This may help somebody.

Posting for info, may help somebody.

Got connected FTTC a couple of months ago. D/l speed a tad over 4MB/s dropped to 3.80 over a few days. Suffering intermittent disconnections, my logs looked much worse than the apparent reality. Once I noticed the logs I could see that they were correlating with drops in the PPP session (some very short indeed), sync never lost.

Engineer visit today (that makes two who think one cannot connect with the modem alone, but I digress). Replaced some tinned aluminium wire in my socket (which he said was a 'no no') with copper and replaced the modem; the first batch was faulty. He then arranged for my profile to be reset. 72 hrs of training to go, cannot use the BT tester during this period.

I can download at 4.36MB/s now. I was his first call of the day, normally when I am given a 08:00-13:00 hrs slot I wait for ages - hopefully a good omen.

Many thanks go to ADSL24 support for agreeing that there was a problem without any effort on my part.

DrT

In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

cannot use the BT tester during this period.

I think the reason you can't use the BT tester is 'cos they've broken it again, it's been returning "Test Error" for me (and others) since yesterday pm


edit- working now.

Edited by billford (Tue 01-Mar-11 10:37:22)

That is GOOD news for me.

I managed to use it earlier and thought my (re)training period had finished. My max d/l speed has dropped significantly since yesterday and I just hope that my speed can go up during training too.

Cheers

DrT

In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

Replaced some tinned aluminium wire in my socket (which he said was a 'no no')

Something wrong here. Tinned copper, yes, but tinned aluminium? Doesn't exist.

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In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

Replaced some tinned aluminium wire in my socket (which he said was a 'no no')

Something wrong here. Tinned copper, yes, but tinned aluminium? Doesn't exist.

"Tinned" means having a layer of solder on it, not necessarily covered with tin (http://www.mediacollege.com/misc/solder/tinning.html).

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In reply to a post by BatBoy:

In reply to a post by DrTeeth:

Replaced some tinned aluminium wire in my socket (which he said was a 'no no')

Something wrong here. Tinned copper, yes, but tinned aluminium? Doesn't exist.

"Tinned" means having a layer of solder on it, not necessarily covered with tin (http://www.mediacollege.com/misc/solder/tinning.html).

Yes, I know what it means.

Aluminium wire can be bought as tinned over copper-plating... might have been that.

Yes, could be but the copper would be tinned. I think it may be stranded wire which has a solid end for the connector - that would be a problem.

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Yes, could be but the copper would be tinned. I think it may be stranded wire which has a solid end for the connector - that would be a problem.

IIRC the engineer called the 'bad' wire 'bell wire'. Could be mistaken.

Meanwhile my max d/l speed has dropped to 3.65, hopefully, during the 72 hrs training, it can go up too.

DrT

Eek "bell wire" Hopefully that fixes the problem.