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GrammatonCleric said:
My modem allows me to customize my line stats. I can't remember what it's called and I can't check now because I'm not home.

It basically lets me configure my line if I see my SNR is too low. I can adjust this between -10 and 10; -10 being the max stability, but sacrifice the line's speed, 10 being best performance.

So, if I disable this option entirely, my line syncs at 20-megs. This setting is current set to -2, which bumps my SNR to around 8 db as opposed to between 5 - 6 db. So my line is syncing, if memory serves, at 1.8mbps ATM, but I'm only getting 1.4mbps out of it :(
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There are line overheads for ADSL on top of the normal packet/ethernet overheads.
You are looking at about 10-15% of the line speed being used for it. So speedtest of 4Mbps is usually 3.2Mbs - 3.6Mbps. For 2Mbps it's 1.4Mbps - 1.8Mbps. All depends on copper quality/distance/exchange etc.
 
GrammatonCleric said:
My modem allows me to customize my line stats. I can't remember what it's called and I can't check now because I'm not home.

It basically lets me configure my line if I see my SNR is too low. I can adjust this between -10 and 10; -10 being the max stability, but sacrifice the line's speed, 10 being best performance.

So, if I disable this option entirely, my line syncs at 20-megs. This setting is current set to -2, which bumps my SNR to around 8 db as opposed to between 5 - 6 db. So my line is syncing, if memory serves, at 1.8mbps ATM, but I'm only getting 1.4mbps out of it :(
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I'd recommend tweaking those settings a bit - ASSIA will generally give you the best experience available for your line and exchange. Ultimately, line stats are pretty hard to manipulate - it's simply a metric of comms between your router and exchange.
 
AfriGuy said:
I'd recommend tweaking those settings a bit - ASSIA will generally give you the best experience available for your line and exchange. Ultimately, line stats are pretty hard to manipulate - it's simply a metric of comms between your router and exchange.
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And your router and exchange do not always agree on line stats. There are different ways of calculating it.
 
AfriGuy said:
Some do, the differences are usually pretty tiny though.
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I'm trying to whittle things down, to see what might be the issue. I know once either you or Genie did a port reset for me on your side, and it got a bit better.
 
Icemanbrfc said:
I'm trying to whittle things down, to see what might be the issue. I know once either you or Genie did a port reset for me on your side, and it got a bit better.
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Port resets can only help so much - what issues are you seeing that you're trying to narrow down a cause to?
 
Still getting mixed results on my 4Mb/s ADSL. Syncs at 5Mb/s according to my modem. I suspect there might be some serious saturation issues on the Telkom side? Vanderbilpark, Eligwa exchange.
 
AfriGuy said:
Port resets can only help so much - what issues are you seeing that you're trying to narrow down a cause to?
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Just my evening streaming issues. Like I said, mornings and afternoons fine. 6/7pm onwards buffering. Exchange according to Charl is only half its capacity. So I can't understand why mornings and evenings there would be such a big issue.
 
Icemanbrfc said:
Using the 169.1.1.1 AH one. Should I use the 8.8.8.8 one? Or is there another specific one I should be using?
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Is your DNS set to auto? We do have regional DNS setup to make sure that your traffic routes to the correct CDNs and caches.
 
AfriGenie said:
Is your DNS set to auto? We do have regional DNS setup to make sure that your traffic routes to the correct CDNs and caches.
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I'll check tonight. I'll wait on Rickster if he can advise where in this router to Check if it's set to auto
 
LAV said:
Still getting mixed results on my 4Mb/s ADSL. Syncs at 5Mb/s according to my modem. I suspect there might be some serious saturation issues on the Telkom side? Vanderbilpark, Eligwa exchange.
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What sort of speeds are you getting? What does your latency look like?
 
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