Technical Question

Braytek

I'm currently living pretty far from an exchange but am getting 7mb. The local town has cabinets all around but I live too far, about 1.5km I think, from the closest one give or take a bit. I know I am too far to benefit from a cabinet but my question is this, will us outside ever get any more than 7mb. Like before let’s say it wasn't an ADSL 2+ exchange will we would only get 1mb out here where the town would get 8. Now that the exchange is ADSL 2+ they have 24mb and we have 7mb. But with cabinets you need to be within a distance to get it and we are just too far out.

TL:DR

Will people who can only get up to say 8-10mb get any more in the future, is there new technology, will they keep putting cabinets out or do will we need to go for a wireless solution like radio broadband to avail of future faster speeds

ED E

Cabinets mean nothing with ADSL/2+. The equipment is in the exchange and its that distance that is the limiting factor. If you get fibre then the cabinet matters(as the equipment is now there for broadband).

Login to your modem and read off the downstream attenuation. Then put that into the DSL calculator on Kitz.com. That'll tell you the perfect world max speed of the line. real world you'll get 10-15% less than that.

amdaley28

ED E wrote: »

Cabinets mean nothing with ADSL/2+. The equipment is in the exchange and its that distance that is the limiting factor. If you get fibre then the cabinet matters(as the equipment is now there for broadband).

Login to your modem and read off the downstream attenuation. Then put that into the DSL calculator on Kitz.com. That'll tell you the perfect world max speed of the line. real world you'll get 10-15% less than that.

Hi Ed E.
Thank you for that link & its .co.uk not .com in case anyone goes looking.

I put in my downstream attenuation 19.5 dB which puts me about 1.4km from my exchange. The calculator rounds it down to 19 dB.
The dslMAX (20CN) on the calculator says 8128 kbps.
What does that mean in relation to the speed I should be getting from SKY at present as I really don't understand the figures ?

ED E

amdaley28 wrote: »

Hi Ed E.
Thank you for that link & its .co.uk not .com in case anyone goes looking.

I put in my downstream attenuation 19.5 dB which puts me about 1.4km from my exchange. The calculator rounds it down to 19 dB.
The dslMAX (20CN) on the calculator says 8128 kbps.
What does that mean in relation to the speed I should be getting from SKY at present as I really don't understand the figures ?

adsl2+(LLU) is the result you want, giving 20Mbps. Thats the max your line will do, so if the exchange has been upgraded you should get at least 15Mb real world speeds.

If they're limiting you to 7 right now(does the package say 7?) then you may need to wait for a "Next Generation" upgrade.

amdaley28

ED E wrote: »

adsl2+(LLU) is the result you want, giving 20Mbps. Thats the max your line will do, so if the exchange has been upgraded you should get at least 15Mb real world speeds.

If they're limiting you to 7 right now(does the package say 7?) then you may need to wait for a "Next Generation" upgrade.

Thanks for that Ed E.
I'm getting 3Mb from Sky. They said that's the max my line can take even though when they were starting broadband here they said they would give whatever a line could take ?
According to speedtest I'm getting 2.63. It never varies up or down day or night.
Spoke to an Eircom engineer in town one day who said I should be getting a lot more. He also said the speed is regulated from Dublin ?

ED E

Ok. So you to the exchange is fine for 15-20Mb but the backhaul to the exchange isnt fit to give customers that. So they limit it to 3Mb per line.

Whenever that exchange is upgraded with a proper fibre feed then you'll get great speeds. No way to know when that'd be though.