I see MTS has 3 different DSL services: Light Speed DSL, DSL High Speed, Lightning Speed DSL. Surprisingly, the web site does not indicate what the speeds are (other than "fast", "faster", "fastest"). I'm curious what the theoretical upload speeds are for each level? If anyone is actually using these services, what is the "real" upload speeds you get? Thanks. John
On 18 Apr, John Lange wrote:
I'm curious what the theoretical upload speeds are for each level? If anyone is actually using these services, what is the "real" upload speeds you get?
AFAIK the _upload_ speeds for all the services are identical, and quite slow. I looked into this a while back and the only way to get better upload speed and lower latency is to get Shaw Extreme. I've been extremely pleased with Extreme, especially when both sides are using it.
Trevor Cordes wrote:
AFAIK the _upload_ speeds for all the services are identical, and quite slow. I looked into this a while back and the only way to get better upload speed and lower latency is to get Shaw Extreme. I've been extremely pleased with Extreme, especially when both sides are using it.
Ditto. DSL+PPPoE will unfortunately always have latency issues. DSL is a lot more fragile than cable (in terms of interference). I've seen that with Shaw 'normal' the latency is inversely proportional to the rate of upload and this disappeared with just switching to the Extreme service. I would pay a little more if I could get more than 1Mbps upstream though (high downstream is nice but only if your usage is one way). -- Sean P.S. I don't work for Shaw, nor MTS (at least not any more).
My experience puts all dsl packages (other than the dsl lite) at ~320kbps (32-40 k/s depending how hard you push it, and how lagged you want to get) Theo On Mon, April 18, 2005 12:58, John Lange said:
I see MTS has 3 different DSL services: Light Speed DSL, DSL High Speed, Lightning Speed DSL. Surprisingly, the web site does not indicate what the speeds are (other than "fast", "faster", "fastest").
I'm curious what the theoretical upload speeds are for each level? If anyone is actually using these services, what is the "real" upload speeds you get?
Thanks.
John
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On 18 Apr, Theodore Baschak wrote:
My experience puts all dsl packages (other than the dsl lite) at ~320kbps (32-40 k/s depending how hard you push it, and how lagged you want to get)
I found 270kbps is a more realistic long-term "safe" MTS DSL rate (taking into account frequent short term congestion). That's what I peg my linux HTB QoS stuff at for my DSL clients.
I'm curious what the theoretical upload speeds are for each level? If anyone is actually using these services, what is the "real" upload speeds you get?
Their 'light speed" service (128Kbit/sec down) is limited to 64kbits or 128kbits up (I think 64). For their standard speed service(1.5Mbit down , up from 1.0 a while ago) the upload speed, last time I was with them, was limited at exactly 320kbit/sec. (note: a friend with an older house and crappy wiring was getting about half that upload speed, but near-full download speeds. I pulled cat5e straight from the MTS demarc point all the way to his DSL modem, and put in one filter at the demarc point to prevent the signal going anywhere else inside his house. He got full speeds after that.) Both those speeds were constant and easily attainable, and "hard" (e.g. no temporary overspeeding / n-second average thing) I don't have experience with their "Lightning Speed" service. I imagine it would be limited to 512, 640 or 768kbit/sec. -C
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