acid wroteahk40a wrote ... but as we are connected to an active cabinets, all users are capped with a speed of 7Mbps. ...
Why are users who are connected to active cabinets capped to less than their max attainable speed?
I can get ~18 Mbps per my router's dsl Max bandwidth info, but I'm only getting something between 4 and 8 Mbps actual speed. Note that my current data rate (per the router) is ~17 Mbps.
DSL Type: G.992.5 annex A
Maximum Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1.080 / 18.192
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 975 / 17.760
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/MB]: 28,83 / 382,53
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12,0 / 20,0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 16,5 / 22,0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 10,5 / 10,5
Edit: Added the router's DSL info
Well, that is a question to raise it to Ogero, especially Mr. Imad Kreidieh. But it could be related to fact that the Active Room deployed in Dohat-Aramoun uses the old DSLAM with a limited bandwidth. If that is the case, they will tend to throttle the speed such to avoid congestion and loss of packets.
On the other hand, I wonder why they still calculate the traffic that we use to access local websites or applications. As long as we are not using the international gateway, all those data should not be considered in the data cap. For instance, doing speedtest on MIC1, MIC2, Masconet, Ogero etc. consumes around 100MB of data noting that this is hosted locally in Lebanon. All of this data should not be calculated as part of the CAP. Also, YouTube, which could be sometimes part of Google Cache, it shouldn't be considered as well.
This issues is applicable on all ISPs and Mobile providers. I believe there was a legislation called BEIRUT IX for this topic.