected.

> but although I am syncing at 4476 all the
> time, I dont get any more than 1998kbps. Should I be expecting more
> than this? I have a feeling that the speed is being throttled by the
> ISP, but just wanted some advice from the good burgers in this
> newsgroup before I make a phonecall. Surely if my modem is holding
> up a connection sync on 4476, then I should be expecting a bit more
> that 1998kbps on this service?

My modem synchronises usually around 6.8 Mbit/s, but I never get more
than 2.5 Mbit/s downstream, in the evenings as low as 500 kbit/s. But
according to my ISP Eclipse (and I am not happy with that at all) as
long as it doesn't go below 400 kbit/s BT won't accept it as a fault on
the line. And the only speed test BT accepts now is the one on their
website http://speedtester.bt.com/ that funnily enough works in the
mornings, but never in the evenings when the bandwidth is low.

Regards,
Gunde

I've just requested my MAC code. I will be moving away from Eclipse very
soon hopefully Awful speed problems. Awful customer support.

Dan

"Gundemarie Scholz" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> My modem synchronises usually around 6.8 Mbit/s, but I never get more
> than 2.5 Mbit/s downstream, in the evenings as low as 500 kbit/s. But
> according to my ISP Eclipse (and I am not happy with that at all) as
> long as it doesn't go below 400 kbit/s BT won't accept it as a fault on
> the line. And the only speed test BT accepts now is the one on their
> website http://speedtester.bt.com/ that funnily enough works in the
> mornings, but never in the evenings when the bandwidth is low.

Thanks for the response, but what I am looking for is why I am syncing at
4400kbps+ and only getting less than 2mbit. I am asking the following
question:

If a modem is syncing at 4400kbps, surely that means the connection is good
for around 4400bkps (or thereabouts) ?
If someone can confirm this, I will call my ISP and tell them my sync speed
is over 4400kpbs and that my download speed is less than half this speed.

Another question I am looking for an answer to is what should I be expecting
as the upload speed on ADSL Max? Does this vary widely too?

Thanks Guys and Gals
Steve

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:57:20 +0100, "Steve"
<not-a-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>If a modem is syncing at 4400kbps, surely that means the connection is good
>for around 4400bkps (or thereabouts) ?

If you are syncing at 4400kbps then the BRAS in the exchange will
limit the throughput to 3500kbps. There's a table that shows the sync
speed to BRAS profile on ADSL guide - I don't know the url offhand
though.

You will also lose a bit more due to server response times and other
dross so I would guess the best you will see, at very quiet times of
the day, is around 3250kbps.

As an example, my line syncs at 5728kbps and has a BRAS limit of
5000kbps and throughput (I do a daily speedtest at around 07:00) is
nearly always 4500-4600kbps
--
Ian

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