Disappointing Speeds

We signed up for Infinity Option 2 a few weeks ago, with an estimated upload speed of 18 mbps. On 3rd October an engineer arrived and my Infinity service was started.
3 days later I am looking at my stats and there seems to be a huge problem with my upload speed which is only 7.54 mbps, only 42% of the 18 mbps estimate and way short of my maximum acheivable speed of 20 mbps.
Our master socket is about 10 metres from the nearest green street cabinet so I am surprised that we are not maxing out here.

BT won't do antything until 10 days have passed.
Looking at the speed tests youve provided there is something wrong with either your PC or the speed test.
If on Infinity 1 the upload IP would show as 10Mbps and on Infinity 2 as 20Mbps even if those speeds were unachievable.
Get back after the 10 days if things are still the same.
In the meantime you could try ONE reboot of the modem. I would also recommend a direct connection to the modem at the same time by setting up a PPPoE session on your PC. If you need help with that get back here and either I or someone else will advise you on the setup but a forum search should take you to it.
This would rule out a router problem. Also turn off any third party Antivirus and Firewall for the duration of the speedtest (don't forget to turn it back on).

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Question about Noise Margin and Line Attenuation a...

1.       For several years I have had a BT telephone line. From the utilities provided by http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl I find that I am connected to the Exchange at Merton Park (BT Code: LSMEPK) Distance:-   Direct:   960 metres (appx)* By Road: 1.29 km. Exchange Status ADSL enabled: March 30, 2000 DSL Max enabled:   March 30, 2006 SDSL enabled : Enabled 21CN due : (PSTN) N/A 21CN WBC (Broadband)   Enabled 15.02.09
2.       I previously had broadband from UKOnline and used a Speedtouch 570 adsl modem. I was paying £9.99 for a speed of 1MBit/s – in practice 700K – which was fine for most purposes but BBC iplayer did struggle a bit. UkOnline has been taken over by SKY so I switched to BT Total Broadband Option 3 in mid December, and initially used the Speedtouch 570 as there were delivery delays on BT Home Hub 2.0 due to weather conditions. Speed was initially very good but did not measure it.
3.       After Xmas I set up the BT Home Hub and ran a speed test - the profile was 2.5MBit/s. I was disappointed to get less than 3Mbit/s which is needed for BBC iplayer HD.
ADSL line status
Connection information
Line state Connected
Connection time 0 days, 2:26:57 ------> 6th January 2011
Downstream 2,268 Kbps
Upstream 440 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI 0/38
Type PPPoA
Modulation ITU-T G.992.5 ---à this apparently means ADSL2+
Latency type Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up) 15.7 dB / 31.9 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up) 27.0 dB / 9.7 dB
Output power (Down/Up) 0.0 dBm / 12.7 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local) 22
Loss of Signal (Local) 3
Loss of Power (Local) 0
FEC Errors (Down/Up) 6512 / 0
CRC Errors (Down/Up) 0 / 2147480000
HEC Errors (Down/Up) nil / 0
Error Seconds (Local) 2
4.       As part of the “slow speed wizard” I looked into getting the accelerator plate for my NTE5 split face master socket available for postage only (£1.20) but the web form advised me that if I proceeded with this order the broadband contract would automatically be extended by 12 months. I checked my BT internet account and was surprised to find an email (23rd Dec 2010) advising me that as an Option *1* customer I was in danger of exceeding my usage allowance – which surprised me as I am definitely Option 3. I wondered if I had had the speed throttled. Therefore phoned BT accounts who said the email was a mistake - I am Option 3, also said that accelerator plate was unlikely to make a difference.
5.       I contacted the BT call centre who talked me through various options. Plugging the hub direct into the master socket made no difference. They also ran a line test and said the line was fine.
6.       I therefore browsed the community care forum and find that disappointing speeds are not uncommon. One of the threads mentioned disconnecting the bell wire on the extensions. I follow this advice and removed line 3 on all extensions and then checked the ADSL status on the hub.
ADSL line status
Connection information
Line state Connected
Connection time 0 days, 6:33:45 10th January 2011
Downstream 2,272 Kbps
Upstream 888 Kbps
ADSL settings
VPI/VCI 0/38
Type PPPoA
Modulation ITU-T G.992.5
Latency type Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up) 31.8 dB / 14.4 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up) 27.0 dB / 9.7 dB
Output power (Down/Up) 0.0 dBm / 12.3 dBm
Loss of Framing (Local) 0
Loss of Signal (Local) 0
Loss of Power (Local) 0
FEC Errors (Down/Up) 0 / 0
CRC Errors (Down/Up) 0 / 2147480000
HEC Errors (Down/Up) nil / 0
Error Seconds (Local) 0
7.       This had a dramatic improvement on Upstream speed – and a big change to the noise margin Noise margin which had been (Down/Up) 15.7 dB / 31.9 dB and is now Noise margin (Down/Up) 31.8 dB / 14.4 dB. It did not improve the download speed.
8.       In the following days the BT hub has not been particularly stable with some intermittent loss of wireless connectivity every few hours. Examining the event log I was a bit disconcerted to see alterations to firewall settings had happened (which I hadn’t made) and resets which I am pretty certain I hadn’t made – and a userid login with a name like TR69. Perhaps these are occasioned by the BT speedtester? To be fair I had reset and powered off the hub a number of times in attempt to sort out this problems.
9.       I have switched to a Netgear DG83GT (V1.03.23) for the time being until I have what I can regard as a reasonably fast stabile connection. At the time of writing this has been stable for 20 hours DownStream Connection Speed 2268 kbps UpStream Connection Speed 888 kbps.As stated earlier I would like downstream to be faster.
The perceived wisdom on the forum seems to be that several days of complete stability are required if there is to be any improvement on speed.
10.   If a moderator or anyone with the relevant experience reads this I would be very grateful for answers to the follow questions:
A.      Is the change in the Noise Margin parameter a good thing or a bad thing?
B.      Are the line attenuation figures acceptable for a distance of under 1.5kilometres to the exchange?
C.      Should I be able in theory to get a faster speed i.e. downstream 3Mbit/s?
D.      From the forum it seems to take several days for speed adjustments to be effected or to take effect – is this a technical issue or a policy issue?
Many thanks.
Robert
Solved!
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Good Morning - it is now 6 days since this posting. During this time there have been 2 resets of the adsl line
Fri, 2011-01-14 03:28:43 - LCP down.
Fri, 2011-01-14 03:28:54 - Initialize LCP.
Fri, 2011-01-14 03:28:54 - LCP is allowed to come up.
Fri, 2011-01-14 03:28:54 - CHAP authentication success
and
Sun, 2011-01-16 16:37:26 - LCP down.
Sun, 2011-01-16 16:37:36 - Initialize LCP.
Sun, 2011-01-16 16:37:36 - LCP is allowed to come up.
Sun, 2011-01-16 16:37:36 - CHAP authentication success
These were not initiated by me - and since noise margins and sync speeds changed as a consequence can I assume that this is evidence of the adaptive process working?
Secondly, as you can see, the noise ratio has vastly improved as have the upstream and downstream sync speeds
        System Up Time 157:54:52
      ADSL Link          Downstream          Upstream
      Connection Speed           11199 kbps           1091 kbps
      Line Attenuation           27.0 db           9.9 db
      Noise Margin           14.8 db           9.2 db
BUT from the BT speedtester, as shown below I seem to be stuck in a banded IP profile of 1750/1091 which is very different from the downstream sync speeds of 11199 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM)
Can BT staff take action to alter this? If they can how do I contact them?
Regards,
Robert
18th Jan 2010
Download Speed    1288 Kbps
0 Kbps   2000 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
Download speedachieved during the test was - 1288 Kbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speedsis 800-2000 Kbps.
Additional Information:
Your DSL Connection Rate :11199 Kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 1091 Kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP Profile for your line is - 1750 Kbps
The throughput of Best Efforts (BE) classes achieved during the test is - 2.28:10.77:87.0 (SBE:NBEBE)
These figures represent the ratio while sententiously passing Sub BE, Normal BE and Priority BE marked traffic.
The results of this test will vary depending on the way your ISP has decided to use these traffic classes.
2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
Upload Speed       896 Kbps
0 Kbps   1091 Kbps
Max Achievable Speed
>Upload speed achieved during the test was - 896 Kbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 1091 Kbps

Is it that underpowered?

I just bought this computer. My old pavillion was giving me fits and the budget was tight, so I chose a bottom of the line machine. I do Microsoft Office, Quickbooks, Family Tree Maker, etc. I don't do any gaming or anything that would require a particularly fast computer.
I picked up some malware before I could even download the updates from Microsoft (they wouldn't start). I can't rmember the name, but it was a browser hijacker. I think I picked it up when I downloaded Firefox. The guy who works for me uninstalled the malware and removed it from Explorer and Chrome and just deleted Firefox. He says there is no sign of it.
The computer runs slower than molasses in the winter time, even with just Office open. He says it's only 1.8 mhz, so accepts the slowness as just the way it is (he's a computer geek and wanted me to buy a more expensive machine). I can't believe HP would sell a machine that would be that slow. I think maybe that malware is still there. I have run a full scan with AVG and nothing shows up.
Two questions: Could it really be that slow? and how do I confirm the malware is gone?
Another thing that should probably be on another fourm; There is this stupid thing that comes up everytime you click to open a file. It asks you what program you want to open it with. You would think if it's a Word file, it would open with Word, etc. But it asks you if you want to open a Word file with Chrome, Word, Explorer and something else. How do you get that off there?
choco

HERE is the spec page for that unit. It is a budget PC and may preform at a disappointing speed.
CPU speed: 1.4 GHz
CPU cores: 2
It really is not much of a unit but will still work.. About the same as a HP mini tablet
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ADSL to FTTC

After being with SKY ADSL for years, I had become increasly frustrated with intermittent speed and connectivity problems combined with Sky advisors telling me the problem was in our house when logically that seemed unlikely to me.A few weeks ago I honestly confessed to an advisor, I was considering moving back to BT and this lead them to selling me the idea of FTTC and weakly I went along with that. Then I read the forum about disappointing speeds and poor wirless performance (we already suffered from poor reception in some areas of the house) and I began regretting having signed up and wasn't looking forward to the changeover.Now FTTC has been in for a week and so far it has been far more stable than our ADSL service, speed at 34 mbs is nearly what we were promised (difference probably explained by the fact that the router is not connected to the master socket).The wireless coverage may not be quite as good as the ADSL router but if so the extra speed more than compensates for that. The nature of forums leads to negative views, and I'm sure that is an accurate reflection of their experience, but thought I put my experience on the board for a bit of balance as I suspect if I had read the forum, before agreeing to upgrade, I won't have preceded.

Hi Denise I get nowhere near my Ethernet speed on my wireless connection. As I stated I get 34mb on my ethernet which I use when speed is particularly important. Where I'm sitting now, watching TV and browsing, is a couple of rooms away from the router (going through one brick wall) and when I have checked the speed it has been between 10 and 18mb which of course is much better than I was getting on ADSL (which was about 7mb on Ethernet and perhaps averaging 4mb on wireless). For what it's worth my wife who relies solely on the wireless connection for her laptop doesn't use the internal laptop wifi facility but uses an external USB wifi connection with an extended USB lead which gives her more flexibility in getting a better signal.Good luck on Tuesday, I got a text message from Sky to say the change had taken place which was about 40 minutes after the ADSL went off (no notice given for that).

Real Player Zen Micro Transfer Quest

I have some files I purchased a number of years ago via Real Player. They have an .rax extension and when I try and transfer them to the Micro I get an incompatable format message. I was just wondering if anybody knows a way to transfer these files to the Micro. Thanks for any help.
Phil

stemshady wrote:Just got my micro yesterday. I?m very pleased with the player. I previously had the IAudio M3. It was a decent player but the display on the remote drove me crazy and I was looking for something a little smaller. Anyways I must say that I?m disappointed with the Creative software. I find it very clunky. I had written syncing software for the IAudio , unfortunately the Zen Micro uses a proprietary driver that it uses to recognize the player. I?m guessing I will be able to use the SDK from Windows Media Player 0 to recognize the device but what a pain. It should just be recognized as a USB storage device. Anyways my real problem is that the transfer speed seems very slow to me. I?ve tried Windows Media Player, Creative MediaSource Organizer, and the Zen Explorer and all of them have disappointing speeds. Has anyone else noticed this? I?m running with firmware .02.05.
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Zen Micro Transfer Spe

Just got my micro yesterday. I?m very pleased with the player. I previously had the IAudio M3. It was a decent player but the display on the remote drove me crazy and I was looking for something a little smaller. Anyways I must say that I?m disappointed with the Creative software. I find it very clunky. I had written syncing software for the IAudio , unfortunately the Zen Micro uses a proprietary driver that it uses to recognize the player. I?m guessing I will be able to use the SDK from Windows Media Player 0 to recognize the device but what a pain. It should just be recognized as a USB storage device.
Anyways my real problem is that the transfer speed seems very slow to me. I?ve tried Windows Media Player, Creative MediaSource Organizer, and the Zen Explorer and all of them have disappointing speeds. Has anyone else noticed this? I?m running with firmware .02.05.

stemshady wrote:Just got my micro yesterday. I?m very pleased with the player. I previously had the IAudio M3. It was a decent player but the display on the remote drove me crazy and I was looking for something a little smaller. Anyways I must say that I?m disappointed with the Creative software. I find it very clunky. I had written syncing software for the IAudio , unfortunately the Zen Micro uses a proprietary driver that it uses to recognize the player. I?m guessing I will be able to use the SDK from Windows Media Player 0 to recognize the device but what a pain. It should just be recognized as a USB storage device. Anyways my real problem is that the transfer speed seems very slow to me. I?ve tried Windows Media Player, Creative MediaSource Organizer, and the Zen Explorer and all of them have disappointing speeds. Has anyone else noticed this? I?m running with firmware .02.05.
The transfer speeds should be much faster if you use one of the MTP firmwares (2.xx). Also, are you using USB 2.0?

Slow & erratic speeds - very disappointed in switch to FiOS so far

I finally decided to try out FiOS and switched from Optimum 2 days ago. I have been running some speed tests to see if everything is working as it should and came back with poor results.
I am paying for 50/25 and am typically getting between 20-40 Mbps download (with 1 exception which I will get to later). I have run speed tests on speedtest.net and other sites, always choosing nearby servers. My results have been very erratic. On Optimum I consistently got high 50's d/l all the time on all servers. On FiOS, I often get as low as 6-8 Mbps download. A lot of times my d/l speed is MUCH less than my upload speed (for example: 8 down and 26 up).
However, if I choose to test to the optimum online server, I consistently get high 50's download and high 20's upload, which is what I expect. Not sure what's going on here - it's almost as though Optimum is begging me to come back - which I will do unless this gets solved.
Just spent an hour with tech support. Did all the usual resetting/rebooting stuff, ran the optimizer, checked RWIN (although I'm on Win 7 which makes this moot), etc. Now they want to send a tech out at the end of the week b/c they think it could be something with the house wiring. I'm not sure I agree, since I AM getting full speed when I test to the optimum.com server.
Oh - and ping is a lot higher. Seeing 30-60ms vs 10ms on Optimum.
Any ieas on what the problems could be? Came in with high hopes and getting disappointed quickly. 28 days before I have to decide to keep or toss...

You say "of course," but you didn't mention wired or wifi in either of your earlier posts and similar problems are often related to wifi vagaries. Anyway....
It sounds like we may be in the same area. I also had Optimum once-upon-a-time and, for whatever it's worth, since switching to FiOS I've found my speeds to be much more consistent than they were with OOL.
Yes...there is some variation from speed test server to server but I would suggest that is the nature of the Internet, and specific servers, and not a Verizon problem.
I usually test with speedtest.net and let it pick the server with the lowest ping. That is indeed Optimum's New York server at times. Other times it chooses other servers in the NY area. In every case, though, I always get at least the 75/35 speeds I'm paying for.
It sounds to me like what you're seeing could be saturation at certain speed tests servers in the evening. What I would suggest you do, for a real world test, is find a file server that will saturate your bandwidth and try it in the evening. Something like a file server from Microsoft, or Corel, etc. etc. If I do that, and measure my speed with DU Meter, I always get the same download speed, regardless of the time of day. Here's one example:
I can also run the same test uploading to a couple of servers I have available, and I get the same real world results.
If you're still not satisfied that you're getting what you're paying for from Verizon, I'm sure OOL will be happy to have you back. That's the beauty of competition.

Disappointing WRT610N Gigabit Ethernet speed

I'm very disappointed with the wired Gigabit speed on this WRT610N router. I've got three high end Gigabit capable computers connected to the router via the wired interfaces and the best speed I can get is from any system to another is 38% of Gigabit maximum (~46 MBytes/s). I've tried numerous protocols (SMB, FTP, SSH) all with about the same results. This must be some hardware limit of the router. Is there any way to increase this speed? I really don't want to buy another router just to get good quality ethernet speeds.
PS: All cables are quality CAT6.
TIA,
Vidmo
Message Edited by Vidmo on 10-12-2008 09:40 AM

the ethernet switch BCM53115 is used on the wrt610N
this same switch is also used on the wrt320N router.
The hardware does support jumbo frames, however linksys did not enabled this in the firmware's.
pdf switch
http://www.dutchmans.serverthuis.nl/BCM53115.pdf
to bad we have to complane that jumbo frames is not enabled.

SO disappointed in MacbookPro Speeds

After years of being a dell loyalist I upgraded to a retina MacBook Pro yesterday (the 8gb ram, 250ssd version). After all the hype I've read, I could not be more disappointed in the speed of the product I've received. It takes ~30 seconds for the system to boot, and 15 for it to shut down. I can live with the shut down time, but 30 seconds to boot is ridiculous. My sata hd, 4gb ram, 2.3 ghz boots at about that speed, there's no reason for anything with an ssd to boot this slowly. What gives?

Sounds as if you got a lemon. You have 14 days in which to return the machine for an exchange or refund. If I were you, I would exchange it and see if the new machine suffers the same problems (It really shouldn't).
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Disappointing MSI GTX 660 TF3 clock speeds / voltage, not on par with others

Hi,
I wanted to ask why is there suck a disperency between my GTX 660 TF3 speeds/voltage compared to other people.
My max boost clock is 1123.5 whereas most references i found are above 1150/60+ in average
My max voltage under full load in GPU-Z is 1.162 whereas others got 1.175
Is it linked to my poor ASIC of 68.8% ?
Currently disappointed because i thought that by buying an MSI card (premium priced in my country) i would got better clocks or at least clocks in the average range of other users. I guess i'm just unlucky, but being a bit burnt now, i think i'll pass and try another brand next time.
That said, is it normal that my card doesnt even reach a voltage of 1.175 under full load ???
Thanks in advance for your reply, and merry christmas anyways.

Quote from: zigzagzap on 26-December-12, 05:30:34
Thank you for the reply, but talking to me about overclock is a bit off-topic dont you think?
not really as the boost clock is an automatic overclock (the boost clock is down to the GPU as well, some will hit the target of 1150MHz some wont)!
Quote from: zigzagzap on 26-December-12, 05:30:34
Under stock presets (no-overclock-at-all), all of them have cards that got a 1.175 voltage under full load whereas mine is only 1.162
Even when you look at reviews on internet, you can see that they list 1.175v as STOCK voltages under full load in their default specs sheet for that MSI card.
All in all, gotta ask again, is it normal for my card to not run at 1.175v on stock presets? Yes/no?
like i said it depends on the individual GPU! most will run at 1.175V under load normally but some wont as its very random as no 2 are identical and the voltage the core asks for is very random from sample core to sample core!
its all luck of the draw..... <--- seen some referance cards that will out perform full custom ones.
if you not satisfied >>How to contact MSI.<< contact them and if you wan't a replacement then they will tell you how to go about it! <--- no expected voltages or clock speeds are ever fully garenteed as the newer GPU's are all over the place.

I am extremely disappointed with my imac's speed. should i upgrade the RAM?

I bought this lovely machine so that when i come back home, i can push aside my 12" toshiba work laptop and enjoy working on my music and photos and internet browsing on the imac.
the music (ipod +itunes) and browsing works great, but as soon as i get onto iphoto (v5.0.4), it just takes years to get anything done and sometimes it just closes down on me. i have times that colourful round ball rotaing at times for over 40 minutes! i have just 8,000 photos and i just cannot use iphoto at all. also, i'm not all that savvy (or inclined) to try and figure out other softwares - i just assumed that apple's own software and hardware would combine really well in an application that it is really well known for (digital imaging).
so do you reckon it's a hardware issue (RAM or something like that) or that iphoto isn't upto the task? i would use another software for organising the photos if necessary, but i do quite like the way in which iphoto does the organising - when it works.
hope someone out there has some ideas for me!
cheers

Thank you all for the replies! I'm going to work through what each of you have suggested and see how much it helps. The 40 minutes of processing time is not an exaggeration. In fact, it sometimes takes longer than that - but I think it's hanging - so i've forcibly shut down the application.
Al - cheers for your immediate tips - they have certainly helped. I disallowed other shared libraries, dropped the shadow and reduced the photo size to approximately a small thumbnail and the speed has most certainly improved! it still takes a few minutes every now and then, but it's decidedly better.
Dan - I'll try Onyx (first i'll figure out what it is!) to clean things up, i imagine.
Jerry, thanks for the tip on iphoto buddy. i'll certainly try it when i have the time. it'll also help me keep the photos i don't want everyone to see aside, i imagine!
And Rod - these are all jpegs from my NikonD70, i haven't started shooting RAW as yet, as i have to figure out how to process those first! I'll probably upgrade the RAM to 2gigs and to ilife'06 in the next week or two. I'll go through the routine that you suggested for checking for directory corruption as well.
Thanks a lot to all of you! i'm sure i'll be back on track very soon!
cheers,
sidlal

Speed disappointment

I talked my sister into getting a iMac 24" 2.16GHz. (Her first Mac)
After showing her how to use it, I decided to do a test to see how much speed I would gain if I got one.
I brought along a copy of an iMovie/iDVD project on a FW disk and copied the whole thing to the HD on her new Mac.
I then tested the speed of rendering a 2 hour video (36 gig iMovie project) which my Mac takes around 6 hours to compress and encode before it begins to burn the DVD.
I was looking for a HUGE speed boost that would convince me to shell out the $2000.00 to get one for myself.
Using her computer, I would only save about 30 minutes.
I guess for $500.00 more I could get a MacPro which has Two 2.66GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon “Woodcrest” processors, but would I see any REAL increase in speed?

.. Can't,,, my projects are usually HUGE and require "Best Quality" setting which does not 'pre-render' unless I am not understanding what you mean. ..
QT/Full Quality, yepp, that's what I meant.. though, iDVD allows only a max. of 120min, the file couldn't be larger than 26GB... usual advice for video makers: more harddrive space, much more hdd space, moooooore...
as said. if you hand-over a complex iM project with lots of different files and formats, you increase the encoding time; and on my German board, I read the advice to avoid mp3 in iM projects, cause those could slow down iDVD dramatically... (one guy converts every audio import into aiff... before usage...) ...
but....
PC-guys LOVE to discuss 'speed', I never ever had any concerns about speed on my Mac..
as long as you don't render a CGI hairy KingKong or calculate the weather in the year 2020, speed is - imho - no criteria... as you said: a Mac product looks better, more professional, 'feels' better...
those 'nerds', watching their activity meters, are faster, so what - but what do they CREATE faster...? benchmarks... ??
give'em a break with those:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamacads2/work480x376.mov
http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/getamac/betterresults_480x376.mov
aaand 'Mac'/Justin Long is partner of Bruce Willis in http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337978/ , Yippee Ki Yay M.. ;))

Very Slow Time Capsule WiFi Speeds - Disappointing

Hi,
I've read a lot about this in the TC posts, but have yet to see a solution. The wireless speeds on my 1TB TC is solidly slower than my old Linksys router. Whereas my Linksys can manage speeds greater than 12,000kb/s, the TC can only manage around 6 max. Most of the time, it's much slower. I've disabled backups, and nothing is different other than removing the Linksys, and replacing it with the TC. Needless to say, this is very troubling. And yes, I've applied the recent airport update to my mac, and the system update to the TC.
Has anyone found a solution for this, and if not, has Apple confirmed this as an issue.
Help!

OK, I'm not sure about this, it's just speculation, but I have an idea. The problem with AEBS, and why it couldn't be used to backup to USB drives reliably, is that the data being sent there was not acknowledged, i.e. there was no receipt from Airport saying, "I successfully received that data." I would imagine lots of wireless routers don't bother acknowledging - if the data gets lost, another request will surely get sent again. ACKs tend to slow things down - satellite cable modems even pre-acknowledge packets due to TCP's problem with ACK latency. TCP requires decent timing and ACKs to perform well. But you can't have that on a backup solution. You need to ACK the data. So the TC (and now with the firmware upgrade, AirDisk) have to ACK the data, which slows things down, which makes your wireless seem slower. Again, this is all just speculation, but I think it's a reasonable theory.

Are U disappointed with speeds on your iPhone ?

I ask because I have a Blackberry 9530 which is basically good for only talk and text. Web speeds are very slow sometimes unuseable. I'm looking to upgrade to a newer smartphone and the iPhone 4 I know would be a good option since I do a lot in Itunes. However I'm thinking I should wait for the 4G LTE iPhone 5 to come out.
However again, if users are generally happy with the speeds of the 3G network, maybe I should go ahead and get one.

The web browsing experience on blackberry is about 100x worse than the webkit based browsers on phones running iOS, Android and WebOS. Even on 3G, you'll notice a significant difference in daily browsing between the iPhone and the Storm.

Disappointed in broadband speed

Here in the middle of Salem Or, (capital po Oregon). and the speed is very slow.
http://www.speedtest.net/result/880897183.png
Other spots are the same in this area, The fastest I have measured here is maybe .5 mp up.
Other locations in other states I have measured over 1 mb...even seen as high as 1.5mb
What is wrong? It i frustrating. thanks

pretty stinky numbers.... how far are you from the tower?
when you bought this - did they say anything about what kind of connect speeds to expect?
30 days to return it?
How you tried it in other locations.??? outside your house...??? etc

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