Vodafone ADSL upload speed seems very slow

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Flattie

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#148875 3-Jul-2014 16:38

Hi guys,

I'm new to the forum, but a lot of google searches brought me here in the past (and helped me quite a bit to find solutions). Nevertheless, right now I've got a problem I'm stuck with.

About 2 months ago I switched from a Telecom ADSL broadband plan to a Vodafone one (the Play plan, i.e. with 150 GB of data). On this new plan, my upload speed is just 0.24 Mbps, whereas I'm pretty sure that wth Telecom it was close to 1 Mbps before. Also, my download is 9 Mbps, so 0.24 Mbps seems really low.

I live in Auckland, or to be more precise, on the North Shore. Vodafone's address checker tells me that even VDSL would be available at my address, and Vodafone claims upload rates of 5-10 Mbit for VDSL. It also claims that VDSL gives up to 3 times the download speed of ADSL; if the same factor holds for upload, it would mean that ADSL theoretically should be able to give you an upload speed of 1.7-3.3 Mbps. Yet, I only get 0.24 Mbps, about 10% of that, in NZ's biggest city.

I called Vodafone today but they claimed that 0.24 Mbit would be the maximum possible on my connection. Nevertheless, Telecom could do about 4 times as much, and no work has been done in or around the house when I switched providers.

All in all, does that look fishy to you?

Cheers,

Flattie

PS: My download speed was at about 9 Mbps, but it went down when the Vodafone guys reset some connection when I called them today. It's supposed to go up again.

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#1079473 3-Jul-2014 16:38

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#1079487 3-Jul-2014 16:40

Hi,

There is most likely a fault present.

Whether WiFi or a line failure we dont have any info to go off. If you could PM me your account ill take a look and see whats a possible cause.
please do test your end with 2 devices, Both via Ethernet where possible and advise from there.
Will also be good if the Modem stats can be posted but i can see those if you send me the details.

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#1079516 3-Jul-2014 17:03

Hi,

Sync stats are 248 Up and 8976 Down.
Looks like a possible line fault. Please try different jack points and see if it differs..
Cheers

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#1079538 3-Jul-2014 17:35

Looks like a house wiring issue do you have a master filter installed and what modem are you using?

If you can move to VDSL as part of the install then a master filter will be installed

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#1079542 3-Jul-2014 17:41

slow upload on adsl is 9/10 times down to house wiring, chances are you have changed modems when switching, and the vodafone provided modem doesn't deal with your line as well as the old one.

ild say a master filter installation would be your most effective route.

the fact that VDSL is available further pushes the plausibility of this, ild also expect atlest 14mbit given your in a VDSL area (remembering its an estimation)..

disappointing that the vodafone CSR didn't want to look into anything, and claimed it to be as good as you will get unfortunately..

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#1079543 3-Jul-2014 17:49

hio77: slow upload on adsl is 9/10 times down to house wiring, chances are you have changed modems when switching, and the vodafone provided modem doesn't deal with your line as well as the old one.

ild say a master filter installation would be your most effective route.

the fact that VDSL is available further pushes the plausibility of this, ild also expect atlest 14mbit given your in a VDSL area (remembering its an estimation)..

disappointing that the vodafone CSR didn't want to look into anything, and claimed it to be as good as you will get unfortunately..

Forest Hill Exchange Area running on a cabinet.
Most likely house wiring issue.

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#1079577 3-Jul-2014 18:39

Guys, you are the greatest! It seems like the jacks are not equivalent, and neither the one in the living room (which I thought to be the "main" jack, if there was one) nor the one in the study is the main, but the jack in the master bedroom. The modem now claims 21.5 Mbps download and 0.9 Mbps upload; speedtest gives a ping of 28 ms, download of still around 5 Mbps and an upload of 0.77 Mbps. Since I did this being connected through Wi-fi, that's all good for me. Brilliant! Thank you very much for your help!

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#1079578 3-Jul-2014 18:42

If you can get 21.5Mbps on ADSL then your VDSL speed would be fantastic

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#1079579 3-Jul-2014 18:44

Flattie: Guys, you are the greatest! It seems like the jacks are not equivalent, and neither the one in the living room (which I thought to be the "main" jack, if there was one) nor the one in the study is the main, but the jack in the master bedroom. The modem now claims 21.5 Mbps download and 0.9 Mbps upload; speedtest gives a ping of 28 ms, download of still around 5 Mbps and an upload of 0.77 Mbps. Since I did this being connected through Wi-fi, that's all good for me. Brilliant! Thank you very much for your help!

wifi is likely to be your issue now.

your syncing at 21.5mbit, which is great! that likely puts you rather close to the cabinet, and you would probably see 60/10 on vdsl with ease (assuming an 17a profile)

might be worth looking at upgrading, also as part of your free installation chorus will do a master filter, which you could ask them to setup the jack in the living room for DSL. assuming there is no unrealistic reasoning for that not to be possible.

tinker with your wireless channels, you might be able to hit a better performing channel and see line speed.

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#1079580 3-Jul-2014 18:44

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