384k DSL Connection Speed.

LabAnimal

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I've just upped my Connection speed from 192 to 384.

On 192k, my modem said i was connected on 384k down, and 192k up.

But now on my new 384k account. it says 512k down, and 256k up. Is this correct ?

isnt it supposed to be 384k up and 768k down ???
 
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How long did it take for Telcon to upgrade your speed, as a matter of interest?
 
2 days Doc_msk


Another question. If 384k is 512k down & 256k up, What is the 512k & the 1meg line line rated at ?
 
512 connects at 640/384, and if your 2 days applies to me as well, I'll know what the 1meg lines connect at tomorrow ;)

edit: think it's 1152/384 but I could be wrong
 
well then all this is even stranger. the only thing that tells me that my 192k line was a 192k was the UP speed. i thought that was my down speed.!!! so then if this carries over to 384, and that is suppsed to be my up speed, shy am i getting 256? doesnt sound right!.
 
LabAnimal said:
well then all this is even stranger. the only thing that tells me that my 192k line was a 192k was the UP speed. i thought that was my down speed.!!! so then if this carries over to 384, and that is suppsed to be my up speed, shy am i getting 256? doesnt sound right!.
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Your bandwidth is managed by the router and account profile on the system and not your physical connection speed to the exchange.
 
tibby.dude said:
Your bandwidth is managed by the router and account profile on the system and not your physical connection speed to the exchange.
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is that so?..

Xarog said:
Actually, when the telkom techs came to test our line, they said they normally set it a little above the purchased speed. I.E. 256k (32kb/s) for a 192kb line.

The adsl technology that they use supports 2mbits per second, and then they scaled it down. Any other speed caps are done with packet shaping, and don't actually have anything to do with the line itself. That's also why the speeds change from day to day; telkom changes it's packet shaping policies - though how or why they do it as they do is a mystery. :P
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so who's phibbing?
 
That info your are getting from your router is not really corect. It was just coincidence that your upload speed was rated at 192kb. You 384kb upload speed should actually be 128kb, but it is inflated simply becasue it can actually go faster than 128kb and 256 is probably the closest to what it is really performing at.
 
2 Days!! Amazing... I asked for my line to be upgraded on 12 April, and still no upgrade!
 
mmmmm.... so many answers, which creates just more questions - it all sounds fishy to me... There is still absolutely NOTHING that tells me that i'm getting the 384k that i've applied for. In actual fact - it still feels exactly the same. I dont feel any speed difference on the net between the 192k and the 384k.
 
Your 192 line speed should have been set up as 256/128.

384 lines are set up as 512/256

512 lines are set up as 640/384

and I think that 1024 lines are set up as 2048/512...
 
PostmanPot said:
is that so?..
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Not yours ... theirs :).

It is rather odd that Telkom would limit the line connection speed within 128K of the package that you signed up with ... it does not make sense to me unless their copper network can't handle the fact that everybody running at full tilt at 2MBps and them only using soft capping as a mechanism to ensure that people only got what they paid for.
 
Tibby it doesn't make sense to me either why they doing this but I don't think it has anything to do with the copper network. The only copper is from the clients premesis to their DSLAM in the exchange which is maximum 5km away. There's no other traffic on this copper line since it runs directly from the premesis to the exchange. From there it runs off a digital line hence the term DSL. It seems to me that the only way to throttle people would be to implement software on the DSLAM itself, which may explain why everybody is capped at exactly 160kbps maximum on a 192 line. Otherwise if it weren't for some kind of software implementation people would have variable speeds, some getting 192kbps and some not.
 
Highflyer_GP said:
Tibby it doesn't make sense to me either why they doing this but I don't think it has anything to do with the copper network.
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The overhead line that serves our street is just one big fat cable running from up the street right down to a junction box in somebody's yard at the bottom of the street with individual connection points for each house.

I sure that there are issues of crosstalk that they are trying to deal with at these high linespeeds because of generally poor isolation of the copper pairs ???.

Why do you need to do conformance testing again when switching to a higher linespeed as some folks mentioned here ???.
 
Well, 1 day for my upgrade :)

384 Kbps Upstream, 1152 Kbps Downstream
 
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