Re: adsl 2+ speeds

Daniel Pittman <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.slug.chat
Organization I know I put it down here, somewhere.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Sridhar Dhanapalan <[email protected]> writes:
> 2009/3/11 Voytek Eymont <[email protected]>:
>> I have a BigPond ADSL2+ connection, about 2km from local exchange, with
>> Linksys WAG54G v3
>>
>> according to WAG64G, the link is:

[...]

>> it should show abt. 20000, not 84000, am I right?
>> is it possible the connection was enabled for 'incorrect' speed ?
>>
>> I d/l Knoppix 6CD 648MB (from Bigpond mirror) in abt 14 minutes
>>
>> what realistic speeds should I expect on ADSL2+ 2km from exchnage ?
>
> Plug your address into http://adsl2exchanges.com.au/ and see what it
> estimates.

That is only ever going to be an estimate, based on distance, though
they are sometimes more accurate due to better copper routing maps.

They can't account for crappy lines between a house and the exchange,
which the figures the OP posted show he suffers from.

Regards,
        Daniel
-- 
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.