What sort of speed shall I get?

VPI/VCI: 0/38
Type: PPPoA
Modulation: G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type: Fast
Noise margin (Down/Up): 3.5 dB / 8.3 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up): 47.1 dB / 28.4 dB
Output power (Down/Up): 19.7 dBm / 12.2 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up): 0 / 0
CRC Events (Down/Up): 141 / 36


Is on a line with an ancient early 90's bt faceplate on and not test socket.

6.4 to 7.6 Meg?

Ouch is that all, just moved from a flat a mile away where I got 20 meg

Any way to increase speed?

Move back to the flat!

Move back!

Move back.

Nick

That was great!

Nick

GMTA!

What do you expect? You never has this at old flat:

In reply to a post by mittenkrust:

Line attenuation (Down/Up): 47.1 dB / 28.4 dB

You could try forcing ADSL2. You might squeeze 7.5 to 8 Meg.

In basic terms what is the actual problem, and can anything be done to sort it.

We are getting fibre at my exchange in June but so used to downloading large steam games.

The basic problem is that you have around 4km of copper telephone wire between your home and the exchange building, and as ADSL/ADSL/ADSL2+ performance degrades the longer the copper telephone line you are only ever going to get the speeds people have mentioned, and very possibly slower.

Ouch again! Its only 1.5 miles to exchange so I thought It may be a little better.

Oh well.

As a matter of interest is it worth getting a good quality filtered faceplate.

Isn't it obvious? The "problem" is the length of your phone line and it can't be fixed w/out moving closer to exchange, it can only be obviated.

C'mon, don't keep us in the dark! What are you actually getting?

How can we tell if a change of faceplate would benefit if we don't know that? The socket may look grotty but electricity may have no problem flowing thro' it.

I meant in terms of quality so I can minimise interferance etc.

I get dead on 5 meg, line only turned on today though

In reply to a post by mittenkrust:

As a matter of interest is it worth getting a good quality filtered faceplate.

Filter doesn't matter, as all that does is stop you getting *DSL tones on the phone and then feedback. Unplug your phones, you don't need a filter for *DSL, so try that to test.

Nick

THat nugget was missing from the picture earlier

5 Meg is a fraction low but in the normal range.

If you have extensions that are wired in and unused remove them, and look at removing the ring wire - lift the wire that goes to pin 3 on the various sockets

Get your master and modem as close to the point of entry that you can. That can minimise pick up of any RFI/noise generated with yours house.

If it means getting the master moved and putting the modem in the loft have a think about it. Even think about double filtering ALL of the telephony side.

Filtered face plate, short length of cable to the input of another filtered faceplate before feeding out to the voice sockets. Any noise in the ADSL spectrum that is picked up on the voice lines will come back to the filter where it will be "rejected" but the filters are not perfect and only give 20-30dB of attenuation which is enough to stop you hearing it but with the levels the modem works at, it could still be "shouting".

In reply to a post by mittenkrust:

VPI/VCI: 0/38
Type: PPPoA
Modulation: G.992.5 Annex A
Latency type: Fast
Noise margin (Down/Up): 3.5 dB / 8.3 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up): 47.1 dB / 28.4 dB
Output power (Down/Up): 19.7 dBm / 12.2 dBm
FEC Events (Down/Up): 0 / 0
CRC Events (Down/Up): 141 / 36


Is on a line with an ancient early 90's bt faceplate on and not test socket.

Out of interest, what software did you use to get those stats?

In reply to a post by jez9999:

Out of interest, what software did you use to get those stats?

In many cases, follow the instructions on this page.

If yours isn't listed, what is it?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

In reply to a post by jez9999:

Out of interest, what software did you use to get those stats?

In many cases, follow the instructions on this page.

If yours isn't listed, what is it?

It's a Technicolor TG582n.

See if these instructions work.

If they don't, I or someone, (I'm going to be busy), will probably be able to find some that do .

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

See if these instructions work.

If they don't, I or someone, (I'm going to be busy), will probably be able to find some that do .

Ah yes, I get this:
DSL Type: ITU-T G.992.5
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 1.334 / 11.838
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [GB/GB]: 3,99 / 3,99
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12,1 / 18,9
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 21,7 / 39,0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 7,3 / 5,0


Look any good?

Very good!

As XRaySpeX says. Very good (for the length of line).