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tamarok
join:2003-01-30
Richmond, VA

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i saw that cavtel raised the speed up to 4meg/1meg on the website. i am 12k feet away so they say i cant get it over 8kfeet...everything i read says radsl can go up to 18k ft so what is the deal here? and now they say my max speed at 12k feet is only 512??? i had a tech come out and check things and he found nothing wrong, but cavtel syas im running at 800k on their end, but all my speed tests show 4-400k

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Salisbury, MD

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said by tamarok:
i saw that cavtel raised the speed up to 4meg/1meg on the website. i am 12k feet away so they say i cant get it over 8kfeet...everything i read says radsl can go up to 18k ft so what is the deal here? and now they say my max speed at 12k feet is only 512??? i had a tech come out and check things and he found nothing wrong, but cavtel syas im running at 800k on their end, but all my speed tests show 4-400k

»Unlimited upto 4mbit/1mbit residential plan
[text was edited by author 2003-11-06 13:19:03]
tamarok
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Richmond, VA

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what was the purpose of that post?

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to get you to read the other forum explaining this
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to add to it a little more... the radsl equipment is a whole lot more expensive than the regular reachdsl equipment that all the Co's have. Im not sure that every CO that has cavalier even has the radsl dslams in them. I just also wanted to clear something up about the data rates with the paradyne 6350's. I know it says they can do 1mbit but the highest they go is 960k. Hence the 960/960 plans. To paradyne thats 1mbit.

TRANSMISSION SPEED
• 8312/8314 Line Cards:
128 Kbps to 960 Kbps in 64 Kbps
increments:
- 128K, 192K, 256K, 320K, 384K,
448K, 512K, 576K, 640K, 704K
and 768K, 832K, 896K, 960K
• 6310: 128 Kbps to 768 Kbps
• 6350/6351: 128 Kbps to 960 Kbps
• Speeds are autorate or selectable
for symmetric or asymmetric
operation. Actual speeds vary by
loop length and quality.

Incase your wondering where I pulled this info from its listed on the reachdsl documents.

»www.paradyne.com/pdf_cen ··· slds.pdf
tamarok
join:2003-01-30
Richmond, VA

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well according to cavtel now, the fastest speed i can get is 512 since im 12000 feet away. and i was reading more about radsl and it says its not as good as adsl/sdsl and i just spoke with a tech about it and he says radsl just wont work over 8000 feet, so im really confused now. i thought 768 was the max speed for the 6350...anyways the tech says he is seeing a bunch of errors on my line and is sending someone out tomorrow to check some things and replace the modem. i have seen the new modem, it is tiny and black, the last tech had one but i didnt get the make or model number. my buddy has comcast and he called cavtel today and they told him he is 16800 feet away and the max speed he can get is 2meg down and 768 up....so why is he getting much faster speed than me when i am closer?

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Salisbury, MD

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If you switch to verizon and your under 12k you can get 1.5/128. Your phone lines must be really bad to be only training at 512k. And about your friend getting 2mbit/768, their is no way. Im only provisioned for 960/960 and im 11k.
I would just give up the radsl idea. Maybe once cavalier upgrades to adsl2 you will have a better line. If you want faster goto comcast. But it wont be $25/month.
[text was edited by author 2003-11-06 15:57:36]
tamarok
join:2003-01-30
Richmond, VA

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im not going back to cable, had it b4 and it sucked and it will cost me about 55 a month so forget it. verizon just upped the distance for radsl to 14k feet..so maybe cavtel will do it soon. they are sending me a new modem..doubt it will help but its worth a shot. the tech was out here the other day checking for problems they saw on the line, but as usual when the tech was here everything is perfect.

forgot to say that they raised my speed back up to 960 so im testing at 700/500 not as good as i used to be but better than it has been lately