Upgrading Speed

Well i'll give telkom a call. at 3pm and see what has or has not been done.
Else i'll wait till 8PM and reset and see what is happening. looks like there is lots of different points of view. hopefully i can clarify it.
 
UnUnOctium said:
No, he hasn't been upgraded. It's syncing at 384, router calculates the maximum possible rate given the SNR and attenuation. Just some extra info.

Secondly, that SNR for downlink, 14.4 dB? If it indeed is that then no way in hell you will have reliable 4mbit mate. Lots of drops imminent.
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Yep. Not sure why people would think that your ISP has any control over what speed you synch at since you synch up to the exchange before you connect to your ISP. If you're a gamer and they put you on 4mbps you're going to cry with that SNR :(
 
So there are guys saying that the 4mbps+ rating the router is reporting is due to the router calculating a max attainable speed based on SNR/attenuation, while on the same page there are guys saying that the download's SNR is so low that there's no way it will even achieve 4mbps in the first place.

Confusing. :P

*edit* Oh yes, what may be interesting to some of you is that on a line that has in excess of a rate-limited account's capacity, you may achieve better speeds than using a matched account with the matched capacity. While running our Openweb 384kbps Uncapped account on our 4mbps connection, during a weekday, I was able to achieve ~47kb/s both ways (yes, at the same time) for torrenting without problems. Once we dropped the line speed down to 384kbps before month-end to match it, speeds got shot and attained a max of ~15kb/s down with ~7kb/s up sustainable.

Not related to the OP's thread, but whatever. :P
 
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Well i just phoned telkom not even 15min ago, and they said it hadn't been completed yet.
I just arrived home and i'm now syncing at 4096!
Stoked!!!!
 
nanonyous said:
So there are guys saying that the 4mbps+ rating the router is reporting is due to the router calculating a max attainable speed based on SNR/attenuation, while on the same page there are guys saying that the download's SNR is so low that there's no way it will even achieve 4mbps in the first place.

Confusing. :P

*edit* Oh yes, what may be interesting to some of you is that on a line that has in excess of a rate-limited account's capacity, you may achieve better speeds than using a matched account with the matched capacity. While running our Openweb 384kbps Uncapped account on our 4mbps connection, during a weekday, I was able to achieve ~47kb/s both ways (yes, at the same time) for torrenting without problems. Once we dropped the line speed down to 384kbps before month-end to match it, speeds got shot and attained a max of ~15kb/s down with ~7kb/s up sustainable.

Not related to the OP's thread, but whatever. :P
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The equations they use are very optimistic for that router and I doubt they even consider the 1/f fade of the channel. In practice, with that SNR, it will sync for a few secs, max. Also, once hardware limitations are out of the window (i.e. no more real world effects like noise and fading) then the software on ISP side limits you. 384/8 = 48 ;)

MonTage said:
Well i just phoned telkom not even 15min ago, and they said it hadn't been completed yet.
I just arrived home and i'm now syncing at 4096!
Stoked!!!!
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grats.
 
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