ADSL Attainable Rate and Rate

[timoet]

Hi all,
I was wondering about my line rates and what i should do, my router shows that i only have 4mbps but it says the attainanble is 10mbps, i have tried with 10mb accounts and it still downloads at only around the 4mbps (400-450KB/s) mark.

Anyone else experienced this perhaps? Is this just an exchange thing or is 10848kbps the new 4096?

Below is the stuff from my adsl line so maybe someone can see if its just me being crazy:

Line Rate - Upstream (Kbps): 512
Line Rate - Downstream (Kbps): 4096

Date/Time: Mon Feb 24 08:45:25 2014


Downstream Upstream
SNR Margin (dB): 25.0 13.0
Attenuation (dB): 12.0 6.0
Output Power (dBm): 4.3 5.3
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 10848 1048
Rate (Kbps): 4096 512
K (number of bytes in DMT frame): 129 17
R (number of check bytes in RS code word): 0 0
S (RS code word size in DMT frame): 1 1
D (interleaver depth): 1 1
Delay (msec): 0 0

many thanks!

 

[Rickster]

Try switch your ADSL mode to ADSL2 and see if there is a difference. Try not to switch to ADSL2+

 

[Nerfherder]

Try switch your ADSL mode to ADSL2 and see if there is a difference. Try not to switch to ADSL2+

Why not ADSL2+ ?

 

[Rickster]

Why not ADSL2+ ?

Our ADSL is too slow for ADSL2+. ADSL2+ is for 21Mb/s+ lines, so if you put it on ADSL2+ it will tank your SNR for no reason.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

You'r only upping your data account to 10meg, line is still syncing at 4meg so you'll only get 4 meg speeds.

 

[MartyMarts]

What ScottulusMaximus said...

 

[The_Ogre]

My router states my attainable rate is 14Mbps. That doesn't mean that's what I will get.

It simply means, based on your line statistics, that is the maximum attainable rate that your line can theoretically handle.

 

[timoet]

Aaaa i see, thanks for making sense of that everyone! So basically i have to wait for the exchange to be upgraded, I thought i was crazy when i saw the little box from telkom had 10mbps written on it and i couldnt get it to work!

 

[MartyMarts]

...or just call Telkom (10210) and ask them to upgrade your line to 10Mbps? If your exchange is 10Mbps capable that is... There is a website you can check but it's not that reliable I've heard.

 

[EchoZA]

and stay away from Axxess for you line management#@$#%@@!!!!!

 

[BeerIsNotGood...]

Our ADSL is too slow for ADSL2+. ADSL2+ is for 21Mb/s+ lines, so if you put it on ADSL2+ it will tank your SNR for no reason.

is this by any chance still relevant ?

 

[Johnatan56]

is this by any chance still relevant ?

No, that's utter BS. ADSL2+ just allows you to use more higher frequency, same speed falloff and will match ADSL at higher distances (about 6Mbps mark so about the 4km/52dB attenuation mark). Same with VDSL actually, but VDSL's modulation is better so it will in near all cases match/exceed ADSL2+ in speed and stability.

Original poster is confusing the ISP max speed vs the line max speed, the lowers maximum speed will be your bottleneck.

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and stay away from Axxess for you line management#@$#%@@!!!!!

any reason you necroed a 4 year old thread?