Hello there persons.
Right...coz I am an ADSL Engineer, I know stuff.
The stuff wot I knows is this.
Friday saw the release of a new ADSL Product, which should be available to all of you, getting your Fatpipe over a BT Phone line.
ADSL Max...represents "new thinking" from the boffins at a well know Telecoms provider.
If you get on to your service providers, some may have links advertising it (I think Pipex have).
What it is, is this.
A Router will be plopped in your house, and over 10 days it has a free rein over your bandwidth...after 10 days, it sets your line up at teh maximum reliable rate, and continues at that speed.
So..those of you who are on .5, 1, or 2 Megabit services, depending on your line quality...could be getting up to 8Meg...yup...8 Meg.
Obviously, teh maximum rate is dependent on you living on an exchange, or nigh on...but..most people should be able to get 4meg.
For anyone who knows anything about teh technical side....you will know, that to maintain a circuit, you need a good Signal to Noise Ratio (Margin), you can see this by looking into your Router...its the downstream side you look at, but you get two readings..one is Loop Attenuation, teh other is SNR.
The Attenuation is basicaly your line length from teh exchange and is roughly 10dB per Km, an example would be 54dB (meaning your maximum at teh moment would be 1Meg)..and teh lower teh better, the faster you can go.
SNR, is teh quality of teh circuit..teh higher teh better..so around 20dB is good.
Now...the boffins have decided, that on ADSL Max, a good SNR would be 3dB...barmy I kinow, but...there you have it.
Also, they use something called interleaving,..which means that if your line has some grief..any lost packets are plopped back in, as if they never went missing...and you notice jack.
Oh...teh other good bit, is that unlike current circuits, teh Upstream is also improved..so...rather than teh 256k at teh moment...its can go upto around 800k...which is nice.
Anyway...thought I would let you guys know so you can start badgering your SP's for it.
Right...coz I am an ADSL Engineer, I know stuff.
The stuff wot I knows is this.
Friday saw the release of a new ADSL Product, which should be available to all of you, getting your Fatpipe over a BT Phone line.
ADSL Max...represents "new thinking" from the boffins at a well know Telecoms provider.
If you get on to your service providers, some may have links advertising it (I think Pipex have).
What it is, is this.
A Router will be plopped in your house, and over 10 days it has a free rein over your bandwidth...after 10 days, it sets your line up at teh maximum reliable rate, and continues at that speed.
So..those of you who are on .5, 1, or 2 Megabit services, depending on your line quality...could be getting up to 8Meg...yup...8 Meg.
Obviously, teh maximum rate is dependent on you living on an exchange, or nigh on...but..most people should be able to get 4meg.
For anyone who knows anything about teh technical side....you will know, that to maintain a circuit, you need a good Signal to Noise Ratio (Margin), you can see this by looking into your Router...its the downstream side you look at, but you get two readings..one is Loop Attenuation, teh other is SNR.
The Attenuation is basicaly your line length from teh exchange and is roughly 10dB per Km, an example would be 54dB (meaning your maximum at teh moment would be 1Meg)..and teh lower teh better, the faster you can go.
SNR, is teh quality of teh circuit..teh higher teh better..so around 20dB is good.
Now...the boffins have decided, that on ADSL Max, a good SNR would be 3dB...barmy I kinow, but...there you have it.
Also, they use something called interleaving,..which means that if your line has some grief..any lost packets are plopped back in, as if they never went missing...and you notice jack.
Oh...teh other good bit, is that unlike current circuits, teh Upstream is also improved..so...rather than teh 256k at teh moment...its can go upto around 800k...which is nice.
Anyway...thought I would let you guys know so you can start badgering your SP's for it.
