06-06-2020, 08:35 AM
Just an update on this problem, in case others are interested. The engineer visit had to be delayed (I appreciate that these are difficult times) but he came earlier this week, checked all connections and replaced a card in the street cabinet. Since then my download speed has been around 37Mbit/s and upload 3.1Mbit/s. The engineer pointed out that the cable from the cabinet to my house uses aluminium conductors rather than copper. Although this was quite common 40 or 50 years ago when the cable was installed, it is not ideal for broadband. I also understand that the main band that is used for upload is at the high end of the frequencies sent along the wire. Hence, if the quality of the cable is poor, the upload speed is the first thing to suffer. So it looks like I am stuck with a 3Mbit/s, or so, upload speed until such time as I can get fibre to the home.
We had our next band practice last night and the latency was much better (consistently around 23ms total latency). So I think a lot of the apparent latency problem was really just a symptom of poor broadband upload speed. Nearly half the latency is now caused by the audio interface, so that is probably the next candidate for optimisation.
Cheers
Steve
We had our next band practice last night and the latency was much better (consistently around 23ms total latency). So I think a lot of the apparent latency problem was really just a symptom of poor broadband upload speed. Nearly half the latency is now caused by the audio interface, so that is probably the next candidate for optimisation.
Cheers
Steve