I would be grateful if someone could give me some guidance on the following.
I live in a fairly rural area and it’s unlikely that our line will be improved any time soon, so we won’t have the ability to get cable/fibre optic broadband. Therefore in an attempt to achieve faster speeds I’m contemplating upgrading the existing Zyxel modem/router given by our ISP and purchasing separate units. The question is, given my below stats, is it futile doing this given that my line attenuation is 63.5db and the SNR is 6.5db.Whilst no expert, and I’m happy to be corrected, I understand that whilst you can improve your SNR, your stuck with your line attenuation. If I go down the avenue of improving my SNR will I, in reality, see much improvement in speed given that I have such a high attenuation figure? Do the two go hand in hand?
upstream speed:864 kbps
downstream speed: 5056 kbps
relative capacity occupation: 98%
noise margin upstream: 6.0 db
output power downstream: 19.0 dbm
attenuation upstream: 31.5 db
carrier load: number of bits per symbol(tone)
tone 0- 31: 00 00 00 35 8a bb cc cc cb bb ba aa aa 99 88 76
tone 32- 63: 05 67 8a bc bc dd dd ae ee ee dd de ee ee de ee
tone 64- 95: 0e ee dd de ed dd dd dd dd cd cd cd dd dd dc cc
tone 96-127: cc cb bc cc cb ba bb ba aa 9a aa 99 a9 88 a7 99
tone 128-159: a8 89 80 88 87 87 78 74 25 70 46 65 05 66 66 54
tone 160-191: 20 02 44 44 25 54 55 54 45 44 44 32 24 24 34 22
tone 192-223: 22 22 23 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 20 00 00 00
tone 224-255: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
relative capacity occupation: 107%
noise margin downstream: 6.5 db
output power upstream: 12.5 dbm
attenuation downstream: 63.5 db