If a DG834 or DG834G (written underneath it) then should be fine with ADSL2+ and plenty good enough.

It is the Sky-locked DG934G which is a DG834G v3 when unlocked. In its Sky manifestation TELNET is disabled so you can never find out its ADSL Mode or Error counts, which was what we were discussing.

But, yes, it will be OK for ADSL2+ as you say

Well lets leave it for now Andrew and see what you can do for me next tuesday and a very big thanks again for going out of your way to try and solve my problem

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Well lets leave it for now Andrew and see what you can do for me next tuesday and a very big thanks again for going out of your way to try and solve my problem

All you have to do is to email sky and ask to be put on the gamer profile as highlighted here: http://helpforum.sky.com/t5/Sky-Broadband-Gaming/Gam...

This info was supplied earlier by nredwood here.

Thanks for the advice Batboy but ill see what Andrew can do for me next week first

I dont know if applies to me or even if i can do this to my sky router but ive been reading on different forums and websites that changing channels on my router might help me out with my situation

I read with one user that he changed the channels on his router and he got a extra 1mb by doing this

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Thanks for the advice Batboy but ill see what Andrew can do for me next week first

Well, I did it and it worked for me

Changing wireless channels can improve your throughput of wireless connected PCs.

But I thought you were concerned about your Sync speed at which your router is operating and changing channels can't affect that, obviously.

I don't know much technical details but can tell you what worked for me.

I was getting around 2.5-2.6 for a while, then it went down to 2, then 1.5mb. I eventually got bored of it and decided to try and do something.

I bought a "iPlate BT Accelerator" from broadbandbuyer on ebay. I then bought various cables but the best was "10M metre RJ11 to RJ11 Extension ADSL Modem Lead Cable" from ezzeshop (does a 5m one too) and 2 new line filters "2 x ADSL Broadband FILTER Modem BT RJ11 Phone SPLITTER" from kenable.

I tried the various cables I bought and one cheap one actually made my line noise go up 2 or 3db! I fitted it all and not much changed. I think I was still getting 58.5 - 59db.

But then I phoned up sky and they put me through to an engineer, I said I was unhappy with my speeds and he reset my connection and it connected at 4000kbps and 605kbps up. I was amazed as the best I had ever seen was 2.8. I asked if he could put my upload speed up a bit and he set it too 768kbps and said thats about as much as I could get (I have been up to 900kbps before but I had bad download speeds)

My attenuation went to 55-56db. It would go up to 56 and then reconnect me at 3.7-3.8 sometimes during the night (more interferance from AM signals). But then during the day time I would turn it off and on and it would go to 55db and 4mb, but then the line noise at night would go as low as 2.9db. Now its at 4.2 down and 768up and the line noise never goes below 5db, mostly stays at the high end of 5 at night and 6 odd in the day.

Oh and I'm on the gaming profile, I think it lets you have a lower line noise threshold so you can get more speed.

Agree with Mike only other thing I'd say is if you can force the modulation try between adsl2 and adsl2+, 2+ is double the frequency and can give you more interference on longer lines. You can also try to remove the ringwire, but the faceplate filter is an easier less fiddley option. I've also got a filtered faceplate at the master socket. I have also tried out a few RJ11 cables and have noticed a difference in the downstream att.

I''m sitting on a 61db and applying the faceplate filter, snr tweaking to a stable 6db and adsl2

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 2908 kbps 763 kbps
Line Attenuation 61.0 db 37.9 db
Noise Margin 6.2 db 6.0 db

On the advice of Mike i've ordered a 5M metre RJ11 to RJ11 Extension ADSL Modem Lead Cable. Looks better quality than the one I'm using and will see if it makes any difference to my connection. Every kbps helps when you live miles from the exchange!

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