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Hi Guys
I thought this recent experience might be of interest to some - Until a couple of weeks ago I was running a Thompson 585v6, my average sync speed varied between 12.5-13.5Mb, I could fiddle with the SNR and get upto about 15Mb but that always degraded with errors amd dropped out regularly - then I switched to a DG384N and was disappointed to get similar results.
But after some fiddling I'm now syncing with a rock solid line at 16-16.5Mb.
This has been achieved by
1) reflashing with the DGTeam firmware
2) configuring the DG384N to run in Bridged mode
3) drop the SNR Percentage right down to 1%
4) Then finally setting up a seperate linux DSL router
Number 4 is obviously the harest part, I have a media PC i leave on most of the time, so I setup VMWare server on it (which is free!) and then installed the ClarkConnect linux distro (http://www.clarkconnect.com/community/, I only chose this since it also acts as a PPTP VPN and Email Server).
Now my connection is more reliable, DNS resolution and page loading is quicker, on one particular site I only used to achieve 130k download speeds (unless I used a download manager) and now I get 400k.
I'm far from a linux expert, this took a couple of days of fiddling, but the final results were worth the effort - The only conclusion I could get from this is that neither of the routers had sufficient cpu power to cope with managing both the Network and ADSL line.
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 16172 kbps 931 kbps
Line Attenuation 33.5 db 29.0 db
Noise Margin 3.8 db 5.3 db
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