Yee Haw!! I got DSL today.
Went to www.dslreports.com and ran a couple of speed tests.
One said my downstream speed was 396K and the second one said 370K. So, I'm right there just under 400K. Upstream was like, 135K, or so.

How fast is yours?

Also, the modem is Sprint (ZyXEL) 645ME-A1. It can be accessed and configured with 'telnet 192.168.1.1' . It has the PPPoE setup in the modem and can be 'Bridged' or not. (I'm not yet sure what that means exactly.)

Is there any way to tweak this up to get better performance out of it?
The guy who came out to test my line said that the line will handle upwards of 3MB transfers. So, the line itself is smokin'!!

Also, I just plugged it into my Windows 2000 machine to get set up, but I haven't yet been able to get it to work with my Smoothwall Express 2.0 machine. I'm a broadband dummy!! If I only knew what to .

Thanks...

well the first thing i will comment on regarding this is, firstly that is slow as hell, and secondly when your using dslreports for testing you should make sure that you are using a site that is remotely close to you...
so go here
and find the nearest place...
i know that was a stupid mistake i made, and i was getting results like you did, but then when i picked a place that is located on the same ISP as me a province away, i got more true results which were over 1mbit...
so double check anyways, and see if you picked a remote testing site..

Hey... that is where I went.
I used the first 3 links there. But after your post, I looked down the page and found some Texas links. I ran 3 of them and they all showed me at a little over 400K.

Actually, the Sprint service is supposed to be 512K for the price I'm paying. And the next plan is for 1.5M for a few dollars more.

But, since the guy who came out and tested the line said that the line is full speed, then I sorta assumed that the speed is being limited by the modem.
So, I was hoping I could get into its guts with that 'telnet 192.168.1.1' configuration utility and tweak it up. Of course, I may be limited at the Sprint office by my login.

well there is a "sub-type" of ADSL, which is called G-Lite ADSL which the downstream max is 1.544 Mbps and the max upstream is 0.512 Mbps ... this is more so what you (and i) are running....and i have no idea about your ISP, but maybe they did throw a cap on your line...but in the end its probably still G-Lite..
a "full rate" ADSL line has a max downstream of 8 Mbps and 1 Mbps upstream...
and seeing that neither of our numbers come close to that, i would have to say we have G-Lite ADSL...
also, by the info you supplied i can't see you having SDSL,HDSL,or VDSL, so thats why i gave the explanation i did....

Ok.. i got dsl working through my network now!!

I am downloading a big file on my slackware machine.
The mozilla download manager is telling me that it's going at about 50K/sec. The further along the file downloaded, the faster the speed, and right there at the end it showed 51.2K!
gkrellm is jumping all over the place, 18.7K, 64K, 43K, 76K, 23K.... etc.
Based on the download manager, I'd say that is closer to correct since the service I signed up for out here is supposed to be a 512K service. (I have to get my math brain out of the dust bin and rethink how the connection is 512K, while the download speed is 50K.) If I can squeeze another $15.00 a month out of my turnips, I'll see about upping that to the 1.5M service. When I signed up, that speed wasn't offered on the web page for my number. But, I know I can get it out here since that tech told me the line would do 3M!.

Interestingly, he said that since I am over 2 miles from a C.O. I am somehow getting the service on a carrier. I'll have to check and see how that works.

itsjustme says: "I have to get my math brain out of the dust bin and rethink how the connection is 512K, while the download speed is 50K."

The connection speed is reported in bps, or bits per second. The download speed is reported in Bps, or Bytes per second. With roughly 2 control bits per 8 bits of data, you can divide the reported connect speed by 10 to get the reported download speed.

hey... Resurrecting old threads, eh?

Yeah, I rediscovered the difference right after I posted that.

Regards...

I have earthlink cable and I am geting:

Down: 2.8 MB/s
Up: 380 KB/s

Get 3,6 mb/s down and 450kb/s up.Cool connection for a motel.

But not from the servers that site lists

DAMN that sux! I'm sorry my avg. is 690/128 and I'm pissed because I've asked around and alot of my friends are beating that! I was going to switch to cable and get that 5MB NICE!! but to much $$.

I have a 1536/384 plan and get about 1200/250, but it doesn't really have that much to do with your local equipment (unless it sucks, like the stupid SpeedStream that SBC gave me). Basically the distance from the CO or RT (Remote Terminal) is the biggest deciding factor, then the quality of your line. The absolute deciding factor is what the DSLAM is capped at on the local telco's side. For instance, SBC being the scum-sucking low-lifes that they are, limit my upstream to 384Kbsp, max. You cannot get a plan for more than 384Kbps, regardless of what ISP you choose.

My ISP offers much better plans in other areas, but they are provisioned on other local carriers, such as Covad (my Covad service really rocked, the ZyXel router had a 4 port switch built in and a great CLI).

2Mbit down 256k up...

peak out at 235kb/sec

I only have one thing to say to all you broadband snobs.......

......I wish mine was faster!!

that's it.... i cannot live without my Linux high speed Internet connection anymore.... i'm moving into a place where i can have that again....

- perry