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What happened my Magnet speed?

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  • 09-12-2006 10:27pm
    #1
    campers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭


    Just enquiring what could've caused my Magnet ADSL speed to fall off?

    I had 2Mbit down when I signed up a few months ago, and it's gradually dissipated to 1.5Mbit.

    I called them during the week to upgrade to 4Mbit. I was told the upgrade would be instantaneous, but I'm still stuck at 1.5!

    They previously told me I had a "potential" bandwidth of something like 8 Mbit on that line when they tested for their entertainment/TV bundle....


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    #2
    JNive
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    unless your line has deteriorated over time, it might be an issue to look into.

    with what are you testing your speed with


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    campers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭campers


    JNive wrote:
    with what are you testing your speed with

    I've tried a whole bunch:
    irishisptest.com - 1.5
    smarttelecom.ie - 1.6
    mumion.com - pegs me at 1.37 M/bits (Test Result)

    Is there a more techy way to measure this?

    Either way, it's a long way off 4 Mbits!


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    JNive
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    are you on a wireless connection or ethernet conenction to your magnet modem


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    Conar
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    Can you try downloading a decent sized file from Microsoft.com or something and see what speed you get?
    With a 4mb line you should expect 420kb/s to 450kb/s.

    I just tried those 2 speedtests you mentioned and one gave me 509kbps and the other gave me 1.4mbps.
    I have a 3mb line and I know it works fine cos I get 320kbps DL's all the time without fail, never have any latency issues etc etc.

    Have you checked your modem to see what speed it says its connected at?


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    campers
    Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭campers


    JNive wrote:
    are you on a wireless connection or ethernet conenction to your magnet modem

    Wireless to a Magnet 2wire 2700HGV....

    btw: http://home goes nowhere on it... so it there any way to get line stats info from this modem?


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    Conar
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    From a command prompt type "ipconfig /all".
    The default gateway is most likely the IP address of your modem/router.
    Use the ip address in IE to access the modem.


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    JNive
    Registered Users Posts: 994 ✭✭✭JNive


    it will not be your modem since the modem is not a router/NAT, you cannot access the modem settings anyways. As for checking line stats i used my Smart ADSL2+ modem for that lol.


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    Conar
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    JNive wrote:
    it will not be your modem since the modem is not a router/NAT, you cannot access the modem settings anyways. As for checking line stats i used my Smart ADSL2+ modem for that lol.

    Sorry assumed the modem they used was a router.


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    ro2
    Registered Users Posts: 562 ✭✭✭ro2


    Click on this link, wait 10 seconds and see what speed you're getting.

    http://ftp.ipv4.heanet.ie/mirrors/ftp.opensuse.org/opensuse/distribution/SL-10.1/non-oss-dvd-iso/SUSE-Linux-10.1-GM-LiveDVD.iso


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