- Are these Plusnet Broadband figures ok
- Posted by Steven Campbell on May 5th, 2004
Could someone tell me if these figures are ok?
I have just been connected to Plusnet 1Mb and on their own speed test it
states these figures are slower than expected. Adslguide gives figures of
Downstream 790 Kbps (98.8 KB/sec)
Upstream 246 Kbps (30.8 KB/sec)
I'm using a Draytek 2600 and it states
SNR Margin 41.5
Loop att 16.5
I stay less than 0.5km from the exchange if that matters.
The Draytek only seems to light up to the 2nd signal strength indicator and
occasionally flickers the 3rd.
Are the readings a bit short of what they potentially should be? If so is
there anything I can do to try and up them? I tried the networkoptimizer on
the Plusnet site but it never made any difference.
cheers
Steven.
- Posted by PlusNet Support on May 5th, 2004
On Wed, 5 May 2004 01:03:10 +0100, "Steven Campbell"
<ng@pTHREEasa.co.uk> wrote:
Hi there,
I would say that these are not worryingly low, but I would expect
higher. I can see that you have used the networkoptimizer, I would
have suggested tweaking. If you are using a router, have you adjusted
the MTU/RWIN on that as well? If you go to the following URL and
follow the instructions, paste the results into a ticket and we can
certainly investigate further to see if there is any issues on your
line:
http://cgi.support.plus.com/faultreporting/
kind regards
Luke
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- Posted by Mark Ford on May 5th, 2004
"Steven Campbell" <ng@pTHREEasa.co.uk> wrote in message
news:sjWlc.39848$Y%6.5390574@wards.force9.net...
I'm on 512K so I can't say what figures you should expect, but they do look
too low to me.
Make sure the MTU limit you are setting on your PC isn't exceeding that set
on the router. On the 2600 the MTU setting can be displayed or changed from
the telnet interface using either wan mtu ? or wan mtu <new value>.
There does seem to be a 'feature' on the 2600 though that means that the mtu
setting doesn't always stick if it's set too large, and reverts back to 1442
after several hours/days. The largest value I've ever got to stick reliably
was 1458.
I presume the tweaking software you are using is also allowing you to up the
receive window (RWIN) value?
Mark.
