Seeing that your line attenuation is between 59.50-60db jimster and getting 3.5mb and my line is 61db and i struggle to get 2mb then surely theres something wrong here.

i know that my speed will go higher but sky in my mind arent doing enough for me.

if you dont mind me asking you this but what speed are you getting now seeing that you have moved to virgin.

as for those stats... ill pm you them later on if you want me to and there is some interesting stats that ive read with people with a long attenuation

Hi Andrew

Heres my router stats as you requested after i did a reset and you will see theres hardly any difference in what i posted earlier on




Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 107 96 0 72 350 00:02:30
LAN 100M/Full 519 0 0 535 0 00:03:20
WLAN 11M/54M 395 811 0 723 711 00:03:07
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 1965 kbps 413 kbps
Line Attenuation 61 db 40 db
Noise Margin 8 db 16 db

Okay if the target downstream noise margin can be lowered you will gain some speed back. Might be 0.5Meg, might be more, might be less.

ADSL is not something you can predict, and attenuation gives us a range of possible speeds, the speed range due to in property wiring, and the amount of RF noise impinging on the line. For example, people close to AM radio transmitters will fair worse than those further away.

There is no your line MUST perform at this speed formula. It is perfectly feasible for a line with poor wiring in the property to only run at 2 Meg even if its attenuation is as low as 44dB.

Also another factor is the ADSL modem you are using, some can give different performance, and even calculate attenuatoin and noise margin slightly differently.

Well thanks very much Andrew for all the advice you have given me and what ill do now is wait until next week sometime to ring up sky and see if i can get my noise margin lowered down and see what that will do for my speed

thanks again

Am going to see Sky on Tuesday, so if you want to drop me details on Monday I can raise this with them.

Send info in an email [email protected]

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Am going to see Sky on Tuesday, so if you want to drop me details on Monday I can raise this with them.

Send info in an email [email protected]

Now thats a service!

Well a very big thanks Andrew for doing this for me and ill send you a email on monday containing all my details

Trust me NilSatisOptimum... if Andrew can get me a faster speed on my line then a knighthood should be awarded to this kind young man

Just for comparison purposes, these are my stats:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2560 kbps 768 kbps
Line Attenuation 61.5 dB 31.5 dB
Noise Margin 6.9 dB 8.0 dB

Only recently has my line been relatively stable at this sync, but it does sometimes vary up and down with re- syncs. I had big problems last year when the sync dropped to less than 500, but my old isp couldn't do anything about it. The speeds did eventually rise, but ave been the most stable here. I did have an over 3mb sync with a 2wire router, but the connection was too flaky.

Mark

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Trust me NilSatisOptimum... if Andrew can get me a faster speed on my line then a knighthood should be awarded to this kind young man

Indeed.