Is that running wired or wireless?

If it's wired it looks from that as though your ISP is congested. If wireless, that could be the cause and wired would be faster.

The IP Profile is the extra info. That determines the actual maximum speed, and you shouldn't be getting only 76% of that.

What are the stats though on ADSL2? You forgot to post those .

Just a bit more detail:

- the connection speed and other stats show us the state of the connection between you and the exchange;

- the IP Profile, explained here except you are on a newer version, so instead of the table and wait times yours is always around 88% of connection speed, determines the actual maximum download and upload speeds;

- wireless speeds are almost always lower than wired, sometimes considerably.

Ye see what you mean, I was reffering to the actual download speed. It dropped by half a meg when I changed over from auto to adsl2 on the router. Thats what i thought it would take time to settle.

Can I ask one more question (as I have no real understanding of the technicalities of broadband provision) does the line " 0-7150kbps" mean that I am still on an" up to 8mb" connection and if so would upgrading to" up to 20mb "make any difference

2.8km straight line, but your cable length is more like 4km.

At around 45 to 48dB range, ADSL2+ runs out of stream, and any improvement is just from ADSL2 mode.

The downstream dropping, is more often down to the fact that you had an excellent matched pair of hardware before, and the modem does not get along as well with the new exchange hardware. OR and perhaps a mixture, that there is now more cross talk on the line.

In reply to a post by billd:

Can I ask one more question (as I have no real understanding of the technicalities of broadband provision) does the line " 0-7150kbps" mean that I am still on an" up to 8mb" connection and if so would upgrading to" up to 20mb "make any difference

No, you'll probably sync at the same speed.

I drafted this long ago and forgot to post it, as I got interrupted. Woth adding to what has been said in the meantime.

1 - probably yes, 2 - certainly no.

Stats please . Preferably on ADSL2.

No worries m8,glad to be getting advice from people who know their talking about and not excuses and flannel from isp,s.


System Up Time 04:41:27
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN pppoa 161547 291292 0 1927 50709 02:09:06
LAN1 100M 173749 99977 0 6590 1360 04:41:17
LAN2 Link Down --
LAN3 Link Down --
LAN4 1000M 04:41:17
WLAN b/g/n 300M 416514 271822 0 27491 2260 04:41:02
WLAN a/n 300M 0 0 0 0 0 04:41:02


ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 5177 kbps 832 kbps
Line Attenuation 51.5 db 26.3 db
Noise Margin 5.7 db 5.8 db

Prob not on ADSL2 only!

When you were getting the near 6Mbps sync, (as MrSaffron says that is pretty amazing though it is possible), was that with this new router or the previous one?

You say you replaced the wall socket and ADSLv1 faceplate. That is the master I assume? You mean you replaced the whole thing, right back to the incoming wires from outside? What make(s) have you put in? Again, was this before or after the sync dropped?

Just a tip as well. Your earlier re-sync's we have asked for have been in daylight. If you do one at dusk, night-time or dawn it is always slower, so not worth doing when looking for speed.

Hi again, in order the answers to your questions are....
1 It was the old router (linksys 300n) that died.
2 Both peices are genuine BT parts
3 They were fitted not long before the upgrade and were working fine

Not that it makes any difference but i used 6mb as an approx ,a more accurate reading would have been between 5700 and 5850. still a good 4.5 to 4.8 on down load speed though.

I have noticed evening and night speeds are a bit slower but it is never a huge difference. Earlier i did comparison speed tests with the only 3 isps i can get through this exchange (at least according to Kitz) and BT offered 2-2.5mb, sky said approx 4.5mb and talktalk 5-10mb. I take it this really is a guessing game with these poeple.