"R.Wieser" wrote in message ...
Sasquatch,

the upload speed on the Verizon side of the box was 500K,
but the download speed checked out at 1.5M.

I get the feeling that they are speaking in consumer terms (so as to not to
confuse the nitwits under them), and as a result (rightfully) confusing you.
:-| :-)

So I think they ment "upload" and "download" as seen by you, not by them.
In other words: *you* (probably) have a 1.6 Mbit download and a 0.5 Mbit
upload.

If it would have been the other way around the Verizon DSL tech would
probably have scratched his head ...

Though I have to ask: Are you sure that was in bits-per-second ? That would
make it quite slow (160 KByte a second download).



I have tried FTP to various servers on 1&1, godaddy, namesecure. I send/receive a 250K file. During upload/download, the speed is displayed as:

Upload (my computer to server): 200-400Kbps today
Download (server to my computer): 25-35 Kpbs today
The numbers are the same for all servers.

For the past 10 years up until summer, no problem downloading videos, etc. Then slowly got worse. Verizon hardware techs have been out 6 or so times making new connections on the poles and street connection boxes. Each time the performance improved both up/downloads, but downloads never got about 40Kbps. Hardward techs all say it's because Verizon is not maintaining their lines and are trying to switch everyone to FIOS. I don't keep up with the telephone industry news, but that sounds reasonable to me. Verizon DSL techs only test speeds at various connections - they call the central office and run a "test" but it sounds like from their converstations that the guy at the office is reading from a script. Neither hardware or DSL techs have any respect for each other.


Could this be due to something on my end? modem,
OS, internal building wiring?

All of it possible, but not directly likely.

You could try to test the whole thing by moving the modem as close to the
incoming Verizon wire as you can and use a laptop with a different OS for a
speed test -- ask Verizons helpdesk which server of them you can connect to
for such test.

However the download FTP speed varies from 15-35Kbps,
way too slow for most work

Its possible that the other side throttles *their* upload, which than
(ofcourse) means your download can never get higher than that.

Ever tried to download the same from another connection (preferrably a
building down the streed, a coffeeshop or something like it) ? And how do
other downloads (http for example) do ? Faster ? As slow ? If its the
connection or any of what you named such down/uploads should also be slow.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


-- Origional message:
Sasquatch Jones schreef in berichtnieuws
...
Correction.... last paragraph was wrong....

(This is a new question about a different Verizon DSL line from my previous
posts about DSL vs cable.)

I'm working at another location now which has Verizon DSL. The speed of
uploading files via FTP is 200-400Kbps -- slower than it should be, but fine
for what we're doing here. However the download FTP speed varies from
15-35Kbps, way too slow for most work. Verizon DSL tech came out and
checked -- the upload speed on the Verizon side of the box was 500K, but the
download speed checked out at 1.5M. This location is 2-3 miles from the
Verizon central office.

My question is - why is the UPLOAD speed fast and DOWNLOAD slow? Could this
be due to something on my end? modem, OS, internal building wiring? OS is
Win2000.