Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/04/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The other problem (as it is in my case and why I went with cable modem) is that your phone lines might be the culprit. It wasn't until last year that I could even get dsl in my neighborhood and I don't live in the county. As far as I understand the problem, the phone company has to add repeaters to lines that are further away from the switch. The more repeaters the faster the service. At least that is how it was explained to me. Dave On 4/13/05, Brian Reid <reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> wrote: > Most residential DSL is "Asymmetric": higher download speed than upload. > If you get "Business DSL", you can get an upload speed that is as fast as > your download speed. (You mentioned speakeasy.com; you probably meant > speakeasy.net, which is a Business DSL vendor. > > The first thing you should do is some careful measurements and > computations to find out two things: > > 1) How many bits per second are you actually achieving to pictage.com? > 2) What is the upload "sync speed" of your current DSL connection? > 3) What is the measured upload speed of your DSL connection? > > The "sync speed" is the speed at which you can send data to the phone > company central office that is at the other end of your DSL line. > > Use something like http://speedtest.dslreports.com/ to measure item (3). > > The reason you want to do these tests is to look for two possible > discrepancies: > > a) If there is a big discrepancy between items (1) and (3), then the > problem is not with your DSL connection but with pictage.com's connection, > and your spending more money on a faster connection will not help. > > b) If there is a big discrepancy between items (2) and (3), then the > problem is that the ISP delivering you service over your DSL line is > sluggish; your data is moving just fine over your DSL line but then has to > wait to be transmited from the central office to the internet backbone. > > Business-class DSL is going to cost you about $130/month, and you need to > be quite sure that it will solve your problem before you make that level > of commitment to it. > > Brian Reid > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >