My broadband speed – with BT (btconnect.com) – has never been better than 1.9 Mbps. More typical is today’s figure of 1.4 Mbps download / 342 kbps upload. I put this down to distance from the exchange.
However, I recently learnt that two neighbours were getting speeds in excess of 5 Mbps. And another neighbour recently contacted the BT home forum regarding poor broadband speed. The upshot was that one of the moderators took up the case, an engineer called, made a few changes and, hey presto, speed up from 1 Mbps or so to no less than 6.5 Mbps!
As I am at a similar distance from the exchange, I’m wondering whether a similar improvment can be achieved for me.
My router is a Draytek Vigor 2800VG
Router stats
| Online Status |
| System Status | System Uptime: 133:7:29 |
| LAN Status | Primary DNS: | 217.32.171.22 | Secondary DNS: | 213.120.234.6 | | IP Address | TX Packets | RX Packets | | | | | 192.168.1.1 | 8210 | 0 | | | |
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| WAN Status | GW IP Addr: | 217.47.251.58 |
| | Mode | IP Address | TX Packets | TX Rate | RX Packets | RX Rate | Up Time | | PPPoA | 81.155.75.184 | 111802 | 50 | 133336 | 27 | 44:52:19 |
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| ADSL Information (ADSL Firmware Version: E.38.2.23 ) |
| ATM Statistics | TX Blocks | RX Blocks | Corrected Blocks | Uncorrected Blocks | | | 538446 | 2412466 | 12218 | 787 |
| | ADSL Status | Mode | State | Up Speed | Down Speed | SNR Margin | Loop Att. | | | G.DMT | SHOWTIME | 448000 | 1856000 | 14.0 | 37.0 |
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