Well I am amazed & would never have thought it - I have removed the bell wire and download speed went up straight away! Thank you very much indeed.

Sync speed has not increased, but download is near matching sync - so is good enough!
What would have caused the bell wire to suddenly interfere?

Once again - thank you!

Doubt the bell wire was the cause. Orange is oversubscribed.

In reply to a post by Zadeks:

Orange is oversubscribed.

Evidence?

Generalisation! Explain how I've got 16 Meg throughput on 19 Meg Sync for over a year on WBC?

Tho' I'd agree bell wire unlikely to be direct cause. Proof will be in the pudding!

Surely Orange use WBC, therefore any increase in sync rate, gained by bellwire removal, will not produce an instant increase in throughput speed, due to the IP profile system ?

If the OP has affect a lasting cure to their problem by bellwire removal, then this would imply that it has cleared a high FEC error rate, which will be seen instantly as more throughput speed. 'Course this would now be hard to prove as we were not shown full 'before and after' stats.

I'd still put money on exchange/ISP contention, and coincidence when running speed tests.

In reply to a post by StorkyIV:

Well I am amazed & would never have thought it - I have removed the bell wire and download speed went up straight away! Thank you very much indeed.

It might be that the physical act of moving the socket away from the wall to get at the bell wire and jiggling it all around cleared a dodgy connection on pins 2 or 5 - are they IDC (push in) or screw terminals? You could always put the bell wire back and see what happens!

Interestingly, trying to solve a REIN problem here, removing the bell wire lost my connection as one of the other wires had come adrift in the process but was still apparently in the connector...

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In reply to a post by StorkyIV:

Well I am amazed & would never have thought it - I have removed the bell wire and download speed went up straight away! Thank you very much indeed.

Sync speed has not increased, but download is near matching sync - so is good enough!
What would have caused the bell wire to suddenly interfere?

Once again - thank you!

The cause of your problem looks like a doggy connection in the NTE5 master socket, but you should remove the bell wire terminal 3 it can cause interference to your broadband connection.

http://www.telephonesuk.co.uk/wiring_info.htm

http://www.wppltd.demon.co.uk/WPP/Wiring/UK_telephon...

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

Surely Orange use WBC, therefore any increase in sync rate, gained by bellwire removal, will not produce an instant increase in throughput speed, due to the IP profile system ?

The new DLM running on WBC now adjusts instantly on connection to approximately 88.2% of sync.

Orange is not over subscribed; you are living in the days of freeserve when they had 2 million customers. Orange only has about 713,000 UK broadband customers.

Orange prices are unbeatable, I have with them, line rental, free evening and weekend landline calls, 20 meg unlimited Broadband and Orange mobile phone contract, all for £25.50 per month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeserve

http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2012/05/orange-...

https://broadband.orange.co.uk/home

http://shop.orange.co.uk/mobile-phones/price-plans/p...

Edited by deleted (Sun 15-Jul-12 13:38:35)

Number of customers is irrelevant. It's all about capacity.