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From: lars.langer on 19 Dec 2007 17:12
Hi there,

A question:

I have a 20480/1024 (kbit/sec) ADSL line, but I can't get higher
speeds than around 8 mbit, no matter what I try. I'm running IPCOP
ver. 1.4.10 and I currently have Traffic Shaping turnd off. I had it
turned on to 20480 down and 1024 up, but then I couldn't get speeds
higher than around 2 mbit.

Does anyone have any experience with IPCOP and high speed Internet?

All the best,
Lars
From: fabian on 19 Dec 2007 17:37
lars.langer(a)gmail.com uttered these words of wisdom:
> Hi there,
>
> A question:
>
> I have a 20480/1024 (kbit/sec) ADSL line, but I can't get higher
> speeds than around 8 mbit, no matter what I try. I'm running IPCOP
> ver. 1.4.10 and I currently have Traffic Shaping turnd off. I had it
> turned on to 20480 down and 1024 up, but then I couldn't get speeds
> higher than around 2 mbit.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with IPCOP and high speed Internet?

Google hit 2

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20787-41-review-ipcop-linux-firewall%20-%2047k%20-%20Cached

Shows IPCOP to be capable of 80/85 Mbps

Also it would be a good idea to update to IPCOP 1.4.18 using IPCOP
update facility.

Regards
Fabian


--
"Religion is a result of primal urges, and I hope that it, like
murder and septic personal hygiene, becomes unfashionable."
[Brian Hayward]
From: lars.langer on 20 Dec 2007 05:54
On 19 Dec., 23:37, fabian <fab...(a)null.void> wrote:
> lars.lan...(a)gmail.com uttered these words of wisdom:
>
> > Hi there,
>
> > A question:
>
> > I have a 20480/1024 (kbit/sec) ADSL line, but I can't get higher
> > speeds than around 8 mbit, no matter what I try. I'm running IPCOP
> > ver. 1.4.10 and I currently have Traffic Shaping turnd off. I had it
> > turned on to 20480 down and 1024 up, but then I couldn't get speeds
> > higher than around 2 mbit.
>
> > Does anyone have any experience with IPCOP and high speed Internet?
>
> Google hit 2
>
> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20787-41-review-ipcop-linux-firewal...
>
> Shows IPCOP to be capable of 80/85 Mbps
>
> Also it would be a good idea to update to IPCOP 1.4.18 using IPCOP
> update facility.
>
[Brian Hayward]

Thank you - seems I'll have to look for the error somewhere else then.

All the best,

Lars
From: Mike on 20 Dec 2007 06:24
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 14:12:56 -0800 (PST), lars.langer(a)gmail.com wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>A question:
>
>I have a 20480/1024 (kbit/sec) ADSL line, but I can't get higher
>speeds than around 8 mbit, no matter what I try.

Are you sure that your ADSL line runs *at* this speed or merely "up
to" this speed? Almost all ADSL ISPs quote "up to" speeds and 8 mbps
is "up to" 20480/1024 (kbit/sec). Your service may be guaranteed to
run at that speed but this is such a common misunderstanding among the
public that I thought it worth mentioning.

Mike.

From: Dave Liquorice on 20 Dec 2007 09:19
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:24:41 +0000, Mike wrote:

>> I have a 20480/1024 (kbit/sec) ADSL line, but I can't get higher
>> speeds than around 8 mbit, no matter what I try.
>
> Are you sure that your ADSL line runs *at* this speed or merely "up
> to" this speed?

That is where my money lies...

> Almost all ADSL ISPs quote "up to" speeds and 8 mbps is "up to"
> 20480/1024 (kbit/sec).

eh? how can 8,000 kbit be the same as 20,000+ kbit? Theses days there are
two main ADSL services in the UK those that run *up to* 8Mbps and those
that run *up to* 24Mbps.

> Your service may be guaranteed to run at that speed but this is such a
> common misunderstanding among the public that I thought it worth
> mentioning.

Very, very, unlikely for there to be any speed guarantee at all. What
speed a particular customer gets is highly dependant on the length and
quality of the line.

On the 24Mbps service it degrades to being pretty much the same as 8Mbps
once the line length is over about 6 kilo feet (about a mile) so unless
you are good bit less than a mile *as the line goes* from the exchange
speeding extra for the 24Mbps service is money down the drain.

As for the OP's orginal post wondering if IPCOP is the limiting factor,
highly unlikely unless the machine it is running on is really slow (100MHz
PI sort of slow) and/or there and *awful* lot of rules it has to follow.

Have a look at the diagnostics or information pages of the ADSL modem to
see what speed the line is actually connected at then take the next lowest
500kbps level as the rough maximum you can expect to acheive.

--
Cheers new5pam(a)howhill.com
Dave. pam is missing e-mail



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