DSL Connection speed...Who or what do I trust?

[ignaiusp]

I have been using Ameritech DSL for the last few months. I never had connection problems, but I had to tweak MTU/RWIN to get reasonable download speed. I think I have tried all the tweaks I can think of. I have tested bandwidth with DSLReports/Tools.. . MSN, CNet and 2Wire.com. I don't see anything beyond 450Kbps. I am using Download Accelerator and when I download I hit 1MB once in a while. Is this the 'normal' connection for 768/128 DSL? I know the max download they gurantee is 768Kbps that does not mean I am going to get 768 all the time. I went to a @Home cable demo and I ran some of the same bandwidth test and they were consistantly above 1.5meg. Since there are not too many @home connections in tghat area I expected it to be fast.Is there a downloadable tool that will always display bandwidth.
Thanks and appreciate comments or suggestions.

[Kip Patterson]

The starting point for testing is uploading/downloading from a site at your ISP to eliminate all the variables of the Internet. MSN is absolutely the worst, Microsoft having announced that the test is not right.

At http://www.ins.com/software/index.asp you can download net medic which will show the actual rate of your connection. Looks like you are getting pretty goood results as is.

Good luck.

[quickfoot]

The fastest download you should get with a 768 kbps connection is about 90 Kbps (768/8).

In my experience patches don't speed things up a great deal because DSL caps you at your connection speed.

The most benefit I've seen using tweaks is with cable modems.

[glc1]

W/DSL, the highest you can get is about 85% of your connection rate due to transmission overhead. So, the max you will see is ~80KBps. If your having trouble reaching your max, then the SG reg patches (http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_patches.shtml) may help you out.

[quickfoot]

The way my ISP got around this was they gave me a slightly higher connection than 512.

I was sold a 512 kbps connection but was connected at about 600 kbps so I had about 512 kbps available to me.

[rickabilities]

i have a 648kps DSL service. I normally get around 35-50KB/s downloads speed.

[glc1]

Originally posted by rickabilities:
i have a 648kps DSL service. I normally get around 35-50KB/s downloads speed.You should be close to 70KBps. Have you tried the appropriate SG reg patch (http://www.speedguide.net/Cable_modems/cable_patches.shtml)?

[wee96]

You can get @home in Flint now, get it.

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[ignaiusp]

Originally posted by wee96:
You can get @home in Flint now, get it.



Not that lucky. I was at their promo and my area was out. I will stick with DSL for a while.