On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:42:58PM +0100, Nick Daniels wrote:
The line;
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream Connection Speed 4896 kbps 448 kbps
Does that mean my line is capable of that, because I have never had over 1Mb?
Erm, aiui you should get at least 2 megs a second with that, (BT always round down the actual speed from what you should be able to get) whether your isp is then fiddling with that even more I don't know. My own experience with dsl max was a bit disappointing in that BT guesstimated i'd get 6-8Mb but in reality I ended up with the line syncing at around 1.5Mb but because of the way they rounded down I had 1Mb.
I have only found things improve with the later netgear firmwares, on my v2 dg834 it currently says that the adsl firmware is version 6.something-or-other and it seems much better reliability wise than any of the previous relases (although all but the very first have been "ok"). I've deployed about 20-30 dg834 v2's over the past couple of years and had some problems with the very early firmwares hence why I'd suggest you look at upgrading it, it's unlikely to make things worse anyhow.
Adam