WA lets you manage your line?

[gregmcc]

Almost worth moving just for access to the tool!

[waroop]

this is awesome , i have the up to 10mps service :P

see if my line can do 8mps.

Edit:seems the max is 6mb for me

Is it a distance issue? Whats your attenuation?

You should make sure your line is as clean as possible (no big electrics are running near your copper - eg; washing machines). You could also try unplug your other phones, and restart/resync your router to see if it improves the SNR. I've seen bad micro-filters mess up the SNR.

PS. Thanks for the kudos and feedback everyone - keep it coming

[Tinuva]

this is awesome , i have the up to 10mps service :P

see if my line can do 8mps.

Edit:seems the max is 6mb for me

Sometimes Telkom limit the port speed on a DSLAM to 6mbit/sec if either you had too many port resets on your line in the past, or the DSLAM's uplink is actually close to be congested, so to prevent the 10mbit users to make it bad for everyone, they limit it to 6mbit.

[hereticangel]

Downstream speed
6144 kbps
Downstream SNR
21 dB

Upstream speed
635 kbps
Upstream SNR
15 dB

Max downstream speed
6144 kbps
Downstream attenuation
42 dB

Current Telkom profile speed
6144 kbps
Upstream attenuation
21.6 dB

think its because i am bit far away

[waroop]

Think its because i am bit far away

Damn. Yeah, based on that attenuation dB it looks like you're about 3.0 - 3.5km's from the exchange (Does that sound about right?)

The following guide (distance vs. attenuation vs speed) gives you an guestimate what you can achieve:
<1km should be 23-24Mbit (nice speed, but doesn’t it bug you that Telkom people walk through your bedroom?)
1.0km = 13.81dB = 23Mbit
1.5km = 20.7dB = 21Mbit
2.0km = 27.6dB = 18Mbit
2.5km = 34.5dB = 13Mbit
3.0km = 41.4dB = 8Mbit
3.5km = 48.3dB = 6Mbit
4.0km = 56dB = 4Mbit
4.5km = 62.1dB = 3Mbit
5.0km = 69dB = 2Mbit
>5.0km (you are pretty much poked — sorry for you)

http://www.naschenweng.info/2008/10/...d-attenuation/

[hereticangel]

yep its about right 6mb is fine, just wish i had a 8 meg when the steam summer sale is on :P

[gregmcc]

yep its about right 6mb is fine, just wish i had a 8 meg when the steam summer sale is on :P

Greedy! Think about us poor sods that can't even get 4Mbps

[Pr⊕phet]

WA lets you manage your line?

Must have been the big project 100% of the techs were working on instead of fixing the usage problem