Vdsl speedtest

sand_man said:
Recently upgraded from 10mb to 20mb, ADSL2+. Cybersmart are managing the lines but I get my data elsewhere. Regardless that is as good as I'm getting!! As you can see the SNR margins and attentuation rates are perfect so why the hell such crap performance????!! I've been trouble shooting this with Telkom and Cybersmart since Monday but no luck with a solution. Anyone prepared to hazard a guess?

Using a Tp-Link W8970N. This router lost a power supply in a power outage a couple of months ago but since replacing said power supply it has been performing more or less as it should. Is there any likelihood that my issue is hardware related?



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It MUST be the ISP. You have a really good line so I highly doubt it's line related. Unless it is like a freaky dslam problem it must be the ISP.

Tried with a Webafrica free account?
 
cavedog said:
It MUST be the ISP. You have a really good line so I highly doubt it's line related. Unless it is like a freaky dslam problem it must be the ISP.

Tried with a Webafrica free account?
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Tried 3 different capped accounts, Afrihost, Axxess, WebAfrica. Also Telkom test account and Cybersmart capped account!!

Someone called me this evening, claiming she was making changes on the line and I should reboot and test and voila...

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MrNeedforSpeed said:
I upgraded to 40 about two weeks ago. Happy with the speed. Will post some internationals later.

I am not an expert all I know is I get 40 down and 3 up... But is the other stuff okay?
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Good local speeds those, try international, pretty sure you will beat a 100Mb Business 10:1 fibre line lol

Did a test now, those that think FTTH will solve your upload speeds might have to re-think lol
(Speeds in SA is fine thought)
Can you believe this is a 100Mb fibre line...

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Also have to add this was the fastest test I got today lol, seeing that everyone has now left here.
 
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irBosOtter said:
Good local speeds those, try international, pretty sure you will beat a 100Mb Business 10:1 fibre line lol

Did a test now, those that think FTTH will solve your upload speeds might have to re-think lol
(Speeds in SA is fine thought)
Can you believe this is a 100Mb fibre line...

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Also have to add this was the fastest test I got today lol, seeing that everyone has now left here.
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That's just sad :D

Here is one of my better ones I've seen for international, not US though.

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irBosOtter said:
Good local speeds those, try international, pretty sure you will beat a 100Mb Business 10:1 fibre line lol

Did a test now, those that think FTTH will solve your upload speeds might have to re-think lol
(Speeds in SA is fine thought)
Can you believe this is a 100Mb fibre line...

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Also have to add this was the fastest test I got today lol, seeing that everyone has now left here.
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No ways dude that can't be a 100mb fibre line :wtf:

This is mine to Washington:

 
MrNeedforSpeed said:
No ways dude that can't be a 100mb fibre line :wtf:

This is mine to Washington:

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Lol, got an even worse one this morning to the Speedtest server in Washington, tried Boston but looks the same

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The only reason we got the fibre line was for better upload speeds to MS Onedrive for Business, servers are all in USA somewhere, but we had better upload speeds on our ADSL line than the fibre line
In SA it's full speed though, but kinda useless as the servers we want to upload to is not in SA
 
Can you manually sync tweak etc your line to go above 40/3Mbps ?


I mean surely VDSL is capable of 50Mbps?
 
Thor187 said:
Can you manually sync tweak etc your line to go above 40/3Mbps ?


I mean surely VDSL is capable of 50Mbps?
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It would be limited by Telkom, otherwise people would order a 2Mbit DSL line and then get 20Mbit ADSL 2+ or more out of it.
20Mbit VDSL and get 50Mbit or more out of it etc.

However, if you do find a way around that - please PM me ;)
 
Man, I read somewhere of guys playing around with their SRN and Attenuation and got silly speeds of a VDSL line.


I will go search for it
 
Thor187 said:
Man, I read somewhere of guys playing around with their SRN and Attenuation and got silly speeds of a VDSL line.


I will go search for it
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Yeah, they request it from the ISP/Telkom, depending who is managing their line. Say your line supports a max of 14mbps, you can get a 20mbit line, where the exchange would sync you as high as possible without lowering the SNR below 6dB about. If it is too unstable, you can also request that it be synced at say 12mbps, but I think only Telkom can do that since the other ISPs (I asked Afrihost) do not have the tools to do it.
 
Thor187 said:
Here is the link.

1000Mbps VDSL/Copper

http://mobile.extremetech.com/compu...-work-on-g-dot-fast-successor-to-dsl?origref=
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I'm just going to lift from the text:
the range of G.fast will be very short — on the order of 250 meters
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And from the comments:
G.fast requires electronics within 250m of the end user. There is no other way to convert the G.fast electrical signal to an optical signal.

But there are two problems with that: (1) existing DSLAMs and fiber nodes ARE MORE than 250m from most customers, so they are useless for G.Fast deployment; and (2) existing DSLAMs (and maybe fiber nodes too, I'm not sure) cannot be retrofit for G.fast due to NEXT and FEXT issues, which make them useless even if they ARE within 250m of the customer.
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So G.Fast is not very useful, since most of us live over 250m from the exchange.
 
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