only getting 4.7 meg on 10meg

rmg · 24-05-2006, 21:50

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?

Scrubbs · 24-05-2006, 21:56

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

rmg · 24-05-2006, 22:05

yea, looks like im not the only one!

25-05-2006, 09:09

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

mmm · 25-05-2006, 09:33

Quote:

Originally Posted by rmg

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?

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?

Richy99 · 25-05-2006, 10:27

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

etccarmageddon · 25-05-2006, 11:50

try this speed test instead which is better:-

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

rmg · 26-05-2006, 23:31

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

I have a silver modem, a 200 i think,

etccarmageddon · 26-05-2006, 23:41

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

Chrysalis · 27-05-2006, 05:14

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.