Broadband Speed

[steve wilson]

Hi,
I'm moving to a new house and I know that the house is going to be around 300 metres away from the phone exchange. Despite this, the estimated speed I can get is 2MB. As I understood it, the closer you are to the exchange the faster the connection. Has anyone got any ideas why I will get such a poor connection.

thanks
Steve

 

[ScottMac]

What you heard is basically true.

The maximum signaling speed is controller by the provider. It may be that the ADSL they provide is capped to 2M (that's signaling speed, not necessarily your throughput).

It may also be that there are tiers; cheap = 786K, better =`1.5Meg, even better = 3 Meg best=6Meg ...

There's different flavors of DSL signaling too. Some / many providers are moving to VDSL and /or VDSL2 which supports a much higher signaling rate. So your provider migh be a little pokey now, but could be planning an upgrade.

Talk to your provider, dig around a little on broadbandreports.com, see what people are saying about that area.

Good Luck

Scott

 

[JackMDS]

"Estimated speed I can get is 2MB".

Hmmm.... 2MB is better than FIOS, you probably mean 2Mb/sec.

If the DSL contract is for 2Mb/sec. then that is what you would get.

If the If the DSL contract is for higher Bandwidth then at 300 meters you would get higher.