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[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by Chris

My router says I connect at 6720Kb/s with a line attenuation of 31db. Which as I understand these things is pretty good.

(Sky router stats (speed, noise, attenuation) explained - Sky User - The unofficial support forum for everything Sky!)

Online speed tests vary wildly depending on the site, time of day etc. Even if you actually are connecting at 8mb a speed test could very well say you're only on 3mb.

I've seen the stated connection speed on my router change a lot over the years as the lines, exchanges and my ISP have all been upgraded so I'm inclined to believe it's telling something similar to the truth and not just telling me what I think I want to know.

No doubt a network engineer will show up on this thread and tell me I'm completely wrong though. I wouldn't be surprised.

You are on Sky Broadband which has speeds of up to 2Mb/s in Aberdeen and you live about half a mile from the Aberdeen Lochnagar Exchange i would be very surprised if you get speeds of 6.7Mb/s.

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

You are on Sky Broadband which has speeds of up to 2Mb/s in Aberdeen and you live about half a mile from the Aberdeen Lochnagar Exchange i would be very surprised if you get speeds of 6.7Mb/s.

Well I beat 2Mb/s on a download test half an hour ago, so you're already wrong.

The Lochnagar exchange has Sky LLU on it for speeds of between 5.5 and 8Mb/s.

So you're wrong again.

Samknows - NSLNG exchange

from bt:
For Telephone Number 01224****** on Exchange ABERDEEN LOCHNAGAR

Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial test on your line indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband service that provides a line rate up to 2Mbps.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a potential ADSL Max broadband line rate of 5.5Mbps up to 8Mbps.

[Elizabeth]

Originally Posted by Clav Divs

Currently using Zen, 25 bucks a month with a 20Gb allowance.

Not the cheapest, but I've had virtually no downtime, no connection problems, and their service is great.

I have Zen too. Had a bit of downtime the last couple of days, but as far as I remember that's the first for the time we've had it which has been... I think about a year now? I'm not really sure; seems pretty decent so far, though.

I changed to Tiscali from BT and it was completely shite, really. LOADS of downtime for literally months on end, so, after some angry phonecalls, we made a quick change.

I'm starting to think it might be our area as, it's not supposed to be great for Freeview either, but our Freeview seems to work fine, so, I don't know.
...but, my grandparents who are with Tiscali and live in Kingston have an awesome connection, so, aye... *shrugs*

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

i would be very surprised if you get speeds of 6.7Mb/s.

6720Kb/s works out at 6.56 Mb/s

So you're actually right about that bit

[Stripey]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

You are on Sky Broadband which has speeds of up to 2Mb/s in Aberdeen and you live about half a mile from the Aberdeen Lochnagar Exchange i would be very surprised if you get speeds of 6.7Mb/s.

Well, post router stats and see...

I'm currently in a rural area over 3km from the exchange.

Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 448 / 2,080
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 29.5 / 58.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 19.0 / 1.5

the signal to noise margin is more important than line attenuation on the current adsl network btw. If you reset your router a lot, or there is noise on the line etc causing resyncs, your BRAS profile will drop to barely anything and takes up to 3 days to recover. AFAIK the only way to see the profile is on the bt speedtester site.

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by Chris

from bt:
For Telephone Number 01224****** on Exchange ABERDEEN LOCHNAGAR

Your exchange is ADSL enabled, and our initial test on your line indicates that your line should be able to have an ADSL broadband service that provides a line rate up to 2Mbps.

Our test also indicates that your line currently supports a potential ADSL Max broadband line rate of 5.5Mbps up to 8Mbps.

Yes, Lochnagar supports up to 8Mb/s but the cabling in Aberdeen doesn't. So does Denburn (the one i'm on).

Those bits of information you provided tally up with what i've said. Your line supports a max speed of 5.5Mb/s.

I didn't realise that Sky had upped their service, as far as i knew they had a max of 2.3Mb/s in Aberdeen City as they weren't a priority service. This may have changed with uptake from the public domain (obviously it has).

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

Those bits of information you provided tally up with what i've said. Your line supports a max speed of 5.5Mb/s.

No it doesn't. The bit in bold quite clearly says my line supports between 5.5 and 8Mb/s, and that's from BTs own availability website.

You haven't actually backed up anything you've said yet with any numbers or anything better than "I know a guy who works for BT and he said". I've posted information which so far has only made me more sure that I can get over 5.5Mb/s

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by Chris

No it doesn't. The bit in bold quite clearly says my line supports between 5.5 and 8Mb/s

You're misreading that, it says that your line supports up to a max of 5.5Mb/s with an overall max of 8Mb/s if it was available. There is no 8Mb/s broadband in Aberdeen, there's the potential for it but not the wherewithal. Has there been any work done on Lochnagar in the last few months by any chance? They may have upgraded something there since i last spoke to my mate.

Anyone on here getting anywhere near 8Mb/s other than Chris?

[Chris]

Originally Posted by Alkaline

You're misreading that, it says that your line supports up to a max of 5.5Mb/s with an overall max of 8Mb/s if it was available.

You're not aware of what ADSL Max is are you?

Broadband

[Alkaline]

Originally Posted by Chris

You're not aware of what ADSL Max is are you?

Broadband

No i wasn't, that must be a new thing upgrade-wise to the Aberdeen exchanges. I stand corrected and am shoveling my words into my mouth for a total chow down.

I will point out though that there is a disclaimer in that information about cabling in your area.