can download and upload speed be increased?
Laurence Smith
Hi all,
On my Dell Inspiron 530 PC with Vista Basic OS I have Verizon ADSL.
And I use a Trendnet TEW=652BRP router.
When I run DL and upload speed tests at Speakeasy.net I consistently
get DL speeds of .72 MBPS (720 KBPS) and uploads of 0.13 MBPS.
When running YouTube videos even with SpeedBit Video Accelerator I
still have frequent stops for buffering.
Today I tried several settings using TCP Optimizer but none of them
have increased the DL speeds at all.
Am I expecting too much or are there settings that can be changed which
would allow me to typically watch something at YouTube w/o having to
sit through numerous stoppages.
Any serious help is appreciated.
--
Larry Smith
philo
>
> How do the speeds look?
That's good advice.
Also (at least it worked for me) I had poor connection speed when I
tapped my dsl modem off of a phone jack. Must be some bad wiring along
the line...as I ran a dedicated wire directly from the phone junction
box up to my DSL router and my connection improved
Laurence Smith
> On Sun, 1 May 2011 20:33:38 +0000 (UTC), "Laurence Smith"
> <dr4s...@hvi.net> wrote:
>
> >
> Bypass router. Connect one single computer directly to DSL modem.
>
> How do the speeds look?
Thanks for the idea. I'll probably try that some time in the next few
days.
--
Larry Smith
VanguardLH
<reformatted OP's one-line style to paragraph style>
Does your ISP (Verizon) have their own bandwidth or speed meter? Your
ISP can only guarantee your contracted speeds with them, not to
somewhere outside their network. Just what speeds does your contract
with Verizon for the DSL service say you will get? Maybe you subscribed
to a cheap and slow DSL service. Have you called them to see if they
can contact, reset, and test the DSL modem?
Have you yet power cycled your hardware (power all down and, in order,
power up the DSL modem, router, and lastly your hosts)? Have you yet
booted Windows into is safe mode (with networking) and retested?
Mike Easter
> When I run DL and upload speed tests at Speakeasy.net I consistently
> get DL speeds of .72 MBPS (720 KBPS) and uploads of 0.13 MBPS.
If you don't pay attention to upper and lower case conventions and throw
around caps recklessly as you did above, your *important* (b vs B) units
will be ambiguous because it appears that you capitalize everything
whether it should be or not.
little b = bits
big B = bytes
little k = kilo as in kilobits kb and kilobytes kB
ps = per second (not PS)
So, while you were helping us understand that there are about a thousand
kilos in a mega or mebi with your dual expression, I am still left to
wonder what your speakeasy speed is.
Here's the way speakeasy expresses speeds:
Last Result:
Download Speed: 9543 kbps (1192.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 977 kbps (122.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
... which isn't really 'perfect' because the k in kilo 1000 should be
small while the Ki in kibi 1024 (s^10) is capped.
I don't want to argue about kilo vs kibi; but it is important to your
message about whether you are talking about bits or bytes. That is, did
you cap your B because it was bytes or did you cap your bit B because
you were capping everything else like K and P and S?
--
Mike Easter
Dan C
Formatting your hard drive will increase speed by a factor of three.
Serious.
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stuff nowadays
Try removing all phones etc from the phone jack, leaving just the
router connected. Reboot router and do another speedtest. If the
result is higher than before then you probably need to isolate the
other hardware using microfilters.
Bear in mind that download speed depends on distance from the
telephone exchange.
Here in the UK, ISPs quote their service as 'up to' ie 'up to 20Mbps'.
The 20Mbps applies if you live next door to the phone company. If you
are 3 miles away you get about 1Mbps.
Otherwise, just pause the video at the start to let it buffer.
my stats - 37Mbps down 8Mbps up using fiber to the cabinet (the hi-
speed stuff terminates at the box at the end of the street)
Laurence Smith
> Laurence Smith wrote:
>
> > When I run DL and upload speed tests at Speakeasy.net I consistently
> > get DL speeds of .72 MBPS (720 KBPS) and uploads of 0.13 MBPS.
>
> If you don't pay attention to upper and lower case conventions and
> throw around caps recklessly as you did above, your important (b vs
> B) units will be ambiguous because it appears that you capitalize
> everything whether it should be or not.
>
> little b = bits
> big B = bytes
> little k = kilo as in kilobits kb and kilobytes kB
> ps = per second (not PS)
>
> So, while you were helping us understand that there are about a
> thousand kilos in a mega or mebi with your dual expression, I am
> still left to wonder what your speakeasy speed is.
>
> Here's the way speakeasy expresses speeds:
>
> Last Result:
> Download Speed: 9543 kbps (1192.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
> Upload Speed: 977 kbps (122.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
>
> ... which isn't really 'perfect' because the k in kilo 1000 should be
> small while the Ki in kibi 1024 (s^10) is capped.
>
> I don't want to argue about kilo vs kibi; but it is important to your
> message about whether you are talking about bits or bytes. That is,
> did you cap your B because it was bytes or did you cap your bit B
> because you were capping everything else like K and P and S?
I reran the Speakeasy test this morning.
0.73 Mbps download speed
0.13 Mbps upload speed
Sorry for the upper/lower case confusion. My bad.
--
Larry Smith
Dan C
> 720kbps isn't really fast enough for YouTube, esp since they have HQ
Why the fuck are you replying to me with this garbage, you ignorant
stooge?
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Mike Easter
> Mike Easter wrote:
>> Last Result:
>> Download Speed: 9543 kbps (1192.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
>> Upload Speed: 977 kbps (122.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
What I pasted in here for illustration was actually my cable speed.
If you convert that/mine to megabits as you express below, it is:
Down: 9 Mbps
Up: 0.98 Mbps
That is almost 10:1 asymmetry of my down/up.
> I reran the Speakeasy test this morning.
>
> 0.73 Mbps download speed
That is pretty terrible from my perspective; approximately 7% of my
speed or 1/13. I download more significantly more Bytes than you do bits.
> 0.13 Mbps upload speed
Also a fraction of my up speed.
I don't have much experience with troubleshooting DSL, but a starting
point is how far you are from the CO point and what kind of speed you
contracted for.
If your distance/proximity and your contract should allow you to have
much greater speed, then someone needs to be figuring how what is wrong.
Your provider should be involved in that.
--
Mike Easter
VanguardLH
> Laurence Smith wrote:
>
>> I reran the Speakeasy test this morning.
>>
>> 0.73 Mbps download speed
>
> That is pretty terrible from my perspective; approximately 7% of my
> speed or 1/13. I download more significantly more Bytes than you do bits.
>
>> 0.13 Mbps upload speed
>
> Also a fraction of my up speed.
>
> I don't have much experience with troubleshooting DSL, but a starting
> point is how far you are from the CO point and what kind of speed you
> contracted for.
>
> If your distance/proximity and your contract should allow you to have
> much greater speed, then someone needs to be figuring how what is wrong.
>
> Your provider should be involved in that.
Could also be the OP is at the extreme end of the distance supported by
DSL: the farther you are from the telco's CO (central office), the less
speed you get. If you're too far, they won't even sign you up. Also,
the lower quality the POTS line the lower the speed.
Looks like the OP is in the range for Verizon's DSL service: see
http://www22.verizon.com/Residential/HighSpeedInternet/Plans/Plans.htm.
They show a range of .5-1 Mbps and the OP is at .73 Mbps. Just where
the OP is in the range might also depend on which service "tier" (if
they have multiple speed tiers) that he purchased and his distance from
the telco's CO and the condition of those POTS lines. I didn't see any
service tiers listed at Verizon's DSL site (but then I wasn't motivated
to dig further).
Qwest has several service tiers for their DSL service:
http://www.qwest.com/residential/internet/broadbandlanding/?refCode=RES000002368&PC=PS.
The cheapest one is only 1.5Mbps up, 0.9 Mbps down. If you're at the
end of their max distance, it'll be a lot lower. When I last checked
(many years ago), I was too far away from their CO to get their DSL
service. I did a check today and they only service tier they have in my
area is the 1.5/0.9 Mbps plan (so I couldn't even opt to pay more to get
more). They've improved their service, their POTS lines, or added a
closer CO to shorten the distance for them to offer it to me now. Of
course, I'd have to reestablish and pay for POTS service before I could
get their DSL service and that adds more cost. I have a cell phone
(regardless of what main/home telephony service that I have) and
MagicJack for the home phone (5 yrs @ $60 total). Nope, I'm sticking
with the more expensive and far faster Comcast's cable broadband
service. I get 20.1/3.6 Mbps (up/down) for speed which is 13 times
faster than the OP's 1.5 Mbps *rated* DSL service tier with Verizon (or
Qwest) for their DSL service but then DSL being slower than cable is
expected, especially if you buy at the slowest DSL service tier.