BT Broadband 8Mb - New Connection

Hi all,

Ive just had a new BT DSL installation (2 days old), and my router and
bband modem are both reporting a link speed of 8Mb (8128 to be
precise), which is all fine and dandy.

However, this is not being reflected in the download speeds Im getting,
and any speed tests I run (ive tried the usual, adslguide.org etc) give
a link speed of around 1800kbs. This was the speed I used to get on a
2mb line.

If the link speed is being reported correctly by the hardware, does
this mean its my problem?

Cheers.

On Tue, 9 May 2006 19:21:35 UTC, "Nick Weekes"
<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> However, this is not being reflected in the download speeds Im getting,
> and any speed tests I run (ive tried the usual, adslguide.org etc) give
> a link speed of around 1800kbs. This was the speed I used to get on a
> 2mb line.

It's always worth reading the newsgroup first...this has been discussed
quite a lot.

Take a look here:

http://aaisp.net/maxmagic.html


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In message <(E-Mail Removed) .com>, Nick
Weekes <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>Hi all,
>
>Ive just had a new BT DSL installation (2 days old), and my router and
>bband modem are both reporting a link speed of 8Mb (8128 to be
>precise), which is all fine and dandy.
>
>However, this is not being reflected in the download speeds Im getting,
>and any speed tests I run (ive tried the usual, adslguide.org etc) give
>a link speed of around 1800kbs. This was the speed I used to get on a
>2mb line.
>
>If the link speed is being reported correctly by the hardware, does
>this mean its my problem?
>

RTFNG
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"pete devlin" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> In message <(E-Mail Removed) .com>,
> Nick Weekes <(E-Mail Removed)> writes
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Ive just had a new BT DSL installation (2 days old), and my router
>>and
>>bband modem are both reporting a link speed of 8Mb (8128 to be
>>precise), which is all fine and dandy.
>>
>>However, this is not being reflected in the download speeds Im
>>getting,
>>and any speed tests I run (ive tried the usual, adslguide.org etc)
>>give
>>a link speed of around 1800kbs. This was the speed I used to get on
>>a
>>2mb line.
>>
>>If the link speed is being reported correctly by the hardware, does
>>this mean its my problem?
>>
>
> RTFNG

Now you're going to have to tell him what that means.

Personally I'm thinking about filtering out any & all headers with
ADSLMax & similar as it has been over done to death over the last few
weeks it's been available & it's the same thing over & over again.
Funny things is, I've only met up with one such circuit in the wild in
the same time frame. O well back to poles & holes ;-)