Re: At last! (more on the 8Mb speeds)

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 13:40:05 +0100, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Woody)
wrote:

I have gone from 1m to 2.5m (ie - up to 4m - which is probably as well
as I can do in the country) and it is an improvement which is
appreciated at the same price but I wouldn't have it if there was
distruption involved.

Is it just the people here or is it the entire network (or part of it)?

It's the way the 8megabit kit in the exchanges work - they spend about
ten days playing with the various parameters available in order to
train into the highest reliable speed. Note that if you bounce your
router in frustration a lot, you'll likely end up with too low a speed
- the exchange end kit will assume that it's a signalling loss, not a
kit restart.

I fortunately had my home-office ADSL regraded on a sunday night
before being away for three days, so I missed the worst of it.

Bet it could be done in two minutes if they posted an active unit that
the customer could plug into the master socket, press "train now" and
then post back.

Cheers - Jaimie
--
"We all recall that the difference between a computer salesman and a car
salesman is that the car salesman *knows* he's lying to you"
"... and probably knows how to drive"
- F O'Donnell and M Smith, in afs
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