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Reverting back from Zyxel to Netopia means less Speed

  • 10-07-2011 4:11pm
    #1
    Gerb68
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭


    Fed up with the constant drop offs with the Eircom Zyxel, I reverted back to my troublefree Netopia. The thing is on the Zyxel a speedtest returns a speed of 8.79 Mb and on the Netopia it returns a speed of 6.5 Mb. I have noticed that my speed profile is different on both.

    The Zyxel P-660HW-T1 v3 stats are:
    Speed: 10240 kbps /670 kbps
    Line Attenuation (Down/Up): 38 dB /19 dB
    DSL Noise Margin: 6 dB /17 dB

    and the Netopia stats are:
    Downstream Upstream
    Max Allowed Speed (kbps) 7616 672
    SN Margin (dB) 14.00 16.00
    Line Attenuation (dB) 33.00 18.50

    Is there anything I can do?

    Thanx for any help


Comments

  • #2
    toffeesfan
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭toffeesfan


    your netopia is prob just standard adsl router where the zyxel is adsl 2+,meaning it can hold faster speeds,the old zyxel was the same ie max speed was 7.6Mb,
    id prefer to live with the slower speeds rather than put up with disconnections!


  • #3
    Gerb68
    Registered Users Posts: 266 ✭✭Gerb68


    Even though I asked Eircom about this over on Talk to... Eircom, I think this is the cause. Eircom rep said the only difference is that one router is older than the other.
    A few have switched back and its strange nobody else mentioned the loss of speed. A few have also switched to new ADSL2+ routers such as Netgear. I wonder are they getting full speeds.


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