I'm thinking this is a tad slow for dsl...

[hans030390]

Well, right now I'm on my friends pc, and they have the sbc yahoo dsl. Now, as I understand it, I should be getting ~100kbps in downloads, right? well...even if not that, it's only getting ~25-50kbps...50 is lucky, and 60 is just rare.

I'm not too concerned, I have broadband myself, but he'd like to do some online gaming...and I don't know if this is the best connection. He can't switch his service either.

Could there possibly be some way to get his internet going faster?

This isn't an emergency, but I thought it'd be a nice thing to do for him. IF you know anything, I'd appreciate if you could help.

 

[pulsedrive]

For DSL depending on what speed they are quoting you should be getting somewhere between 150KBps to 300KBps for 1.5 Mbps and 3Mbps respectively. Also this is constircted by the server you are getting it from as well, because if they can't push it any faster than 45-50 then that is what you are stuck with using. Try a speed test from dslreports.com and see what they tell you. Also, make sure that they don't have the DSL modem plugged into a DSL filter, the only things plugged into filters should be phones.

 

[Garion]

DSL speeds vary heavily. It's not uncommon to have a 768Kb/s DSL line.

Keep in mind that Kb/s and KB/s are very different - Kilobits per second vs KiloBytes per second. Most networking discussions are done in Kb/s but IE measures it's downloads in KB/s.

If he's getting 60KB/s that's 480Kb/s of data throughput. Figure there's about 15% overhead in there and you've got about 550Kb/s. If so, that's reasonable to expect from a slow DSL line. If he's paying for more, however, he's got something to talk to his ISP about..

- G

 

[nweaver]

My mother in law pays $55 for 128K DSL (Don't ask, it's the ONLY source, and the dial up offered by the same company was $21 and only connected at 38-42)

 

[hans030390]

Ok, he got ~300kbps download, and ~55kbps upload....So, maybe yahoo dsl is just slow, but i'm thinking it should be faster...or...at least I've heard of it going faster.

and about the filters, I thought you had to hook up the modem through a filter...do you not?

edit: ok, i found out the specs of this dsl. It's supposed to get 384kbps downstream and 128kbps upstream. so, this is going slower than it should...

and ok, he said they don't have it hooked up through a filter.

 

[Devistater]

I think a few misconceptions going on here. First: Filters, you need them on every thing EXCEPT the dsl modem. They need to go on all phones, all answering machines, all fax machines, etc. NONE on the dsl modem.

Second, as mentioned above. The speeds quoted by the DSL company are kiloBIT's per second. that 384kbit down and 128kbit up is what they are quoting. When you download something from IE, you see speeds in kiloBYTES. Multiply that by 8 (8 bits in a byte) to get kbit that the phone company quotes to you.

Anyway, if the numbers you are quoting for actual download are from the speed test, the download is probably pretty much on the money. 300kbit vs the 384kbit. (dont forget you lose 10%-20% from TCP/IP packet header overhead). And if your download speeds quoted at the top post of 50kbyte is true, you are getting way past what his specs are.


Now, this is SBC DSL right? Why aren't you guys on the new sale plan of $15 a month for 1.5mbit (many times faster than the 384kbit you have now) plan? Or the $25 a month for the 3mbit service?

 

[hans030390]

I'm not in on that deal because I dont have SBC. My friend does.

I might tell him about that deal though.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: hans030390
Ok, he got ~300kbps download, and ~55kbps upload....So, maybe yahoo dsl is just slow, but i'm thinking it should be faster...or...at least I've heard of it going faster.

Hmm. I do not see the problem.😕

300kps should yield about 30KB/sec. in File download.

Tell him to read this page and try to optimize: http://www.ezlan.net/Internet_Speed.html

:sun:

 

[volrath]

SBC's instructions to me were always to use filters on everything including the modem. Because their filters have a port for phone and a port for modem. So stick phones in the phone section and modems in the modem section.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: volrath
SBC's instructions to me were always to use filters on everything including the modem. Because their filters have a port for phone and a port for modem. So stick phones in the phone section and modems in the modem section.

If you have the kits that have a modem plug. Yes.

The older style kits that I have had only 1 port. For phone. Plugging that into DSL modem would screw it up.

Since the port that says modem on it is just a passthrough and not a filter, might as well leave that off. The reason why they include that is its easier for ppl just to put it everwhere, and you might want to have a phone connected at the jack where your DSL modem is put.