I gave CS a call this morning as had my bill in today which said "10Mb Broadband" on it...!
According to CS I
am on 10Mb so I called Tech Support. They confirmed that I am on 10Mb and said everything their end was fine.......
.....so I now turn to the wonderful people here to see if you can advise me on how to at least squeeze 5Mb out of this shiny Samsung!!!!!
Here's the setup:
Samsung STB at 10Mb
into a Linksys BEFSR41 v2 router on firmware 1.46.02
into a PC running XP Pro
Speed tests:
Robin's site:
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:58:57 GMT
1st 128K took 231 ms = 567411 Bytes/sec = approx 4721 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 180 ms = 728178 Bytes/sec = approx 6058 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 170 ms = 771012 Bytes/sec = approx 6415 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 150 ms = 873813 Bytes/sec = approx 7270 kbits/sec
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:59:23 GMT
1st 128K took 190 ms = 689853 Bytes/sec = approx 5740 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 170 ms = 771012 Bytes/sec = approx 6415 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 3285 ms = 39900 Bytes/sec = approx 332 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 240 ms = 546133 Bytes/sec = approx 4544 kbits/sec
Wed, 28 Dec 2005 12:59:45 GMT
1st 128K took 121 ms = 1083240 Bytes/sec = approx 9013 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 3244 ms = 40404 Bytes/sec = approx 336 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 171 ms = 766503 Bytes/sec = approx 6377 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 3205 ms = 40896 Bytes/sec = approx 340 kbits/sec
As you can see these vary quite a bit!
ADSL Guide:
Direction
Actual Speed
True Speed (estimated)
Downstream 2392 Kbps (299.0 KB/sec) 2583 Kbps (inc. overheads) Upstream 482 Kbps (60.3 KB/sec) 520 Kbps (inc. overheads)
NDO:
On Wednesday, 28th December, 2005
Your bandwidth measured as:
2.31 Mbps
which means you can download at 295.89 KB/sec. from our servers.
DSL Zone uk:
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1.99 Mbps
which is around 254.45 KB/s [img]Download Failed (1)[/img] Your connection is performing very poorly (20% efficiency)
Dan Elwell's test: 2154kb/s
So, the upstream at 482 seems abut right but the d/l speed is nearer 2Mb than even the 3Mb I was on
before. Tests on the old 3Mb service always gave me around 2.96 as a result pretty much constantly.
I'm getting lower speeds on 10 than on 3...!!!!
Can anyone of you technical wizards see what could be wrong? Why its lower on the 10 service than my reliable 3 service?
Cheers in advance and HAPPY NEW YEAR to all at Cable Forum.
Lima