Am I Getting A Super Good Internet Connection?

[partington]

I have a fairly naive question, prompted by being up late and downloading various (very legal) things on torrents.

I'm in Bangkok, on True, on what is supposed to be a 6Mb/s broadband connection. Over the past few days I'm able to download popular well seeded torrents at speeds around 900kB/s, that often spike up to 1.05MB/s or so.

This seems incredibly good to me, and also from my near negligible knowledge of these matters, impossible. If my connection is nominally 6Mb/s, shouldn't I, at absolute optimum, only be able to download 1/8 of this in kilobytes/s (kB/s), ie 750kB/s!!??

I'm getting movies around 750MB in 15-20 minutes!

How is this possible? is any one else getting these kinds of speeds from True in BKK, or have they connected me up to an accidentally super fast connection?

Edited August 3, 2011 by partington

[lomatopo]

I think the obvious answer is that True have provisioned your line for a downstream data rate greater than 6 Mbps, either by accident (easy to do) or on purpose, for some customer service reason. You can check the date rates in your modem/router typically.

I think this True line is supposed to be 9/1:

Downstream Upstream

SNR Margin (dB): 24.9 9.4

Attenuation (dB): 7.0 2.2

Output Power (dBm): 10.6 13.7

Attainable Rate (Kbps): 26708 1230

Rate (Kbps): 10597 1154

[partington]

I think the obvious answer is that True have provisioned your line for a downstream data rate greater than 6 Mbps, either by accident (easy to do) or on purpose, for some customer service reason. You can check the date rates in your modem/router typically.

I think this True line is supposed to be 9/1:

Downstream Upstream

SNR Margin (dB): 24.9 9.4

Attenuation (dB): 7.0 2.2

Output Power (dBm): 10.6 13.7

Attainable Rate (Kbps): 26708 1230

Rate (Kbps): 10597 1154

Good idea--just had a look at router. Wow, am I really getting 17.5Mb/s?

Don't understand how this has happened, after signing up for 6Mb/s, but I'd better take full advantage before they switch it off again!

Downstream Upstream

SNR Margin: 9.1 22.0 db

Line Attenuation:1.0 0.4 db

Data Rate: 17512 1199 kbps