No the sky box is not connected to the phone line at all.

Many thanks, Apprentice, for your link to KITZ website. I've tried this link before for my router - Thompson TG585 v7 - but I can't find the stats I need.

Not to worry: I have to get back to O2 & so I'll check with them. During the daytime Mon to Fri, my down speed is usually about 2.3/2.4 meg which is OK for my area. At weekends, however, my speed drops to as low as 0.3 meg. especially in the evening. Last night (Mon) it was 0.5 meg.

I have precious little technical knowledge but I believe the problem has to be a contention issue. Would you agree? Thanks again for the link.

I'll try it without a nte5a to start with and see how I get on. Can alway stick one one if I start to have problems at a later date.

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I'll try it without a nte5a to start with and see how I get on. Can alway stick one one if I start to have problems at a later date.

Nods, in encouragement.

After all, your have four secondary sockets to "play" with. (I hope the IDCs have not been damaged by the electrician forcing the twisted-together wires into them.) If you have a typical Wizard's grotto, you'll have the appropriate cable with a BT plug at one end and a RJ11 plug at the other end, otherwise they can still be purchased.

In reply to a post by 1_4_all:

Many thanks, Apprentice, for your link to KITZ website. I've tried this link before for my router - Thompson TG585 v7 - but I can't find the stats I need.

Not to worry: I have to get back to O2 & so I'll check with them. During the daytime Mon to Fri, my down speed is usually about 2.3/2.4 meg which is OK for my area. At weekends, however, my speed drops to as low as 0.3 meg. especially in the evening. Last night (Mon) it was 0.5 meg.

I have precious little technical knowledge but I believe the problem has to be a contention issue. Would you agree? Thanks again for the link.

Try http://192.168.1.254/cgi/b/dsl/dt/?ce=1&be=0&l0=1&l1=0

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In reply to a post by a2hgo:

I'll try it without a nte5a to start with and see how I get on. Can alway stick one one if I start to have problems at a later date.

Nods, in encouragement.

After all, your have four secondary sockets to "play" with. (I hope the IDCs have not been damaged by the electrician forcing the twisted-together wires into them.) If you have a typical Wizard's grotto, you'll have the appropriate cable with a BT plug at one end and a RJ11 plug at the other end, otherwise they can still be purchased.

Well proof is in the pudding as they say. Spent an hour this afternoon running a wire from the XNTE to the socket in the living room, all done neatly, proper job. Anyway heres a screenshot of the router stats:

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4858/photolol.png

Basicaly a from a 2.5mb sync to 8.5mb, 3x increase in speed. Can't be much happier with that!

Edited by deleted (Fri 30-Sep-11 22:04:48)

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Basically a from a 2.5mb sync to 8.5mb,

It's actually from 1.8 Meg to 6.6 Meg increase in Sync and it's very good . It's the Bandwidth reading that's your Sync not the Maximum one which is what it would be if no DLM restrictions were in place.

Suggestions re socket and protocol:-

1) If you want a neat socket with phone and broadband sockets, then given the XNTE I suggest an XTF 85 faceplate instead of a complete XTE-2005.

2) I only skimmed the thread but IIRC you don't particularly want a phone anyway, in which case the ADSL cable from the router should be pluggable directly into the existing socket, with no filter. The only purpose of the filter is to prevent ADSL "noise" getting onto the phone line and ADSL frequency range noise picked up by the phone cabling side of things being fed back onto the ADSL circuit.

3) The best connection for your line I suggest would be ADSL2, rather than ADSL(1) or ADSL2+. See this post, but note that I believe the "saveall" needs to be a separate command, not part of the main one. (It may even be "save all". What it does is preserve the setting for subsequent re-connections).

4) What is strange is your downstream noise margin never seems to be near the default 6dB. What time of day do you tend to connect, and what time of day do you read the stats? Daylight connections are fastest, and a stats reading immediately after one would be interesting.

Thanks for clarifying dude.

If I'm to connect the adsl cable from the router straight into the wall without the filter I'll need to buy that faceplate as the adsl connection is obviously different to the phone socket. Do they sell them in BnQ?

With regards to point 3, are you saying I should go into the router and manually change it to ADSL2?

Point 4. I tend to connect at around 7-8pm for general browsing, bit of online gaming etc. I'll sometimes do a quick check of the stats first thing in a morning, 8am and find theyre usually around 10-20% better than in the evening.

Are you saying if I address point 1.2and 3 I can look to improve the connection even further?