DSL Dowload Speed - 6 kb per sec!

Mredmond

Hi,

I had broadband installed today, and have since achieved the magnificent speed of 6k per sec, and just every now and then it reaches the dizzy heights of 16k per sec.

You can imagine how unimpressed I am, especially considering my ISDN was working a treat. I only switched to keep my Internet costs down, and to increase the download speed.

Has anyone else any experience of this crap service? The Eircom customer care people were incredibly rude - where next?

Thanks,

MRed

Agent Smith

your beating my dial-up, so be happy!


get on to eircom again and request to speak to the guy who insalled it

DMC

Where are you dowloading from, mredmond?

There is an official eircom speed test, check here Tell us what you get.

Rabies

that is the biggest word doc i have ever seen to contain crap

image: 65k

Mossy Monk

is there a reason for that test to be so fast. it is blistering for dialup and had no effect on lag or internet browsing. i normally download at 1.4kb/s but the attachment shows something a bit different

celticfc

Originally posted by Mossy Monk
is there a reason for that test to be so fast. it is blistering for dialup and had no effect on lag or internet browsing. i normally download at 1.4kb/s but the attachment shows something a bit different

Yeah, theres definitly summit up with that, I was d/l'ing it @ 55-60kb/s. :eek: (Usually d/l @ 6-7kb/s)

watty

I get 4.8Mb/s on that!!! Actually it is too small a file and IE starts downloading in background to cache, while you decide where to save, and you are measuring (mostly) the speed of your own IE cache!

If there is an error in DNS, Gateway, Subnet or "ADSL /Ethernet box" settings you will get slow speeds.

Also USB to ADSL are a bad idea.

Mredmond

Originally posted by DMC:

There is an official eircom speed test, check here Tell us what you get.

The 6K per sec was actually measured using that official test, DMC. I have since discovered that I needed to increase the setting on my "recieve buffers" (W98) from 2000 ish to 32000 ish. Worked a dream, I'm now downloading 1MB in 10-20 seconds.
Thanks for the help anyway.


Originally posted by LurkingIcon:

Also USB to ADSL are a bad idea.

Why so - would performance be better over Ethernet?

DMC

Kewl, nice one.

I presume you have the Eircom Netopia modem, nice device as it has dual USB/ Ethernet inputs. I have one too and its great (bought it off a lad in Navan!)

I prefer Ethernet over USB for these reasons:

• No drivers for new devices
• Doesn't drain power
• Less liable for breakdown
• Ethernet to device speed upto 100mbps (on a 10/100 card)
• USB max is 8-12 mbps
• Frees up for devices that only work on USB (camera, Psion Wavefinder etc)
• Power drain
• Power
• and did I mention power?

Mutant_Fruit

Also USB devices use up CPU cycles. And if your CPU is maxing out (due to video encoding/gaming etc) its possible that you'll lose your internet connection temporarily.