why is my dsl slow?

[logosone]

Perhaps I'm getting my metrics mixed up? "16 MEGA BYTES" per second?, am I missing something here? I think perhaps we're not on the same page here somewhere and I'm not questioning your truthfulness, but this is not a known quantity for these services. I know of few people (in the U.S.) who come anywhere near 1MBps regardless of their connection???

[Genex]

Perhaps I'm getting my metrics mixed up? "16 MEGA BYTES" per second?, am I missing something here? I think perhaps we're not on the same page here somewhere and I'm not questioning your truthfulness, but this is not a known quantity for these services. I know of few people (in the U.S.) who come anywhere near 1MBps regardless of their connection???

Times have changed ^^

http://www.speedtest.net/result/290400102.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[Brokenjar]

I had problems when we first switched to dsl. I spent a lot of time with tech support. Eventually I realized that my house is wired with long bundles of phone wire that is not twisted (brief for the novice, twisted is good). The long bundles was the source of interference. I fixed it by tapping off the line right where it first comes into the house and then placed a dsl filter between the dls phone jack and the long bundle that supports the house phones. Things have worked great since then.

[logosone]

Times have changed ^^

http://www.speedtest.net/result/290400102.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

That graphic displays "kb/s", that is not MBS.

[Pacman]

Perhaps I'm getting my metrics mixed up? "16 MEGA BYTES" per second?, am I missing something here? I think perhaps we're not on the same page here somewhere and I'm not questioning your truthfulness, but this is not a known quantity for these services. I know of few people (in the U.S.) who come anywhere near 1MBps regardless of their connection???

No, it's 16 megabits per second, which is 2 megabytes per second (8bits/byte)

In reality I only ever see that kind of speed when downloading a fat file from a server. Fastest i've ever had a torrent move is about 1 megabyte/sec.

[starwars1948]

OK, I believe ya! But I do notice you're right in L.A. apparently? I would dare speculate you have state-of-the-art service and equipment where there are many many subscribers covering the investment.

:thinking
I think you may have misread my results. A 3Mbs DSL connection while fast it surely isn't state of the art nor the fastest. It is just a basic DSL modem using my phone line, nothing fancy. I'm not in L.A. I'm in Anaheim but I used the L.A server to test my connection speed since it is the closest one to me.

[ghetto guy]

http://www.speedtest.net/result/290500166.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
To be honest, I'm on fiberoptic. However, when the company did have lower speed services, they did use the same modems for the higher speed services as the lower ones.

[ghetto guy]

Times have changed ^^

http://www.speedtest.net/result/290400102.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

WOW! Where do you live?

[trandraskell]

21867KB/S tranlates to about 21 Mbps everytime you get kb/s you have to divide by 1000 and that will give you the speed in Mbps. when i downlad any torrents I am usally downloading at 4-5 meg per second and that depends on everyone else to so a speed of 6000kps is 6Mbps.

lendingheart---
Also dsl is affect by weather due to coming across a deditcated copper line. Also do you have filters on your phone connects. I would run speedtest and if you have bad connection I would contact your isp

[rtr]

kb vs KB.... one is in bits and other in bytes. for bits to bytes, divide by 10 (not 8 ! as 2 more are for error checking).