Really Helpful Site

cavillas · Oct 21, 2007, 14:41:11

In case anyone has not heard of it just thought I would mention http://www.kitz.co.uk

A really helpful and useful site for adsl connection and other things related.

Rik · Oct 21, 2007, 15:06:40

It's a site I often point people at, Alf, rather than re-invent the wheel.

Lance · Oct 21, 2007, 15:54:34

Certainly a very useful for site.

Kheldar · Oct 22, 2007, 09:48:03

yeah that does look good.

maybe even some stuff here i might understand

Glenn · Oct 22, 2007, 18:16:41

It says I'm a loooong way from the exchange, 5.15Km. No wonder I can't get any better than 2mb.

Rik · Oct 22, 2007, 18:18:37

You must have a fairly 'straight line' cable run to get that, Glenn. I'm only 3.6k from the exchange, but my attenuation is 56db, suggesting a few detours along the way. (Or just lousy cable and poor joints.

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Kheldar · Oct 23, 2007, 10:29:36

Quote from: Rik on Oct 22, 2007, 18:18:37
and poor joints.

i hear thats a sympton of advancing years Rik

Rik · Oct 23, 2007, 10:55:17

Glucosamine just doesn't work with phone lines - you can't get the cable to swallow the tablet!

cavillas · Oct 23, 2007, 12:00:49

Ageism rears its head again, creakily.

Ricisbest · Nov 08, 2007, 16:52:22

I'm only 249 metres from the exchange, and live in the middle of no-where (so low contention). I guess that explains my fast speed test results.

Rik · Nov 08, 2007, 16:53:57

Can you post your stats, downstream attenuation, sync speed and noise margin. I'd have hoped you'd be getting a bit more out of the line at that distance.

Ricisbest · Nov 08, 2007, 17:00:01

I'm pretty pleased with the speed I'm getting. My previous ISP struggled to achieve 3Mb/s for most of the day!

Connection Speed: 8128 kbps down, 448 kbps up
Line Attenuation: 4 db down, 1 db up
Noise Margin: 10 db down, 28 db up

Rik · Nov 08, 2007, 17:08:04

You should be able to get faster than that, try a BT speedtest, I'm wondering if your profile hasn't caught up yet.

Noreen · Nov 08, 2007, 18:01:09

What speed would you be expecting for him, Rik? It's looks pretty good to me.

Rik · Nov 08, 2007, 18:06:18

Actually, you're right Noreen, thanks for the sanity check.

Profile should be 7150, throughput around 6900. For some reason, best known to myself, I was looking at the speed and thinking 'sync speed'. It's been a long day.

talos2 · Dec 15, 2007, 18:41:14

I do agree, if I understood what the figures mean

Rik · Dec 15, 2007, 18:49:41

Which ones are you unsure about?

talos2 · Dec 16, 2007, 10:41:18

Well I know what ADSL is, and the speed in MB's

but thats my lot, but it's very interesting nevertheless. 8)

But please dont worry, igrorance is bliss for me, if you put too many dials on my dashboard I wont see the road.

Rik · Dec 16, 2007, 10:49:01

OK, anytime you have a question, though, feel free to ask - we all had to learn about this stuff when we started out.

Inactive · Dec 16, 2007, 11:07:27

Quote from: talos on Dec 16, 2007, 10:41:18

But please dont worry, igrorance is bliss for me, if you put too many dials on my dashboard I wont see the road.

Love that statement..