Slt Adsl Painfullly Slow

zeem35 · December 29, 2009

For the last few days the internet is painfully slow.. is it only me or all slt adsl users r experiencing it?

Im from maradana exchange..

Supra_Natural · December 29, 2009

zeem35 said:
For the last few days the internet is painfully slow.. is it only me or all slt adsl users r experiencing it?
Im from maradana exchange..

Really? It seems faster than usual over here (nugegoda). Just this morning I managed to download this Sunday's TG episode in 2 Hours and 1 minute. 700 MB too, Fastest Ive ever seen SLT to be.

Edited December 29, 2009 by Supra_Natural

zeem35 · December 29, 2009

to load a video in youtube is taking like 15 mins for a song..

SeanD · December 29, 2009

zeem35 said:
For the last few days the internet is painfully slow.. is it only me or all slt adsl users r experiencing it?
Im from maradana exchange..

You are in one of the busiest exchanges in Sri Lanka for ADSL, which I think also has the oldest infrastructure due to it being an early adopter. I'm also on that exchange when I'm in Sri Lanka. Specially at peak times, it will be slow. It's so disgustingly slow sometimes you fell its like dialup.

Try and give them a call and tell their helpline your problem. While they may or may not be able to do anything about it, they are very nice. One time I had a problem with my line continually getting disconnected, and when I called in the night they sent someone over next morning itself to do some replacement wiring and it was all ok.

Otherwise, you can just pray that one day SLT will get it's act together and improve their broadband.

zeem35 · December 29, 2009

hehe.. this is the first time im posting a complaint online.. I do always call them the next minute if I have problem.. n im an early adopter too..

just wanted to know is it only me or all r facing.. have we got only a handful of SLT ADSL users in AL??

Ruslan · December 29, 2009

Using their 512Kbps Unlimited package. didn't notice any slowness. took 4-5 hours to download DVD ripped movie which is 1.3GB and I'm in Mahragama.

MasterDon · December 30, 2009

i have the 512kbps unlimited package at me house,and apart from youtube being a bit slow on office hours,i have no complains.and this is on a VERY old PC...but yeah i heard the maradana exchange has a lot of issues.

ferrarif50 · December 30, 2009

using the unlimited package at home and no complains about browsing.

but i have a small problem when downloading torrents or any file, it never go beyond 50-55Kbps ! is this normal or is there any issue with my connection?

pls note that i haven't limit downloading speed from uTorrent, its set to unlimited on download speed

Edited December 30, 2009 by ferrarif50

Supra_Natural · December 30, 2009

ferrarif50 said:
using the unlimited package at home and no complains about browsing.
but i have a small problem when downloading torrents or any file, it never go beyond 50-55Kbps ! is this normal or is there any issue with my connection?

pls note that i haven't limit downloading speed from uTorrent, its set to unlimited on download speed

Well the 50's are usually the average speed I get as well, I find that it helps on utorrent if you limit the upload to around 5-10Kb/s and also set a limit for the downloads rather than unlimited. Around 250KB/s is what I set, and I get decent speeds. Cant explain why though.

Edited December 30, 2009 by Supra_Natural

Pericles · December 30, 2009

ferrarif50 said:
using the unlimited package at home and no complains about browsing.
but i have a small problem when downloading torrents or any file, it never go beyond 50-55Kbps ! is this normal or is there any issue with my connection?

pls note that i haven't limit downloading speed from uTorrent, its set to unlimited on download speed

Thats the max speed 512 kiloBITs per second = 512/8 KiloBytes per second = 64 kbps. Actually, with check bits and parity bits (depending on the setup, I'm not familiar with it) probably closer to 512/9 or 512/10. Which will land you right in the range your getting. Cheer up, its the max speed you'll get!

LaZyBoY · December 30, 2009

Try www.speedtest.net

f50: 55-60K is about the max I get as well, which is about right for a 512K line I believe.

SeanD · December 30, 2009

Possibly SLT is throttling torrents, as some ISPs do? That would affect your speed as well.

ferrarif50 · December 30, 2009

oh i see.... thanks guys !

evilmak · December 30, 2009

http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections...spx?ARTID=72132

Hopefully this will increase QOS of SLT. Speeds have been very poor lately.

zeem35 · December 30, 2009

this is wot i got its workin maxa.. 512d/l n 128 upload but other sites suck

Edited December 30, 2009 by zeem35

GearHead · December 30, 2009

didnt exp.. any issues like this with SLT when i was using it..file a complaint and they would look into it ..

GearHead · December 30, 2009

speedtest.net...nice find.I dont think i'd have any issues with line speed though

MasterDon · December 30, 2009

yep 60 kbps is the torrent download norm for me as well with bursts up to 95kbps

GearHead said:
speedtest.net...nice find.I dont think i'd have any issues with line speed though

ado you lucky bastard...just think of all the things i can do with that kind of speed

although using widely recognized ISP's has it's disadvantages...some of my foreign living friends received warning e-mails for torrents from film companies via their internet providers.

Supra_Natural · December 30, 2009

At this point I KNOW something has gone wrong with the speedtest....

Supra_Natural · December 30, 2009

Yep, somethings gone wrong all right..

SeanD · December 30, 2009

evilmak said:
http://www.dailymirror.lk/DM_BLOG/Sections...spx?ARTID=72132
Hopefully this will increase QOS of SLT. Speeds have been very poor lately.

Autolanka, looks like the authorities are heeding your cry

GearHead · December 31, 2009

Supra_Natural said:
Yep, somethings gone wrong all right..

machan you must be living in the actual exchange but still....

Edited December 31, 2009 by GearHead

GearHead · December 31, 2009

MasterDon said:
yep 60 kbps is the torrent download norm for me as well with bursts up to 95kbps
ado you lucky bastard...just think of all the things i can do with that kind of speed

well for torrents the actual DL speed really depends on the seeds,etc.But for online gaming the higher upload rate helps quite a bit..

highlander · January 1, 2010

LaZyBoY said:
Try www.speedtest.net
f50: 55-60K is about the max I get as well, which is about right for a 512K line I believe.

Yes true..I have a 1mb which gives me 80-95kbps on download

MkX · January 4, 2010

Ruslan said:
Using their 512Kbps Unlimited package. didn't notice any slowness. took 4-5 hours to download DVD ripped movie which is 1.3GB and I'm in Mahragama.

I use the same package in Kandy it takes at least 8hrs for 700mb movie download.

Average spead is around 45 - 55 Kbps.

Well they purposely block traffic allocation for some sites. Recently my father purchased PeoTV and they said after PeoTV connection ADSL spead also will increase little and it was around 80-90 Kbps for few weeks after PeoTV installation and then dropped back to normal 40-50 range.

And reason for this is some companies give more connections than recommended connection from one switch and will reason in blocking bandwidths to avoid overload of the network. In average 250 Kbps should be possible with a 512Kbps link.

Edited January 4, 2010 by MkX