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[aideriimibion]

First you have the cable to your house from the street. Then you have a connection from where the cable enters your house, to your ADSL modem itself (for Orange/Wanadoo their ADSL modem is called a "livebox"). Is the length of this cable which has the potential to kill your ADSL speed, if it is too long.

Ah ok, it was the livebox bit that confused me. I need to sort that out then because my cable from the wall outlet to the router is about 10m [no]

[Soypopetype]

This recent EU survey as listed here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7127146.stm

Like Marvin_The_Martian already said it doesn't mean NL have best infrastructure. (ADSL[2+] network is propably pretty good, tho)
Sweden propably have best (overall) developed infrastructure in europe atm.

Also that graph is kinda misleading. Would look quite different if all European countries would be included. (Full stats here)

[Catieliecutty]

Ya know, I started this thread hoping I could get at least some teeny weeny bragging rights. [rolleyes]

But now think my connection qualifys as "boringly average" if not below!

Oh, well.......... I learned something new, and thats always good!

[9Goarveboofe]

well i might as well add my latest one in

[Flalafuse]

That's my work connection, it is a 100/100MBit connection.


That's my home connection, it's ADSL2+ 24MBit

[OccabsLam]

My ISP must have upgraded me for free.

[MiniBoy]

I never trust those test, they never report my connection speed accurately. I use gamershell or a torrent to give me an idea of what my connection will average.

Currently my 4Mbit(512KB/s) connection consistently averages about 440KB/s (3520kbps)down

[Catieliecutty]

I never trust those test, they never report my connection speed accurately. I use gamershell or a torrent to give me an idea of what my connection will average.

Currently my 4Mbit(512KB/s) connection consistently averages about 440KB/s (3520kbps)down

Then I would compare the two, keeping in mind that the place you decide to connect to can also have a bearing.

[FjFHQLJQ]

ADSL2+ 24mbit/1mbit

[loikrso]

if you want decent a decent connection and brill support go to www.zen.co.uk

[verizon]

Should be 12mb/512kb

[LsrSRVxR]

102400/102400 kbit/sec (up/down) for 10 euro/month

pwned

[Pheddytrourry]

What do you mean by house-entry and livebox chris? I'm confused

In the Netherlands it's called the "ISRA point". It's a small case where the phoneline comes in on one side and goes out on the other. Until that point it's the responsibility of our Telecom company, after that it's our own.

What he means to say is that with DSL, make sure the length of wire between your modem and your local exchange is as short as possible, and that the quality of the line is as good as possible. DSL is very dependant on both for its speeds! The difference between 20m of "home cable" and 8cm (his case) probably results in sync speeds of about 2mbit higher.

But that is only if you're NOT getting max sync speeds at this time max sync speeds = the length of cable between the exchange is short enough (you know from the graphs, up to 1.3km for 20mbit), that phonecable is of good quality and the phonecable in your house is short enough and the quality is good enough. [thumbup]

@ eduard: 100mbit sync for 40 euros a month, for a consumers connection here you're on the campus, that doesn't count

[9Goarveboofe]

@ eduard: 100mbit sync for 40 euros a month, for a consumers connection here you're on the campus, that doesn't count

speaking of 100mbit... you know whats intersting?... my friend from Romania has 100mbit and along with phone it only costs like 7 or 8 euro/month but we did some speed tests and only within romania did he actually get such high speeds... tests from other places in europe or america would barely reach 1 mbit

[Pheddytrourry]

speaking of 100mbit... you know whats intersting?... my friend from Romania has 100mbit and along with phone it only costs like 7 or 8 euro/month but we did some speed tests and only within romania did he actually get such high speeds... tests from other places in europe or america would barely reach 1 mbit

Well that's not really strange since Romania probably has a weak connection to the (huge) international exchange points. The one in Western Europe for example is located in Amsterdam (and hence my 100mbit connection does often get maxed)