thats because sky asked me to try the test socket and then back to the main socket with the speed droping with each change thats why

sky called out bt to ckeck my line the line is fine a few times sky have told me im on a 8mg connection the bt engineer says im on 8mg connection when i put my phone number in samknows site my exchange is BT Wholesale ADSL
BT Wholesale ADSL Max
BT Wholesale WBC (21CN)
AOL LLU
TalkTalk (CPW) LLU
Sky Broadband / Easynet LLU
with my exchang having upgraded i thought it would be up to 24mg all tho i now i wont get any where near that sky are connecting me at 4mg

http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/calc/calculator.php estimates based on your actual router data can be grabbed from that link.

You ARE on Sky LLU, which is an ADSL2+ service.

As Sky are saying 5 Meg is the maximum your line will support it is feasible that it is the Sky DLM system that is limiiting you. The Sky DLM tends to favour stability.

yesterday sky had a bt engineer to check my line he said the line was fine any speed issues is at skys end he phoned sky and they told him that the were running tests on my connection to last 12 days come from the nightsift and my speed is up to

Modem



Modem Status

Connected



DownStream Connection Speed

6137 kbps



UpStream Connection Speed

797 kbps



VPI

0



VCI

40