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Originally Posted by Florence
I know they keep saying there is enough to manage 10mb but the faster you go the more the network needs to be spot on and unfortunately the bean counters at NTL seem to think selling staff is more important than engineers that keep things ticking over.
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Wrong, the 'speed' getting chucked down the network is the same whether users are on 128k or 10Mbit, as you all share a part of a larger channel, and it's that channel and its'
modulation that set how high a quality the network needs to be.
You get a slice of that larger channel however your modem is constantly receiving data from el uBR.
Sounds more like bandwidth congestion (clue being slowdowns at peak times), which isn't really an issue to do with local network maintenance more one for capacity planning. Some dodgy signal issues there potentially, with regard to connection stability, these can be checked out through the normal channels, and logs from modems will tell the story.
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Fri, 02 Dec 2005 20:49:42 GMT
1st 128K took 735 ms = 178329 Bytes/sec = approx 1484 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 390 ms = 336082 Bytes/sec = approx 2796 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 563 ms = 232810 Bytes/sec = approx 1937 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 547 ms = 239620 Bytes/sec = approx 1994 kbits/sec
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RDHW's test is
not supposed to be a reliable test, note your 2nd test's speeds are impossible, and averaging them all out gives you a quite acceptable speed across all 4 tests.
Use ADSLGuide or another speedtest but not RDHW's it was designed to be a basic guesstimator, its' sample sizes are too small for the higher speed services really, and can be thrown wildly out of kilter too easily.