I'm no better than anyone else

I know plugging in telephones can cause a drop in quality of signal. So I plugged in a new phone to my test socket (happily trawling along the floor in my in need in hoovering castle). Now I can't be bothered to unplug it and move it to a different socket after seeing a 2Mbps drop in sync speed.

It's probably a dodgy filter but I'm really lazy when I get home.

I have just read a thread about somebody who left because of slow speeds.
ADSL does seem to have its inconsistencies although most in this forum probably
have the experience to work things out over time.

This morning's download is at over 6300k having tweaked my MTU/RWIN to 1492/92928.
Apparently there is some packet fragmentation here but as I would have been happy with 3000k that will do nicely!

Merry Xmas!

Meldrew

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The engineer decided to plug a dual socket into the phone socket and plug the filter into the dual socket

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This happens all the time with Sky. They do it because, believe it or not, in a lot of cases the Sky box cannot dial out when connected to a filter using the Sky provided extension. If you replace their extension with a decent quality one of your own then it works as it should. (You can check if it's working properly by going to Services and System Test, IIRC.) Of course, if you're outwith your 12 month tie in with Sky you could just disconnect the Sky box from the phoneline completely.