Broadband and Speed Issues

[Nikumba]

Hopefully someone can shed some light or an idea why this problem happens.

We have 4 x 2Mb ADSL lines with Nildram, last week we got our bonded ADSL working on a Cisco 2621xm router, which worked fine.

So off I went to adslguide and did a speed test didnt get the result i was expecting.

Got 1mb up which was good but only 6mb down, so i ran the test again this time i got 2.2Mb!!! By now it was nearly 7pm so left it till the morning to speak with Nildram so they adviced me to do the BT Speedtest, using the bt login and use they site which i did. I ran 5 tests on each of the 4 lines and each test bar maybe one or two i got a speed of 1.3Mb, so i submit the results to Nildram few hours later i get an email back saying the line speed is withing BT's limits for a 2Mb line BT limits is 400 - 2000 I mean that is bloddy pathetic!!!!!

So i complained to Nildram and out the BT guy came and ran the APPS test on the line oh and guess what he got 2.2Mb every single time

Which means no one will take responsiblilty for the speed issue, anyone have any ideas?

Nikumba

[maxrealism]

I'll take a stab at it. You're using speed rating sites to rate your speed... which I personally (using NTL) have always found them shy of the mark I expect.

Analog X Netstat Live (http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/nsl.htm)

The link above is a dead useful bandwidth monitor gives bits and bytes read outs with graphing too. Most handy.

I would suggest you pick a big download (SP2?) and request it... then watch the bandwidth measure what you get told by the OS and by Netstat Live. Also make sure no-one else is using those connections.

Sorry I can't be more help... bonded lines is something I don't know much about.

[Matt]

Yeah, I wouldn't trust ADSLGuides speed test for much more than 2 meg lines.

I'm on a shared 1 gig line, (limited to 100meg due to network card). And where as I can max this out on some downloads, the highest I ever got from adslguide is around the 33 meg mark.

[Nikumba]

Ill give the netstat thing a go and see what happens.

Cheers

[Mu5icMan]

try downloading a file from the mpuk server, if it reaches your 8Mbit speed then it's working fine. If it doesn't it could be a load balancing problem on the router.

I have nildram bonded, only 2 lines using a linux box as a router, works great.

[KingDaveRa]

I'd personally do what Mu5icMan suggests. I think its a bit more 'real world' to try and download a real file from a real website. I usually go download a linux ISO from mirror.ac.uk or somewhere similar. Plig.org have a fast site too I think.