Four days ahead of time, the ADSL has been activated at my new house. I’ve been migrated to a different network operator (I used to be on the Tiscali network, now on BBNed) and the line has been “opened”. Distance to the exchange seems to have quite an effect, I’m connected at 5472 kbps downstream and 928 kbps upstream. According to http://pcdb.bbned.nl/, I’m 1.6km from the exchange. A rough calculation on my downstream attenuation of 46db, yields an estimated distance of 3.3km. I’ll sort this out later to make sure that it’s just the distance working me over, and not some misconfiguration somewhere.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m really very appreciative of my prodigal link. Thanks to the generosity of the TU Delft, my gracious employer, it’s costing me the grand total of 5 euro-pesos per month, so I’m really not going to complain.
I have to go now, there are ZILLIONS of new torrents that need my love and attention.
5 Comments to “Halleluja, internet!”
February 20, 2007
Just stumbled over this on my way to some torrent site: http://fremnet.net/article/216/adsl-theoretical-speed-calculator
By entering your downstream attenuation, it calculates your max theoretical up and download speeds for both ADSL and ADSL2.
February 20, 2007
Hey, you have a new house?
February 20, 2007
Yeah, we’ve moved from the picturesque Delft city centre to a new house slap-bang in the middle of suburbia, YEAH!
February 20, 2007
Only 5Mbps, pfff, I can get that in the 3rd world (-:
..well, I’d have to go hack our traffic shaping device but in theory I connect at about 16Mbps from my flat to the access point.
http://www.swimgeek.com/pics/photos/2006/2006-10-19-toys/tn/img_4949.jpg.html
February 20, 2007
Howdy Joe! That might be, but it’s going to cost you slightly more than 5 euro-pesos per month.