In reply to a post by Vorlon:

In reply to a post by Sadoldman:

.......Hopefully I'll get an explanation.

It can happen so I have found out on these forums. ADSL can work on one wire apparently, so voice could be lost totally.

Really (being genuine), I'd like to know how that is achieved.

I stand to be corrected, but I think Don is exaggerating a bit to say that ADSL can work on one wire

What it can do is work on a two-wire connection with one wire broken- the high frequencies used by the ADSL signal can capacitively bridge a small gap that will stop the low frequency audio phone signals in their tracks.

>>>What it can do is work on a two-wire connection with one wire broken>>>

So I was wrong regarding one wire darn it.

It can work on 3 wires it seems. One complete from exchange to dwelling and two wires one from either end that don't quite meet.

In reply to a post by Sadoldman:

It can work on 3 wires it seems. One complete from exchange to dwelling and two wires one from either end that don't quite meet.

Pretty much, yes- a nice summation

In reply to a post by Sadoldman:

It can work on 3 wires it seems. One complete from exchange to dwelling and two wires one from either end that don't quite meet.

Ouch!

He actually means one from each end not "either", but he gets confused like that.

Looks like road will have to be excavated Openreach engineer found fault close to property but underground. Have temporary repair.

Oh 'eck as they may say in Yorkshire!

Surprising he couldn't use the other pair - or maybe that is duff as well.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Surprising he couldn't use the other pair - or maybe that is duff as well.

Just had a second engineer - perhaps they are related to buses

He confirmed that first guy would have used spare pair but that they'll have to replace both pairs at a later date.

Hows this for a speed test on line syncing at 6046kbps

Yesterday played havoc with IP profile which was 5000kbps

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/1...

Edited by deleted (Tue 11-Aug-09 15:42:06)

In reply to a post by nadger:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Surprising he couldn't use the other pair - or maybe that is duff as well.

Just had a second engineer - perhaps they are related to buses

He confirmed that first guy would have used spare pair but that they'll have to replace both pairs at a later date.

Hows this for a speed test on line syncing at 6046kbps

Yesterday played havoc with IP profile which was 5000kbps

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/results/id/1...

Sounds good.

My router used to Sync at 8128kbps with a profile of 7150kbps and that was on a run (which could be intermitent) that contained some aluminium cable. They finally replace the aluminium run with a 200 pair cable a couple of weeks ago, but now my line syncs anywhere between 7456 and 7616kbps in 32k increments, with a profile of 6500kbps. Good job BT/OR aren't responsible for the street lighting or we'd have gas lamps. The cab boxes around here are still poor.

I decided to upgrade the firmware on my TG585v7 just as an experiment as thomson haven't releases anything specifically for the UK since version 7.4.4.7. So i now have an English/German FW with the Austrian flag! lol Version 8.2.3.10 which seems ok. The lines still as it was as i assumed it would be. Also the software DMT still works in the main, aslong as you uncheck "get versions info"

If you used to sync at 8128 and now it tops at 7616 it is almost certain Interleaving has been turned on automatically by the system due to errors occurring while the cable was being messed around with.

It will not turn itself off, even on an auto setting - that just lets it turn on. If you are unhappy then contact your ISP support.

IPStream always syncs at a multiple of 32kbps.