[Gloucs] ADSL speeds

[Richard Mellersh]

I have changed isp and had the same thing - the Techie told me that the
`system' would `learn' the maximum speed.  Needless to say I was skeptical
but it was correct after about 12 days its is up to about 5.9M.
Richard

On 10 March 2010 22:36, John Kilgour <wj.kilgour at btopenworld.com> wrote:

> Before I went away for a few days I regularly got a download speed of 5
> Mbps
> and an upload speed of  440 Kbps. Real download speeds of Linux updates etc
> were around  400 KBps. At 2 Km from the exchange I found this very
> satisfactory.  While I was away I switched everything off.
>
> On my return I switched everything on and got download speeds of ~ 40KBps
> i.e.
> about 10% of previously. A speed test using www.broadband.co.uk confirmed
> these numbers - download 400Kbps - upload 38Kbps.
>
> The status page on the ADSL router (Linksys WAG160N) says downstream rate
> 5472
> Kbps and upstream rate 448 Kbps. This reflects the pre holiday performance.
>
> Another computer in the house using XP gives the same results. Has anyone
> any
> ideas? Thanks in advance.
>
> John Kilgour
>
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