ADSL2+ Upgrade

[Tim Procter]

Amazing I have lived in the sticks all my life with a dismal and next to useless ADSL connection speed and obviously had to put up with it.:(

Yesterday I received an email stating my exchange had been upgraded bla bla bla and I now could be upgraded to ADSL2+ "Up to 16Mbps"

Rebooted my router this morning and got double the upload speed and double the download speed.:)

Not good by many of your standards in the cities and certainly not 16Mbps by a long way but a large improvement on what I had.:party:

I presume my profile will get better when it settles down over a period of time.

[IMG]http://www.zen118613.zen.co.uk/ADSL-upgrade.jpg[/IMG]

[Jamin_00]

A big improvement then Tim. Happy days

[Mark_T]

[QUOTE=busterboy;937693]I presume my profile will get better when it settles down over a period of time.[/QUOTE]

Not necessarily, take care not to reboot your router frequently during the first week or so as that can be interpreted as an unstable connection which can result in your profile being reduced.

The longer it stays connected without problems the better.

[Tim Procter]

Cheers Mark, info taken on board.:)

[bikerflier]

Good news to hear you have a better service. Nothing more frustrating than sitting there waiting.

I don't understand this though:-


[QUOTE=Mark_T;937699]Not necessarily, take care not to reboot your router frequently during the first week or so as that can be interpreted as an unstable connection which can result in your profile being reduced.

The longer it stays connected without problems the better.[/QUOTE]

A TalkTalk engineer came yesterday and he said that doesn't work, it won't change, the profile is fixed.
Is he conning me or are TalkTalk locking this function out so it can't get faster and use more of their service.


Should I buy my own router.

One thing that I improved this week was fitting Powerline adaptors and taking out wifi.

I don't get the 'waiting for server' or 'waiting for adserver' messages I used to get on here and lots of other sites.
The download speed is no quicker in 'Speedtest.net' but there are no waits between screens anymore so effectively speeding up my surfing.

[Tim Procter]

[QUOTE=bikerflier;937704]A TalkTalk engineer came yesterday and he said that doesn't work, it won't change, the profile is fixed.
Is he conning me or are TalkTalk locking this function out so it can't get faster and use more of their service.[/QUOTE]

Does TalkTalk throttle your line (service) due to over usage.?

[bikerflier]

[QUOTE=busterboy;937706]Does TalkTalk throttle your line (service) due to over usage.?[/QUOTE]

Not sure what you mean.

I use between 10 and 30 gigabytes download a month according to their website.

They do slow it down for everyone at busy times but that is in their policy statement.

Everytime I use anyone's line speed test when I search for a new supplier and they say they will test my line, they all say I will get between 2 and 7 mbps.
I get around 6-6.5 everytime I use Speedtest.

Just wondering why the engineer said the profile won't change with time.
Every other supplier has always said disconnect router for 24 hours and it will then adjust profile as it sees what best speed it can get, but TalkTalk engineer said that doesn't happen. He can change it in my router but not possible for me to do or for router to do automatically.

That's why I wonder if I should buy my own router and see if I get an improvement.

Those powerline adaptors are the best thing I have done though, saw an immediate improvement in the delays caused by 'waiting for server' messages.

[pgkevet]

I do the hate 'up to speed' statements. When I was in civilisation it never reached the potential speeds.
Here in even further stix then the OP I ocassionally hit 3Mb <sigh> but since we can't get radio or cell phone signals and digital terrestrial only picks up a few channels then generally we use that connection a[I][B] lot[/B][/I]. there was an offer (not cheap) for one of the new initiatives to get faster broadband into rural areas.. about 20Mb but even at the highest subscription it was 40Gb per month or pay even sillier for each extra GB. theoption of paying for 2 services did occur to me..but then we're not disciplined enough to monitor it properly..and money has to be allowed for.

[LipolyGone]

I've just got btinfinity 2 installed & have gone from 16mbits per second to 80mb per second & guess what? heliadicts is as slow to load as its always been along with pretyuch aall the Internet I suffer as much lag playing Warcraft as I've ever done.

[scallybert]

[QUOTE=busterboy;937693][...]Not good by many of your standards in the cities and certainly not 16Mbps by a long way but a large improvement on what I had.:party:

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[IMG]http://www.zen118613.zen.co.uk/ADSL-upgrade.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]

You're getting about 1MB/s (megabyte per second) sustained download. That's pretty close to 10Mb/s (10 megabits per second) [A byte is 8 bits plus overhead; 10 bits is a fair approximation, in terms of what's actually going down the wire.]

What you're seeing is certainly in the same ballpark as 16Mb/s .

[scallybert]

[QUOTE=rcslopesurfer;937777]I've just got btinfinity 2 installed & have gone from 16mbits per second to 80mb per second & guess what? heliadicts is as slow to load as its always been along with pretyuch aall the Internet I suffer as much lag playing Warcraft as I've ever done.[/QUOTE]
You're only as fast as the slowest bottleneck...

[Milamber]

My ADSL2+ went live just over 2 weeks ago and my speed, on BT speedchecker, is around 17 Mb/s. I have a download speed, for files, averaging always over 2.2 MBytes/Second. Well pleased with this as I am also in a small village in Somerset, but only 280ish yards from the exchange. I also have been moved to "No download Limit" to permit me to d/l HD content from the web - and all beacause I asked for MAC code - been with my current provider for around 4 years and will stay with them for the forseeable [until fibre] future. A Happy Chappy.