3 Mb broadband Dublin 15, Clonee exchange

[tenandtracer]

Just checking if anybody has experienced the same as me. My usual speed is > than 2.7 using isptest.ie. Recently it is between 1.8 and 2.4, QOS never greater than 75%.

I assume when you on a 3 meg package it should be consistently > 2.5 download speed?

Cheers

[DECEiFER]

In theory, yes. In practice, it all depends.

Here's a list of common factors:
1. How far you are from the exchange.
2. How much contention your broadband package cites (3Mb usually has 24:1).
3. The quality of your line from the exchange to your door.
4. The quality of your wiring from the socket to your modem/router.
5. Excess line noise over useful signal (Line Attenuation vs. SNR/Noise Margin).
6. Other shared users on your line hogging your bandwidth (neighbors maybe downloading too many movies constantly).
7. Over subscription on your exchange in recent times.

I'm sure you can attribute many other factors to the cause, but those are the common ones you need to be aware of.

But let's say you want to investigate, let's eliminate the common causes ourselves first, before you call BT to shout at them.

Go into your Router/Gateway and find the DSL Stats for Line Attenuation and SNR/Noise Margin on both the Downstream and Upstream. Let us know what the dB levels are for those, and we'll see if that is an issue that needs to be addressed, or not.