Smith6612
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united state
 ·Dish Network
 ·Verizon Online DSL
·FrontierNet Intern..
4 edits | Re: Paying for 780kbs getting 70? Your connection looks fine by the looks of things. Proper line sync for ADSL2+ and the tweak tester is showing 100% transfer efficency, with stable pings and your provided transfer speed. What you're probably doing is mixing up Kilobits and Kilobytes. Kilobits is what a line speed is measured in. When Verizon sells their DSL service or even any ISP, or when people talk about data throughput, it's measured in Kilobits (Kbps). The transfer rate that many people will see is Kilobytes (KB/s). To find out if you are getting your full speed, simply take the speed that your downloader is showing and multiply it by 8, and that'll give you the speed in Kilobits. It's the reverse when trying to take Kilobits and finding how many Kilobytes that will reach. To do that, just take the amount of kilobits you're seeing and divide that number by 8, and there's your Kilobyte per second speed.
If you are looking for some lower pings, you can visit the Verizon Direct forum on this site and request FastPath, since you have plenty of margin to support it. FastPath is completely free as it's only a line change. Don't know why with such good margins Verizon placed you on Interleaved mode. It'll cut the latency down which is great if you play real time online gaming. Also, if you're paying the current price for DSL service, you can get your line upgraded to 1Mbps/386kbps like I've done. I made a topic on such an upgrade on this site which you can find below.
»Upgrade from 768kbps/128kbps to 1Mbps/386kbps? |
