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funny kdesc, im having same issue. i upgraded 2 wks ago to 10mbps, getting downloads of about 1.20mbps. ive tweaked and checked everything. i cant figure it out? someone help please!!! ive had 3 technicians from cl here, the one today plugged in his laptop to the 660 series modem on adsl and got ...

Today they changed my connection to ADSL2+ and now I have 10Mb and is working fine.
I'm getting 1.180Kbyte/s download speed.

Thank all of you that have replayed this thread.

ADSL2+ is backward compatible to ADSL2, which should be the least your ISP is running in order to sell 10 mbps plans. The old ADSL can only support up to 8 mbps.

http://forums.speedguide.net/album.php?albumid=53&attachmentid=447

My guess the issue lies in the quality of the phone line.

The ...

I would like to know how the technician at Phone Company changes the ADSL speed.

(Change of hardware, Router configuration, DSLAM configuration, Switch, Line frequency, Line rate, Magic, Voodoo, etc.)

From my point of view looks like they change 2 things, first the line rate so that the ADSL ...

Cost of a new ADSL2+ gateway (router cum modem) to handle 10mbps is only about USD80. Why remain happy paying for 10 mbps and get only 7.4 mbps?

Yes, I have bought yesterday a new D-Link modem that supports ADSL2+, but looks like my Provider don't support ADSL2+.

My modem shows this:

Mode: G ...

It's possible you weren't provisioned correctly.. post the results from this test site to the forums please

http://miranda.ctd.anl.gov:7123/

I have used this site ( http://ndt.switch.ch/ ) because the other is inaccessible to me.

WEB100 Enabled Statistics:
Checking for Middleboxes ...

Run and set the Optimizer to Optimal settings to tweak your TCP... are you running anything in the background that is using up bandwidth when you test? Are you testing from here? http://www.speedtest.net

I configured with Optimal and restarted and nothing have changed and there is nothing else ...

Hi

I have a old ADSL US Robotics modem model USR8550

Recently my connection was upgraded from 600Kbps to 10Mbps.

I'm aware that my modem is limited to 8Mbps download speed because it is old.

The modem status page shows this:

Downstream Fast Channel: 7488 kbps
Upstream Fast Channel: 416 kbps ...