Worth thinking about, as you say. Will solve the issue.

Many thanks for the replys.

RobertoS, the modem does have 3B on the back of it and a production date of 05/2012 on the box so hopefully this won't cook itself now it's on the wall.The engineer was in a hurry,basically fitted a new mastersocket,used the old cables,connected the modem and router and said that should work fine when you turn your pc on and he was gone.

RONSKI,thanks for the link for the cat6 cable,think i'll get one of those as like you say won't have to wait around for Openreach to turn up.

Thanks again,

Replaced the modem cable yesterday with the one that you gave me the link for RONSKI.Had to go for a 7m cable as the master socket is upstairs. Sky router was showing 27116 down and 6000 up before it was changed and now shows 25864 down and 4760 up.Guess this will improve in time? Does DLM run all the time? Lastly would it be worthwhile unlocking the hg612 to get the stats and if so is it best to do it now or leave it a bit to see how the speed goes?
Many thanks,Stevo

Just some Info for the Thread.

BT have accepted my order, and an engineer is due to visit, despite:-

the openreach where and when checker still showing as coming december 2012
and, no announcement from the BT twitter feed saying the exchange is live.

and i had BT double check with openreach that its all correct. the cab is live.

So the BT database, updates a lot faster than that website.

One week on from replacing modem cable and speed is still on a downward slope. Unlocked the hg612 earlier today,if anyone can understand the following please tell me.


Welcome Visiting Huawei Home Gateway
Copyright by Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.
Login:admin
Password:
ATP>sh


BusyBox v1.9.1 (2010-10-15 17:59:06 CST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

# xdslcmd info --stats
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 6187 Kbps, Downstream rate = 28868 Kbps
Path: 0, Upstream rate = 4996 Kbps, Downstream rate = 22308 Kbps

Link Power State: L0
Mode: VDSL2 Annex B
VDSL2 Profile: Profile 17a
TPS-TC: PTM Mode
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 6.0 6.9
Attn(dB): 0.0 0.0
Pwr(dBm): 11.6 4.9
VDSL2 framing
Path 0
B: 31 141
M: 1 1
T: 64 8
R: 12 16
S: 0.0456 0.9020
L: 7717 1428
D: 1431 1
I: 44 161
N: 44 161
Counters
Path 0
OHF: 6234742 654906
OHFErr: 159 27
RS: 2394140386 1273352
RSCorr: 485532 117
RSUnCorr: 34201 0

Path 0
HEC: 7249 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 1174086318 0
Data Cells: 71169089 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 16 27
SES: 1 0
UAS: 75 75
AS: 27409

Path 0
INP: 8.50 0.00
PER: 4.37 16.23
delay: 16.00 0.00
OR: 54.80 128.60

Bitswap: 6453 170

Total time = 8 hours 3 min 19 sec
FEC: 489695 123
CRC: 159 28
ES: 16 27
SES: 1 0
UAS: 75 75
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 3 min 19 sec
FEC: 1953 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
FEC: 7608 3
CRC: 0 1
ES: 0 1
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
Latest 1 day time = 8 hours 3 min 19 sec
FEC: 489695 123
CRC: 159 28
ES: 16 27
SES: 1 0
UAS: 75 75
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
Previous 1 day time = 0 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
Since Link time = 7 hours 36 min 49 sec
FEC: 485532 117
CRC: 159 27
ES: 16 26
SES: 1 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
#
Many thanks for any feedback,Steve.

Please can we have the xdslcmd info --pbParams output .

Here they are-

# xdslcmd info --pbParams
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 2
Max: Upstream rate = 4693 Kbps, Downstream rate = 28712 Kbps
Path: 0, Upstream rate = 4957 Kbps, Downstream rate = 22446 Kbps

Discovery Phase (Initial) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (880,1195) (1984,2771)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1959) (2792,4083)
Medley Phase (Final) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (880,1195)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1959)
VDSL Port Details Upstream Downstream
Attainable Net Data Rate: 4693 kbps 28712 kbps
Actual Aggregate Tx Power: 6.4 dBm 11.6 dBm
============================================================================
VDSL Band Status U0 U1 U2 U3 D1 D2 D3
Line Attenuation(dB): 5.2 53.5 64.9 N/A 22.2 65.6 0.1
Signal Attenuation(dB): 5.2 53.0 N/A N/A 22.2 65.6 N/A
SNR Margin(dB): 6.0 5.3 N/A N/A 5.7 0.0 N/A
TX Power(dBm): -3.6 6.0 N/A N/A 11.6 -128.0 N/A

Please can anyone shed some light on the stats i have posted,i hav'nt a clue what the figures mean,do they look ok?or is this about all the line can handle, or should i be on the phone to sky? as it is nearly 10 meg less than their estimate.
Thanks, Steve.

If back tracking this long thread correctly, you suggested around 0.5 mile from cabinet, i.e. ~800m and

28 Meg down is about right for that speed. It does not take much error in the estimate for this to be 1000m and match the speeds you are seeing.

Path: 0, Upstream rate = 4957 Kbps, Downstream rate = 22446 Kbps

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/guide/fibre-broadband....
The speed drop off with VDSL2 is very steep.

The attenuations and band utilisation seems to point towards a long line,

Well, 5 months down the road with the speed slowly dropping to just over 20meg, which i thought was just because of more people being connected. Went on ebay and bought an eci modem(eci cab).Hooked it up and speed dropped slightly,then the next day the sky router is showing 26732 down!
Result!