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djjsin1
join:2004-05-07
Hermosa Beach, CA

djjsin1

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major problems after upgrade

Yesterday I called to upgrade my service to the 6/768 from teh 1.5/256 service. This morning, I checked it out, and i was only getting ruffly 2/445, i called them up, and since i was not at home, I was unable to trouble shoot. Now I have come home, checked the speed, and I am getting 250/475!!!! the uploads are slower then what they were before I upgraded. Even though after many day's of problems, I got the other service working, i decided to run a wire directly to the testing jack on my CPE, to make sure it wasn't the house wiring, and I get the same speed. I am now on hold for tech support. This is starting to become very rediculous.
parallax9
join:2001-05-02
Seattle, WA

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Doesn't sound like you are being very patient. Just ask for your line stats to see if it is clean enough to support the higher speed.

borborpa
Slipping Slowly Into Oblivion
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join:2002-02-20
New Cumberland, PA

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Like parallax said, your line quality probably won't support 6.0/768. Ask them what your noise margins are. Anything below 10 is questionable. 15+ is good, 20+ is great.
mjordan
join:2002-05-08
Chicago, IL

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Call them and have them run an MLT to find your actual distance.
My estimate was 9900 feet away, so I upgrade to 6.0/768 from 1.5/768 and syncing at 1.5/512. I noticed I couldn't sync higher than 2.7/512
I found out later I'm really about 14400 feet away!.
I probably wouldn't have upgraded if I had known that to begin with, but now that I've been like this for a while, the small extra bandwidth and IPs have made up for it.
Look at it this way, not too long ago that same plan was 3.0/768

Now if I could only stop losing sync randomly...