No, as the engineer who is coming has nothing to with broadband.
You have a noisy line, and he's coming to see about that.
Nothing you can see from your stats should change that.
Once the noisy line is fixed, it will likely improve the DSL side of things.

The phone should be silent. Even if you don't have a single error on the line it's worth having the noisy line repaired.

Ok, thanks. There is still only low amounts of noise that I can only just hear, so not sure if the Openreach engineer would think it was noisy enough to be typical of a fault or not.

Edited by deleted (Wed 15-Feb-17 18:25:32)

No.

Only one way to find out.

Well, the issue hasn't reappeared and there's no noise on the line, so I'm going to cancel the Openreach engineer visit.

Edited by deleted (Wed 15-Feb-17 20:14:40)

How can a noise be silent?

There's either noise or there isn't.

Edited to add - Nice edit.

Edited by deleted (Wed 15-Feb-17 20:57:40)

In reply to a post by WilliamGrimsley:

Ok, thanks. Fingers crossed.

If something similar to what happened last night doesn't occur tonight, should I cancel the Openreach engineer visit?

I do wonder why you bothered asking.

Seriously?

Edited by deleted (Wed 15-Feb-17 21:00:03)

In reply to a post by WilliamGrimsley:

Well, the only reason I got into DSL was because of the previous faults on my ADSL line. Faults are what make this hobbie interesting!

I'm not entirely sure this alongside intentionally getting your own line banded to see what DLM does constitutes a hobby. There are a lot of resources online, not least the specifications of xDSL, that are far more interesting than obsessing over MDWS, and waiting for things to go wrong. This isn't going to teach you much about anything beyond that twisted pair can break and when it does it can affect both broadband and narrowband.

What's far more interesting than this is understanding the underlying technologies behind xDSL and how they fit together, not that impairments at layer 1 cause issues - of course they do.

I don't agree.

Edited by deleted (Wed 15-Feb-17 22:21:22)