Just installed a BB starter package (USB Modem)for a friend who lives about 500 yards from my house.
His speed 2meg my speed on BB livebox free package with mobile phone 1meg
So out of curiosity I phoned CS and asked why,
We are on the same exchange (small rural village)
Same green BT roadside box, although in different directions, but same same distance from box
We live on a newer estate so all our cabling is newer,
I know others on our estate are on 2meg but with different providers
CS told me that when i set up the account that it was fixed at 1 meg and why dont you try upgrading to unlimited and then you might get a better speed.
I have an old BT speedster and am going to give it a try, what do you all think?
Check your current setup on http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks, see what the report shows, if it indicates MTU/RWIN changes then run DR TCP.
I honestly have no problems now with emails, connection speeds and accessing web pages since running DR TCP, using OpenDNS and using smtp IP 193.252.22.138. Here's my current speed, apparently my exchange is capable of 6.5Mb :
N.B. I don't use Livebox, I have a Belkin F5D7633 wireless modem/router.
1. Your Tweakable Settings:
Receive Window (RWIN): 55600
Window Scaling: 0
Path MTU Discovery: ON
RFC1323 Window Scaling: ON
RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF
Selective Acks: ON
MSS requested: 1390
TTL: unknown
TTL remaining: 50
TOS/TOS subfield: 0
TOS/Flags:
2. Test Download
Actual data bytes sent: 1025391
Actual data packets: 739
Max packet sent (MTU): 1430
Max packet recd (MTU): 1430
Retransmitted packets: 1
sacks you sent: 39
pushed data pkts: 33
data transmit time: 4.392 secs
our max idletime: 426.9 ms
transfer rate: 202987 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 1623 kbits/sec
transfer efficiency: 99%
3. ICMP (ping) check
Target unpingable
Notes and recommendations:
RWIN is in range
Looking good
Joined: 12 Jun 2006Posts: 907Location: Weston-super-Mare, UK
Was using 1478/66148 Speed 6125
Change to 1478/204196 Speed 6229
1. Your Tweakable Settings:
Receive Window (RWIN): 204196
Window Scaling: 2
Path MTU Discovery: ON
RFC1323 Window Scaling: ON
RFC1323 Time Stamping: OFF
Selective Acks: ON
MSS requested: 1438
TTL: unknown
TTL remaining: 50
TOS/TOS subfield: 0
TOS/Flags:
2. Test Download
Actual data bytes sent: 1024001
Actual data packets: 718
Max packet sent (MTU): 1478
Max packet recd (MTU): 1478
Retransmitted packets: 0
sacks you sent: 0
pushed data pkts: 25
data transmit time: 2.437 secs
our max idletime: 261.7 ms
transfer rate: 353323 bytes/sec
transfer rate: 2826 kbits/sec
transfer efficiency: 100%
ADSL firmware version : A2pBT009c1.d17d
Connection mode : G.DMT
Type : Fast
Noise margin (dB) : 9.1
Attenuation (dB) : 38.0
Attainable download rate (kbps) : 8032
ADSL status : Connected [0]
Downstream Upstream
Rate (kbps) 7168 288
Keith
Last edited by keithwjones on Sat Jun 02, 2007 6:52 pm; edited 1 time in total
Joined: 12 Jun 2006Posts: 907Location: Weston-super-Mare, UK
I was waiting for that. I have a fairly new Dell computer 1478 was the figure that was already there (I do not know why) and I have never changed it.
Also I was not sure what my RWIN was because depending where you looked there were 2 different values.
The other day when DNS went down, before I realised I started changing MTU but then put it back. My connection is stable at around a speed of 6 on LLU. That is the speed I would expect so there is no real point in changing. I did however change the RWIN.
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