Increase Line Gain

[hollerz]

Originally posted by sk8punk151@29 May 2003 - 03:31
Ok, I know your all going to dismiss this as a fake or something to that extent, but it isnt. I know, it's not kazaa and its not windows downloader, but when I was downloading this program off of cnet.com download manager I was reaching the speeds I have said I have reached before.. This is my proof.. Say what you want, I truly don't care what you people think any more..

Your picture says Rate: 35.4Kbits/sec.

8 bits in a byte.

35.4Kbits = 4.425KBytes

4.425KBytes = Normal 56k speeds.

You = Proved wrong

[hollerz]

Originally posted by sk8punk151+30 May 2003 - 22:29--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (sk8punk151 @ 30 May 2003 - 22:29)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin--ozamosi@30 May 2003 - 18:06
you had downloaded about 360k, right? as people have previously stated, in the beginning the speeds seems to be much higher than they are. and we dont know those speeds comes form a 56k connection...

360 k is not the begining dude.. It took like 30 seconds to get that far.. and if you look at the bar, its almost half done.. [/b][/quote]
And if you were downloading at 35.4KBytes/sec, 360k would only take 10 or so seconds.

[Natsume Atsuko]

lol Yeah, bit = byte / 8

That explains a lot, you confused bits with bytes I guess.
Happened to me once (I looked that I was downloading @ 60kbit/s and thought WTF at file downloading so slow, then a few hours later I figured out - DAMN it was BITS NOT BYTES&#33; ; Sweared and canceled the download.)

[hollerz]

yeah easy mistake, he just came on calling everyone n00bs etc. :&#092;

[Natsume Atsuko]

More attention helps&#33; One i instead of a y means a lot - 8 times difference&#33; ^_^

[AzN_Dancer]

Originally posted by sk8punk151@31 May 2003 - 07:06
This file was no different the any other .exe that I know of. And it was not compressed at all.. WTF.. IS WRONG WITH YOU GUYS.. i am not posting in here any more

You got 0wned&#33; B)

[Terminal Boredom]

The 56K thing has restrictions to it. You must be within X miles of a local hub(not sure of distance) and have a fiber link from there as well. Added to the fact that you are using the TCP/IP protocol which has error checking built in. This means that in addition to the data transfered there is also the parity bits upstream and confirmation coming back downstream. The best I&#39;ve ever had dialing in to the network at work is an actual data rate of 31k/sec. It is respectable but by no means is it the rule.

[roy]

i rang telstra tech. support here in australia and the tech. there advised me against turning up the gain, gain increase is only used for people over 6.5klms from there exchange because with distance comes loss of signal ,but for users who are within a normal range of an exchange gain increase does not help with downloads it will only serve to increase data errors/loss.he felt at 44k my data loss is about 2%.how do i know this acurate? well i connected to telstra through the hyper terminal & we ran some tests.are my speeds better? well i hav&#39;ent really noticed to much difference between 50k & 44k but i&#39;ve only just done this & only time will tell, but the tech. was also helpful enough to give me other modem comands to try other speeds.
so there you go the charge on the bill for line rental & services has finally been put to use.(lol)

[hondarvf400]

hi, i have got a 56k modem, and my best download speed is about 5-5.5kb, my uncle works for BT and he told me that if you get the gain turned all the way up it should help you (not sure but i can only guess it would improve it by a little and take it to 6. something i think) but by doing this it does some thing to the phone line so if you only have one line when you use the phone the people you are talking to will have strange voice`s or that want sound normal.

[ColinGrigson]

Back in my 56k days I tried this with BT in the UK and it worked well. My previous connection speeds ranged from 28.8Kbs to about 40Kbs. Once the gain was turned up I averaged connection speed of 48Kbs.

It&#39;s not necessarily to do with distance from the exchange (although that certainly plays a part) but line quality. Old kit / dodgy cabling = loss of signal.

Another tip is to ensure your modem is connected to the main phone socket, not an extension, and to not have a cordless (analogue or digital I think) phone connected at the same time.

Hope this helps someone...