About DSL modem and connection

[mystvearn]

I have an Aztech external DSL modem. I live 4.7km from the tel line. By how much the distance effects the connection?
Is there a way to speed up connection?
Is there a difference between DSL modems that makes the speed faster?
I don't understand this numbers-please explain. I have sygate firewall-it says incoming 123++k but when I open my Win MX-I see 28000+-B/s-are both of them the same? I am not using any other internet application.
Sometimes my line get disconnected when talking on the phone. Is it usual for this to happen. There is a noise in the background-like the line is not that "clean" for a while-then the internet gets cut off. I have to redail again. And if someone is using the phone I cannot redail. Is it normal?

[Byte 2.0]

the farther you are from your phone CO, the slower it will get.
most DSL max distance is about 32k feet from the CO, some companies limit to about 18k feet for better speeds, but at 18K you will not always get the max download available.

[SARGE]

If you live 4.7 miles from the switch I'm surprised you got DSL. Unless you have a remote terminal fed by fiber and the last few thousand feet is copper. If only on copper alot of telcos won't even provision a line at 18k feet without capping your line at the lowest speed. Some won't even talk to you if that far. By your distance, again I'm surprised you even got it at all; that's 26k feet.

[mystvearn]

My house is 2.9miles from the CO. What is this 32k, 24k thing?Well DSL is flat rate way faster than my dial up modem.

[Floppyman]

Since you are 4.7km away you are within 18000ft = approx. 5.45km. Have you tried any software tweaks on your connection yet? Check out www.speedguide.net HTH

[SARGE]

Duh again. I thought it was 4.7 miles

[mystvearn]

Thanks. I have not use any tweaking software. What are good software to use? Over here the max limit is 5km coverage.

[Byte 2.0]

I miss read as well, thought 4.7 miles
ok, if 5km is the max distance they support, Is that close to 32,000 feet? 32,000 feet is that max distance that I know of DSL being able to run on copper, and that is with speeds reduced down to about 256kb up by 256 kb down when in sync. The farther out the most trouble with sync, that is why alot of companies don't push it over 18,000 feet.

The company I do support for, requires with in 18,000 feet, but I have seen a few customers get all the way up and provisioned at 24,000 feet.(does not show up until line tests are done that measure the line) some get connected at reduced speeds, others can't gain sync.

At 18,000 feet I have seen some customers at full sync rate of 1504/256 and also seen customers that can't gain sync.

The footage that matters is the Copper in the line from the CO or remote.

Some customers are miles and miles from the nearest Co, but there are remotes like Sarge described that are feed by fiber.

Then you just have to be go by the copper lenght from the remote to your home.
I think the closest a remote would ever be to a CO would be about 36,000 feet,
that way if you drew a 18,000 feet circle around a CO and a 18,000 feet circle around the remote they would not over lap, allowing for the most coverage area of the 2 systems.(that is based on providers that do no service over 18,000 feet of copper)
Other providers would do about the same thing but work on the 32,000 feet from Co, and 64,000 feet from co for the remote.

[glc]

5 Km is about 14000 feet.

What is the advertised speed of your connection? Is this standard PPPoE ADSL or some other type of system like G-Lite?

[mystvearn]

It says that I get 384k download and 184k upload. But I get only 140+k download. ADSL. Using the standard PPPoE.

[Byte 2.0]

if you are getting 140k download then when you are downloading files from the web, does your browswer report about

14KB/sec?
or have you been able to get 100KB/sec?

384 by 184 would be max about 34KB/sec download and about 18.4KB upload.

how does that compare with what you are getting?

[mystvearn]

The fastest is 29KB/sec download. Upload is also around that at around 22.5KB/sec which I don't understand why. But usually I get up to25-26KB/sec download. and 10kb/sec upload.

[lwlim]

are you using streamyx?
if yes then your upload speed would be 128kbps
my download speed is about 40-42KBps
sometimes your connection is slow because your modem is just connected at speed like 160Kbps or 228Kbps,i have experienced it before.

[mystvearn]

Yes how did you know? What is your connection lwlim? I am not sure about the modem connection- I have experienced it before with dial up-not sure with adsl though. Sometimes the connection is connected at 10.0mb/1.0gb/10.0gb. I am not sure what this numbers mean. The connection all seem the same to me. What type of line are you on lim?

[rave]

wow....what a malaysian fest
streamyx says 128 kilobits/s upload and 386 kilobits/s download
but i only get a 70 kilobits/s upload and a 300 kilobits/s download.

what u get is 40kilobytes.....thats different and websites regulate the bandwidth so that others can also download the file/page/whatever.

[ktkendall]

Originally posted by glc 5 Km is about 14000 feet. What is the advertised speed of your connection? Is this standard PPPoE ADSL or some other type of system like G-Lite?

5k = 3.1 miles = 16,368 feet

[mystvearn]

Well its the standard 384k download and 184k upload. Not browsing through web pages. I use winmx to see the bandwith... kind of low tech. I did use some weeb tools-the results are the same. I get 280k download. Upload is somtimes weird-If some users having supperior lines-cable and up my upload is near my download session. And can for some reason that I congest my line that I get disconnected?I know I get it when using dial up modem.

[lwlim]

Originally posted by mystvearn Yes how did you know? What is your connection lwlim? I am not sure about the modem connection- I have experienced it before with dial up-not sure with adsl though. Sometimes the connection is connected at 10.0mb/1.0gb/10.0gb. I am not sure what this numbers mean. The connection all seem the same to me. What type of line are you on lim?

My connection is 384 downstream/128 upstream, and I'm using streamyx.

[lwlim]

Originally posted by rave wow....what a malaysian fest streamyx says 128 kilobits/s upload and 386 kilobits/s download but i only get a 70 kilobits/s upload and a 300 kilobits/s download. what u get is 40kilobytes.....thats different and websites regulate the bandwidth so that others can also download the file/page/whatever.

streamyx never advertise 386Kbps download,it's 384Kbps.

[mystvearn]

ok. i think i can handle this. thanks