Hi folks. Long time lurker, first time poster. Be gentle.
I signed up to the Vodafone Ultimate plan several months ago, and have generally been satisfied with the service, but I always felt that the speed (sync rate) was lacking. My line rate is currently 2900Kbps down and 900Kbps up. I've lived closer to the exchange in my area and achieved a line rate of between 3000-4000Kbps. I'm now roughly 1.5km from the exchange. I've noticed that many other users have reported speeds of up to 20,000Kbps (and higher), and I wanted to gauge if my experience is typical, or if I should do some investigating. There [apparently is not] a local cabinet installed in my area, which suggests I should be getting a much better speed than I am. Here is a simple cut 'n paste from the modem:
Line Mode ADSL2+ Line State Show Time
Line Power State L0 Line Up Time 00:00:34:46
Line Coding Trellis On Line Up Count 1
Statistics Downstream Upstream
Line Rate 2895 Kbps 909 Kbps
Attainable Line Rate 4412 Kbps 909 Kbps
Noise Margin 12.0 dB 12.3 dB
Line Attenuation 47.0 dB 23.1 dB
Output Power 18.5 dBm 12.4 dBm
MSGC (number of bytes in overhead channel message) 59 16
B (number of bytes in Mux Data Frame) 90 27
M (number of Mux Data Frames in FEC Data Frame) 1 1
T (Mux Data Frames over sync bytes) 1 3
R (number of check bytes in FEC Data Frame) 0 0
S (ratio of FEC over PMD Data Frame length) 0.9945 0.9739
L (number of bits in PMD Data Frame) 732 230
D (interleave depth) 1 1
Delay 0 0
Super Frames 129089 129087
Super Frame Errors 2 6166
RS Words 0 0
RS Correctable Errors 0 0
RS Uncorrectable Errors 0 0
HEC Errors 1 12318
OCD Errors 0 0
LCD Errors 0 0
Total Cells 14248605 1036586979
Data Cells 327499 157731758
Bit Errors 0 1112142
Total ES 2 1
Total SES 0 0
Total UAS 31 0
I've recently requested that interleaving be turned off, but I'm sure that isn't causing a slow line rate. In fact, it's actually increased since I had it turned off, though I'm sure for unrelated reasons.
I live in the Auckland, Torbay/Long Bay area. I'm not sure what the decorum or sensibility is on posting addresses, so I'll leave out the telecomwholesale.co.nz link for now, unless you need that to help diagnose the possible issue. Is it possible I'm not connected to the cabinet? Is the cabinet causing interference? Any advice much appreciated.
EDIT: It just oocurred to me to paste a speedtest.net link.
Cheers
Gareth