Just given it a try, pretty much the same, noise margin increased by about .2 but nothing significant.

Thanks, though I still dont really understand the whole noise margin thing

If they moved me to ADSL2 would the noise margin likely still limit it or are you saying that the noise margin result would be different on that?

I dont really understand if I've been on ADSL the whole time or if I was on ADSL2 during the testing period and they've now stuck me to ADSL? I did manage to sync at 9764 at one point during testing so would that mean I must have been on ADSL2 at the time? If so I dont think I'd do much better as my noise margin was 7 at that time.

I thought everyone knew that with Sky you have to ring up and ask to be put on their gaming profile? Just ring them up and ask. Then post your stats here and see if there's any difference.

Without your modem and you telling us which mode the modem has negotiated we cannot tell if its ADSL or ADSL2+ at this time.

Might be listed as G.DMT 992.1 or 992.3 or 992.5

Judging by your sync rate, you are already on ADSL2+ . If you were on G.dmt then, I think both the upstream and downstream Sync rate would be a whole multiple of 32, but neither 8189 kbps, nor 796 kbps is.

Ah thanks, couldnt seem to find this listed on my sky router but have just got moy old router connected and its showing:

DSL Mode: ADSL2+

So at least it looks like I'm definitely set-up for ADSL2. I guess following the testing this is where I should be.

Thanks. I'd seen the gaming profile mentioned a few times but quite a few people seemed to suggest it didnt make much difference, and I thought I read somewhere that it wasnt an option on the newer hardware sky are installing now and that they just have to manually adjust stuff, but I could have that wrong...

Also, given its name of gaming profile, I thought this would be more about ping that speed, and my ping seems very good.

In reply to a post by R0per:

Thanks. I'd seen the gaming profile mentioned a few times but quite a few people seemed to suggest it didnt make much difference, and I thought I read somewhere that it wasnt an option on the newer hardware sky are installing now and that they just have to manually adjust stuff, but I could have that wrong...

Also, given its name of gaming profile, I thought this would be more about ping that speed, and my ping seems very good.

It does 2 things - reduces the amount of interleaving to improve ping, and uncaps the line so you sync at the max available for your target noise margin.

If it's not available on your MSAN then Sky can make similar changes manually.

It may not make any difference, but I would try that first anyway.

Edited by deleted (Sun 03-Apr-11 13:38:38)

Ah okay, thanks.