Broadbandings!

[slycat]

Phew, it's such a relief to finally have my broadband up and running. It's been so frustrating to have to use shitty 30k 2G service. Now I can actually do stuff with the internet such as view EF photos, download "stuff" and use Xbox Live. The service synced up at 21mbit initially but wouldnt connect, so I asked for assistance with configuration (turns out all my IP settings needed to be changed) and then I was online. I enquired about the upload plus which is an option for my line and it got activated straight away. So now, I've got 20mbit download and 2.5mbit upload. Very nice!

I may actually write a post about EF now rather than my frustration with my connection :)

Comments

[jaff-fox.livejournal.com]

For whome gives you 2.5megs up?

[slycat.livejournal.com]

It be Be Broadband (www.bethere.co.uk). You need a Be enabled exchange to make use of it tho.

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

If you feel like making a techie entry sometime, that'd be cool - I'm on the verge of finally going with Be. What's your line data (noise, attenuation) and supposed line distance (as claimed by SamKnows, or anywhere else, if you know better), and actual speeds realised up & down?

How was Be's support, too?

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Where the heck are you based anyway? I keep getting the impression you're somewhere in the bay area and then you say you are on the verge with going with Be :P

Anyway, my line is about 320 metres from the exchange which is what the engineer said when he was repairing my line.

These are the readings for my line:

Uptime: 0 days, 2:45:14
Modulation: G.992.5 Annex M US 56
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 2,593 / 20,456
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/GB]: 382.52 / 13.61
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 13.0 / 14.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 3.5 / 8.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 7.0 / 6.0
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / µ
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 4 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 1 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 2 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 0 / 2
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 5 / 0
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 2 / 0

Should I be concerned that I've downloaded over 13GB in less than 3 hours? :D

[porsupah.livejournal.com]

13GB? Ye gods and little fishes. ^_^;

320m from the exchange? Okay, try telling me that didn't figure into your choice of living quarters. =:)

Well, I've gone ahead - got my MAC from Zen, and the order's in with Be.

And as for where - currently, a hop away from Eastbourne, and a pleasantly modest ride from Brighton, even if I've only been down there once so far. I need to remedy that, in particular to gorge myself on sushi at some point. =:9 (Oddly, as far as I can see, there's nothing in the sushi line in Eastbourne. Maybe just as well for my bank balance..)

Hopefully activating won't take too long, though I've also got that 3G modem as a backup, and pretty reasonable speed in the locality, though 3 seem to throttle the uplink down to about 6K/s.

[arakinuk.livejournal.com]

*envies* 10x my download and 5x my upload!
Glad you've got nets :-)

[slycat.livejournal.com]

Heh, my upload is faster than your download :P

[megadog.livejournal.com]

Are they theoretical link-speed rates [as negotiated and revealed by your router] or actual post-DSLAM-contention achievable speeds [as measured by stuffing real data into an FTP server]?

I sit on the end of copper cables that run across the valley on wobbly telegraph-poles and which my router claims as 6144Kbit/sec download, 448Kbit/sec upload. But because I'm on a 'business' class ADSL service [20:1 contention ratio] I can invariably hit that 448Kbit/sec upload rate, day or night.

[slycat.livejournal.com]

The figures I've quoted are the sync rates negotiated with the DSLAM. So far I've only tested the upload on speedtest.net and that gives the true upload achieved as 2100kbps.