help with dsl speed

[Steve Flynn]

On 15/10/2007, William Biggs <wv.kc8pdr at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I have 7.6mg dsl here at the house . When I look at the router it say's
> 7.6mg bu when I do a speed test I get 5.5mg any ides ?
>

Your router is reporting the sync speed to the DSLAM at the exchange.

Your speed test test the data transfer rate between you and the remote
machine. That is, the entire route between you and a machine potentially 30+
hops away. Each one of those hops may be a link which cannot saturate your
7.6 meg connection as it's also transferring data for 25,000 other
connections.

-- 
Steve
When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people
suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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