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Help with slow @$$ DSL.....

buck

buck

Lifer
I just moved to Cinicinnati from Floriduh and had Road Runner(cable) and now I have Zoomtown(dsl), I am
temporarily staying on a farm while getting a house built, it will be 4 or so months here.
I am getting 450k to 500k speeds compared to the lightning speeds I was getting with RR. Should I shell out the extra money to get hyper speed (they say 1.5 meg, but they also say that i'm supposed to be getting 750k right now), or is there something else I can do? I cant get RR because it would cost $6000 to get the line buried to the house from the road. Its a cisco modem...... I know this is a shot in the dark, but I have to ask. Thanks all!
 
Run winipcfg or ipconfig (NT/2K). Find your deafault gateway. Run telnet. Telnet into the default gateway. The password will either be nothign (hit enter) or "cisco." Then type "show int wan0" What are your Kbps down and line quality?
 
ADSL Physical Port
Line Trained
768 Kbps down; 408 Kbps up; 136 down baud; 136 up baud
Line Quality 28 dB
TX Power +10.1 dB Remote TX Power +14.3 dB
GTI FW Rel B.90

If this helps, I do the speed tests on dsl reports and the like and it shows 450-500k. Thanks so much for the help man......
 
Your line quality is pretty low. Should be about 45. That might be because you're just far away from the Central Office but it might be do to other factors in the line. I think ZT puts something on the line to test if ZT is available and that reduces quality. You'll want to call them and see if they can troubleshoot the line quality. My bets are on the distance from the CO.

Try connecting to multiple servers/multiple connections with getright and seeing how fast you can download that way. You might be able to get closer to 750kbps(93kB/sec) that way.

If none of that helps, you can try posting to fuse.discuss.zoomtown on nntp.fuse.net.

I wouldn't try the 1.5mbps. It's damn expensive.

Good luck.
 
Thanks alot man, sounds like your familiar with the area. 😉
Whats getright btw?
Thanks again.
Is ZT the only dsl provider in this area (Milford)?
 
I live north of cincy, in fairfield. Getright's just a download manager, but you can download from a bunch of servers and the status window will show the total download speed.
You can get other providers of DSL, but they will be using cincy bell's lines so it won't help any.
 
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