FW: [Malvern] [OT] ADSL speeds

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Gang

Sorry, been rather quiet of late just had the fun of moving house and
getting Broadband total up and running - swish!

Some added points to this discussion.

As Andy M says, once your connection hits the local exchange / serving point
you will run into contention issues, which will vary between 1:50 and 1:10
depending on what ISP and Broadband platform you are connected to - there
are currently 4 - and of course how many people are on line at any one time.

As far as Wi-Fi goes, things are going to get rather interesting over the
next couple of years.  Hot spots for public access ie Open Zone are in the
process of being opened out to cover entire metropolitan areas - ie city
centres.

This means that if you are in either Bristol, Brum, Cardiff, Manchester
eithre Glasgow or Edinburgh and the City of Westminster in the smoke, you
can get as good a connection through Wi-fi as you can using a mobile
(coverage not speed)!

Now as Andy says there are limited bandwidths, and the whole idea of the
MAN-Fi is that you can walk along the street using your laptop / PDA and not
loose a connection.  Me sees a problem with us humble home users either
having to subscribe to MAN-Fi or have wired connections.  but why would you
want to walk along the street using your laptop to blog or some such ....

Geoff - your ISP, BT Openworld, uses POP3.
{Useless fact:  POP = Post Office Protocol }

Rik, nought wrong with Bletchly Park - spent 8 weeks there on a residential
training course in the mid 90s.  Food is OK but it was a long walk to the
nearest pub that wasn't full of teeny-boppers.  Things change though!

Any way, I'm back so watch out for more off the wall commentary and useless
facts!

Ian + Otis

-----Original Message-----
From: malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:malvern-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Andy Morris
Sent: 20 July 2006 16:11
To: mail at bealers.com
Cc: malvern at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [Malvern] [OT] ADSL speeds


Doesn't surprise me. I have WiFi problems here, now, because there at
least 5 units operating within reception distance, and with only 13
channels to choose from, and with a 2-channel separation to maintain, to
avoid co-channel interference, there is occasionally a "channel-race"
which takes all of them out.

This can only get worse.


Andy

Darren Beale wrote:
> On 7/18/06, Andy Morris <zaglabod at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>> Your reported speed is only the maximum possible, it assumes that the
>> network beyond can deliver packets to use that maximum. In my
>> experience, this is rarely the case, except in the quiet hours, but
>> "quiet" depends on where in the world you are downloading from.
>
> Turns out that WiFi was the culprit even though it was reporting 80%
> signal between the bridge and AP downstairs. I've just ran an
> extension to the phone point through the windows and now have the
> router physically connected here.
>
> I'm now seeing consistent speeds of 5+ Mbps as opposed to a connection
> that was dropping out every 10 mins.
>
> Cheers
>
> D
>

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