Can DSL peak above advertised speeds?

[deckeda]

Just got 1.9Mbps down, on 1.5Mbps service. Never saw anything higher than 1.4Mbps.

Yes folks, this is big news over here in the land of the Crawling Internet, aka my house.

[space-time]

so you don't believe the test results?

[Black]

Wait 'til you get your next bill . . .

[GGD]

Some DSL modems have config/status pages that can show you what the actual connection speed is. If you exceed that speed, then be suspicious.

[Speedy]

Power surge.

[deckeda]

space-time, I believe it (two test sites were the same) --- I just thought that for DSL, the advertised speed was the max, not an average or whatever. Perhaps a technical miracle has occurred and they found a way to silently upgrade this neighborhood to 2.5Mbps service. Or 3Mbps service and I'm still that much below where I "should" be, heh.

GGD, those of us with AT&T's DSL in this and surrounding neighborhoods don't have modems, but instead a 2nd phone line run to the house just for DSL. My router plugs right into it and performs the PPPoE itself. Very cool.

The phone lines are underground fiber, which sounds great except that it ironically limits us to 1.5Mbps service until the day U-Verse comes to town. If ever.

[Jimmypoo]

It's against Federal Law. Prepare to go to a prison near the swamps and be the b!tch of four dudes.

I'm figuring it will be this one:

D. RAY JAMES CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
HWY 252 EAST
FOLKSTON, GA 31537
Phone: (912) 496-6242


Lube is contraband(width) <---- how ironic!!

[deckeda]

Now that I think about it, I've been disconnected from DSL for the last few days, running everything through Clear. Gonna finish out my 2nd month with them and then cancel, probably. That inexplicably shrank to .6 - .8Mbps today.

[GGD]

deckeda wrote:
GGD, those of us with AT&T's DSL in this and surrounding neighborhoods don't have modems, but instead a 2nd phone line run to the house just for DSL. My router plugs right into it and performs the PPPoE itself. Very cool.

Unless I'm misunderstanding you and they are somehow running Ethernet directly to your house on those wires, you have a combined DSL Modem and Router, fairly common with most DSL providers these days. Often in the config pages for that device there is some DSL status info that may show you the sync speed of the line, both down and up.

[deckeda]

Ethernet directly to the house.

Upon initial installation many years ago they used a 2nd physical line to the demarcation box outside. Still just 4 conductors, a regular POTS cable, but 10baseT capability is more than enough for what they planned.

So that meant Internet availability in just one room, where the line was, until I re-routed the line to a central location and inserted a common router, first a Macsense, then various Baffalos etc. No modem built-in.