only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

Hi,

sorry if this is a FAQ.

I switched to 10 meg 2 days ago,

adsl speet test tells me that I am only getting:

Downstream 4,748.7 Kbps ( = 4.6 Mbps )
Upstream 480.2 Kbps ( = 0.5 Mbps )


I realise that its up to 10meg but this still seems a bit slow. Is there anything I can do? how do I check that I have the right firmware for 10 meg? Do I need to do this?

At this rate I would be better off switching back to 2 meg and waiting for the upgrade.

please can anyone help me?

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

Do a search of the forum..........loads and loads of info

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

yea, looks like im not the only one!

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

Same here, sometimes i'm only getting 3mb with around a 100k upload! :td:

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

Is this the adslguide.org.uk test or a US based one? I get 8Mbps down on the UK one.

What modem do you have - you cannot do anything about firmware yourself but there are known issues with certain variants.

Its possible you can tweak (or remove ol dial-up tweaks) from your PC TCP/IP settings - see the analyzer on http://www.speedguide.net.

But note of caution I have found that optimizing for fastest downloads seems to slow some other things down - maybe if a packet is lost there is a longer wait before a replacement is requested?

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

i get about 7meg in cardiff but thats due to my old cmx modem
speeds wil lvary on where you perform tests and where you download from

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

try this speed test instead which is better:-

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/speed.php

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

thanks. i get just over 6meg from that test which is adequate.

I have a silver modem, a 200 i think,

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

I get around 6-7meg - never much higher.

Re: only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg
 

I can get 9+meg of adslguide test but I think their bandwidth does get saturated as its used by a ton of people and their site is slow also.