What's your internet Speed, (who is the best host for games)

ummmmmmmm lol, something to do with all these numbers im geussing stumbles??

cool no worries m8, guna have a blat on f1 for awhile anyway



Item Description
Product Name SmartAX MT882


ADSL State Show Time
Data Path Interleaved
Operation Mode G.dmt
Max. Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 7360 / 1008
Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 7200 / 160
SNR Margin Down/Up(dB) 7.0 / 26.0
Attenuation Down/Up(dB) 7.5 / 5.0
Power Down/Up(dBm) 14.0 / 1.0
CRC Down/Up 0/ 1
FEC Down/Up 49948/ 0
HEC Down/Up 0/ 0
System Up Time 17:53:57
DSL Up Time 3:02:42
PVC Select PVC-0
PPP Up Time 3:02:42

adsl2+

ADSL State Show Time
Data Path Interleaved
Operation Mode G.dmt
Max. Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 7328 / 900
Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 6880 / 160
SNR Margin Down/Up(dB) 7.5 / 24.0
Attenuation Down/Up(dB) 7.5 / 6.0
Power Down/Up(dBm) 13.5 / 2.0
CRC Down/Up 0/ 1
FEC Down/Up 5704/ 0
HEC Down/Up 0/ 0
System Up Time 0:11:29
DSL Up Time 0:10:51
PVC Select PVC-0
PPP Up Time 0:10:50

puttzNZ wrote:Bandwidth Down/Up(kbps) 6880 / 160
SNR Margin Down/Up(dB) 7.5 / 24.0
Attenuation Down/Up(dB) 7.5 / 6.0

That tells me you are fairly close to the exchange, but the actual copper phone line is in very poor condition (Or could even be a cheap modem, I don't know anything about your modem).
If when using your telephone line just to talk to people, you have very poor quality phone calls, would point to the phone line.



Understanding Noise Margin and Line Attenuation

• Noise Margin (SNR) is how good or poor the phone line from your house to the telephone exchange is.
  
• Line Attenuation is the distance (in phone line) you are from the exchange (Generally, the more copper the electrical signal has to travel through to reach your house, the noiser the signal ().

Noise Margin (SNR);

• 6dB or below = bad and will experience no sync or intermittent sync problems
  
• 7dB-10dB = fair but does not leave much room for variances in conditions *
  
• 11dB-20dB = good with little or no sync problems *
  
• 20dB-28dB = excellent
  
• 29dB or above = outstanding

* - Heavy Rain can cause phone pits to fill with water, degrading phone line quality. Extreme Hot/Cold temperatures can effect the exchange electrical equipment.


Line Attenuation;

• 20dB and below = outstanding
  
• 20dB-30dB = excellent
  
• 30dB-40dB = very good
  
• 40dB-50dB = good
  
• 50dB-60dB = poor and may experience connectivity issues
  
• 60dB or above = bad and will experience connectivity issues

I agree with most of that Terror, except...

Noise Margin (SNR); 6dB or below = bad and will experience no sync or intermittent sync problems

Half right, below 6dB is bad, but I've found 6 to be the optimum number for stability and speed. Any lower and yes, you could have sync problems and random disconnects. Any higher and you have to trade the better stabilty in your line for less speed.

I just got a Billion 7404, and found a link to adjust my SNR (was sitting on 9dB) to 6dB, d/l sync upped from 15000 kbps to nearly 18000 kbps. Had it on since Thursday night and no drop-outs or bad connections.

Stumbles wrote:Half right, below 6dB is bad, but I've found 6 to be the optimum number for stability and speed. Any lower and yes, you could have sync problems and random disconnects. Any higher and you have to trade the better stabilty in your line for less speed.

Well that would be dependent on each line.

Your modem will try to find the best setting, but as with tuning tv stations, extra human fine tuning will provide you with better results that suit your exact situation.

Yeah, true. We have to make do with the crappy lines dealt to us by Tel$tra.. For now... Bring on the NBN

Stumbles wrote:Yeah, true. We have to make do with the crappy lines dealt to us by Tel$tra.. For now... Bring on the NBN

maybe in 4 years haha!

puttzNZ wrote:

dont really understand any of this kinda stuff, i know mines pretty suckful though, good old nz fencing wire cant keep up

Looks like its ping that is the problem there, no wonder you see the flying cars all the time lol!

Here's my diagnostic stats, Bigpond 1500/256 adsl:

DSL Down Up
Current Rate: 1536 kbs 256 kbs
Max Rate: 11136 kbs 1000 kbs

Current Connection: Down Up
Current Noise Margin: 27.0 dB 8.0 dB
Current Attenuation: 9.4 dB 9.5 dB
Current Output Power: 6.2 dBm -3.1 dBm

ATM........ Cells .....Errors %
Transmit: 14622411 0 0
Receive: 42349573 0 0

IP........... Bytes Packets Drops Errors %
Transmit: 517078184 5802984 0 0 0
Receive: 1830177782 6543526 0 0 0

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 13335 kbps 906 kbps
Line Attenuation 25 db 7.5 db
Noise Margin 6 db 6 db

Just for comparison, my modem stats...

Operational Mode G.Dmt.BisPlus
Annex Type AnnexA
Upstream 1020
Downstream 17571
Elapsed Time 2 day 3 hr 46 min 47 sec
SNR Margin(Upstream) 15.0 dB
SNR Margin(Downstream) 6.00 dB
Line Attenuation(Upstream) 13.0 dB
Line Attenuation(Downstream) 26.5 dB

what router did you get??

I'm now using a Billion 7404VNPX (voip modem but I don't use the voip).

http://au.billion.com/product/voip/bipac7404vnpx.php

My bro-in-law got it and didn't like it, so I've "borrowed" it...lol

NICE

love as free router

i think my netgear is well over the hill.. its i think 5 yrs old now

Yeah, about time to update it.. Old technology in the Netgear...lol

Dynalink RTA1024 is meant to be a really good, stable modem/router... About $90 from MSY (I think).

The Billion seems pretty good, only used it a couple of days so far though.

Yeah +1 for Dynalink (I'm using the RTA1025 or something like that). Runs sweet as bro! :-)
Chris (OD)

PS me at the moment:

oh yea rub it in lol, im going to ring the bastards today see what the story is, theyll probly just tell me my No.8 fencing wire is old and rusty lol, good old nz technology

just ran another test this morning.. friggin exetel

i need to play xbox at work, just ran a test, check that out, and thats wireless

just rung them, and because my names not on the account got to get the missus to ring later for me, dont you love that, they said there might be something they can look at

so after sitting on hold for nearly an hour yesterday finally got to talk to some mr india technician, he looked at few things, then asked if the modem is next to the phone jack, which its not, its in a 10m phone cord extension, he said un plug that and run another speed test.

unplugged it and put the modem right next to the phone jack, tryed another speed test, download came back abit better, but my upload was still suckful, he said it should be more than what it is at the momnet, so i shall be ring mr india again after work.

hmmmmmmmmmm just rung them again, turns out theres another plan that i can be on for better upload speed , and told the guy that i changed my modem stettings to adsl2+ in the setup, he then went on to say that wouldnt help me as that some cable (firbe ostic? i duno bout this shit lol) isnt expect to be completed in nz till 2011 haha, so tchanging it aint going to doing anything lol, looks like ill be upgrading to the better plan

Wow, I've got adsl2+, does that mean I'm already running on fibre optic... Sweeeettt!!! LMAO.

Hope you can get it sorted Puttz, then all your hassles disappear.

First time ive done it in a while, Not to bad. Time of day effect tassie badly because of the lack of exchange stations.

Not bad Recoil, considering you're testing to a server in Canberra.

Upload is fairly good allover
NZ

WA: Must be sand in the line, upload is good though

Brisvagus:

Testing different locations is only good for the Ping part of the test

Ping = seeing how quick information can get from you, to the server and back to you.


Your Upload and Download speeds are your Peak results over the small file test.

Upload and Download speeds can be affected by Congestion. Either at the server, in your house and rarely some bottleneck between you and the server.

I now have telstra cable with the 30mfps but still having issues being disconected.All this computer/internet jargin is doing my head in...I just want a fast connection with no lagg or problems..I thought thats what i paid for.HELP!!

Do i now need to ajust some settings or something??AARGG