[WXC/VFX] Weird DSL Issues and Speed

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exportgoldman

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#15672 2-Sep-2007 20:45

Hello Everyone,

My home connection is having some weird issues. Here is my ADSL stats

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 5664 kbps 96 kbps
Line Attenuation 44 db 12.5 db
Noise Margin 13 db 13 db

My speeds are 606KB from LA and 1200KB to Auckland. I live in Parnell.

My speeds have always been crap here, which is weird because I live in on of the richer suburbs in the central CBD of Auckland.

Whats esp weird is my upstream is only 77 and my connect is only 96...

Tyler - Parnell Geek - iPhone 3G - Lenovo X301 - Kaseya - Great Western Steak House, these are some of my favourite things.

richms

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#84978 3-Sep-2007 00:29

I saw something similar, in that the upstream was being hammered but the downstream was largly uneffected when there was some weird cable fault on my line that also broke the phone, but not dsl at all.

Richard rich.ms

exportgoldman

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#85115 3-Sep-2007 16:58

Phoned the helpdesk, 3 rings and I was speaking to a technical support person, and at 5PM peek helpdesk time. Crazy!

They want me to do the standard isolation test, unplug everything bar my router and see if my sync upstream improves.

I'll do that tonight and see how we go.

Tyler - Parnell Geek - iPhone 3G - Lenovo X301 - Kaseya - Great Western Steak House, these are some of my favourite things.

bjhoogs

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#85150 3-Sep-2007 20:10

I had the same thing a few weeks ago. I'm on river (full speed down 128 up) and my upstream connection speed dropped to 64k, was getting about 44 from speed test, downstream was not affected, it sorted itself out after about a day. Phone was not affected

exportgoldman

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#85202 3-Sep-2007 23:07

Interesting... Very interesting.

ADSL Firmware Version 6.01.00.12

Modem Status Connected

DownStream Connection Speed 6208 kbps

UpStream Connection Speed 160 kbps

My upsteam speed is back to normal, since I upgraded my firmware. Netgear have two firmwares for their DG834G router, one for the UK, and the other for the rest of the world. The .27 (rest of the world) firmware has ADSL Firmware v5 in it, the UK firmware (which I am running) and which fixed the problem is V6 (as above.)

I recall reading about the UK firmware somewhere...

Shame my DL speeds are still at around 1200... (of a connect speed of 6200.)

Could it possibly be that Telecom put a Conkin in Parnell???

(Moderator edit (brian) Added <img> tag to image as we don't use BB code)

Tyler - Parnell Geek - iPhone 3G - Lenovo X301 - Kaseya - Great Western Steak House, these are some of my favourite things.

exportgoldman

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#87072 18-Sep-2007 19:02

Well I logged a fault with XNET which logged a fault with Telecom to do a line analysis for 24 hours.

It's weird, I'm connecting at 6.6MBits, but only getting 1100 to the XNET speed test, and 300kbits to Australia and the USA.

Swapped out routers, unplugged my phone and my ADSL filter.

The XNET guy seems to think 1100kbps isn't too bad a speed.

I upgraded my connection to flood in case that helps.

Tyler - Parnell Geek - iPhone 3G - Lenovo X301 - Kaseya - Great Western Steak House, these are some of my favourite things.

exportgoldman

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#87887 24-Sep-2007 13:15

OK Looks like www.speedtest.net was broken! So all my speedtests were cripped, so my connection isn't as bad as I thought.

WorldExchange looks like they tweaked my connection and it's running much better :-) up to 6MBits which is fantastic. I honestly thought I wouldn't get a connection this fast, as I've only seen two other connections as fast, and ones in the CBD of town, and the other off the ponsonby exchange which has been unbundled.

I also upgraded to the FS/FS plan which seems to have helped a lot as well.

Thanks WorldExchange, back to watching Streaming Television through my internet connection to my HDTV iMac 24"

I have found a huge bunch of legal TV stations on the web

Tyler - Parnell Geek - iPhone 3G - Lenovo X301 - Kaseya - Great Western Steak House, these are some of my favourite things.