Erik Christiansen wrote:
On 05.03.12 19:10, Allan Duncan wrote:
On 05/03/12 18:01, Erik Christiansen wrote:
Which exchange are you on? Belgrave, I believe, since I'm in Tecoma. Down our winding forest roads, that's a good bit further than the cocky flies - about 5 km by car. The margin of 27 dB is heaps, I'd hazard to guess, unless it's silently dropping the bitrate to maintain that "LOS Errors 0". I admit I haven't seen a BER reported, as we used to do on our PCM trunk equipment, back in the days of yore.
I have a daughter on Moreland and she is also having poor performance. Internode "converted" all the 1.5Mb/s ADSL-1 over to unthrottled some months ago, and the soeeds should have gone up to 8Mb/s (max). I now get around 7, with a downstream noise margin of 6.3 dB. My daughter gets 1.5, unchanged, but hasn't chased it up. It isn't the modem - I took a spare one I had checked on my line and it also ran at 1.5Mb/s. She has much better attenuation than I do. Is she also miles out from the exchange? The frequency response of the cable is far from flat, so high frequency attenuation suffers more rapidly from long lines, keeping us at lower speeds. If it's of interest I have an NBN / iPrimus fibre connection in Brunswick; for $43/month bundled with a $27 VOIP phone account; I get 5GB peak and 10GB off-peak at 25Mbps down and 5Mbps up; mostly speedtest seems to indicate I'm getting about 22Mbps down, with actual downloads anywhere from 12Mbps - 22Mbps; dropping to back to 120Kbps beyond the 5Gb cap.; price is not brilliant; but I don't have to worry about rain !
regards Rohan McLeod