I'm living in a rural area and have only recently been able to get broadband. I am supposed to have a download speed of MB with eircom (DSL) but with when I checked on www.speedtest.net i have noticed that my max download speed is 1.MB at tops. When I rang Eircom they said that it is because of the quality of the line and that's the most I will be getting until it's upgraded. They refused to tell me when or how it's upgraded. Do they mean all the Phone lines have to be replaced (which I can never see happening) or is it an internal thing. Can anybody shed any light on this for me?
Broadband speed not at its full potential
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Re: Broadband speed not at it's full potential
Broadband speed depends on a number of factors including the quality of the line/infrastructure, how far you are from the exchange, contention ratio etc. Even if you are on, say, 3Mbps you will almost certainly not get that rate due to these and other (e.g. protocol overhead) factors. Sounds like your line is simple not capable of anything better than 1(?)mbps.
Broadband speed depends on a number of factors including the quality of the line/infrastructure, how far you are from the exchange, contention ratio etc. Even if you are on, say, 3Mbps you will almost certainly not get that rate due to these and other (e.g. protocol overhead) factors. Sounds like your line is simple not capable of anything better than 1(?)mbps.
Re: Broadband speed not at it's full potential
Thanks Clubman, I am approximately 4km from the local exchange (as the crow flies) which I would not consider excessive. Will it be the case that is all I will have or will it be in Eircom's interest to have it upgraded?
Re: Broadband speed not at it's full potential
Haven't eircom already told you?!
Nobody other than eircom can tell you if/when your line/exchange or whatever will be upgraded. I'd imagine that rural areas with presumably a low density of subscribers might be down the priority list for upgrades compared to areas with a higher density of subscribers.
dieseldave
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Log onto the router homepage 192.168.1.254 (if i remember correctly) and check the line attenuation, the higher the numbers in db the higher the noise on the line generally because of distance, have you filtered all other phone extensions, you have to remember when other people are online at the same time it's slows down like a traffic bottleneck, do you know what your contention rate is? you could try it late at night to see if it's better.
The line attenuation rate is 63/31 dB I have filtered all extensions. How do I find contention rate, Thanks
dieseldave
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That's fairly high line noise, what i was getting at with the contenion rate was if you were on a package with 48 to 1 , this would mean there is a potential of 48 people using the bandwidth(speed) at the same time, so at peak times it may be slower, another theory might be you've reached your download limit for that month and they're throttling you? (not really sure if this goes on any more)
Still cant find the contention rate but I do know that I never exceed the my download limit of 30GB, I have noticed that some times the speed is slightly faster at different times. I suppose I just have to be happy with what I have as it's a far cry from the dial up which I've had to endure for so long. Thanks for all your help....