You should get 2.5mbps if you ask to have your noise margin lowered to 6 and/or ask to go on the gamer profile.

thanks for the reply mikel

how good are these iplates and Andrew left my details with them

im not going to call for a engineer now because ive got a funny feeling that im just wasting my time now with them especially after that phone call to them

ill just have to wait now until fibre optic comes to my area

It depends on how much you value your connection, judging by the number of posts - quite a bit.

Help yourself in what ways you can, a new iplate could seriously affect your speed on your line and it is something that YOU can sort out. It all depends wether the ringwire is connected or not, if its not it will make little difference. Also get a filtered faceplate again YOU can help yourself by getting this.

Those two small items shouldn't set you back more than £10-15 and may be the difference of 2mb, or 3mb. You seem keen to obtain better speeds, so do what you can your end to do something about it. If you keep on at Sky eventually you will also get someone that could sort it out at their end, they may be able to reduce your SNR their end to 6db, but don't know whether they would be comfortable doing that as they would want to ensure you have a stable connection, rather than a faster one.

Edited by deleted (Wed 08-Feb-12 16:39:25)

My apologies benbird if ive posted to much on here but im doing this for my 2 daughters because im not very well anymore ( if you know what i mean )

im just trying my best for them both so they wont struggle with things in the future

anyway last message now to say thanks very much for everyone who as helped me out on here

much appreciated

No worries, sorry to hear your unwell. I was just getting to the point you can order the forementioned items from the comfort of where your sat now!

Here and Here

At the bottom of this page you can get them too and a wire insertion tool for £7.86!

Edited by deleted (Wed 08-Feb-12 18:13:19)

I've just moved in to a new property and alas my downstream attenuation is reported as 61.0db by my Netgear DG834GT. However with the DGTeam firmware and Be 16 from Xilo and tweaking the SNR to 50% of default I'm getting a stable 4770kbps connection with the noise margin at about 3.0db

My friend had the same thing happen to him

but the only way he sorted it was switching to BT the DLM put on a SNR of 3db

which boosted his speed from 2150kbps to 3400Kbps.

The ringwire is part of the extension cable setup and belongs to the homeowner and therefore can be removed by anyone!

The sync is likely to go down as more people get broadband on your cable bundle, i.e. cross talk kicks in.

But that is an impressive sync speed for a 3dB margin, is it around the 4Meg mark with a 6dB target?

Got the cable today, it increased my speed by a further 200kbps! After a straigh reconnection. Not massive but still a direct improvement, thanks Mike

Actually just tweaked snr again, if it stays stable at 3db can get:

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 3638 kbps 767 kbps
Line Attenuation 61.0 db 38.0 db
Noise Margin 3.4 db 5.8 db

OMG just telnet the router and entered 65500 to give me a -9DB off the snr gave me this reading! Wont be stable though lol

[img]http://speedtest.xilo.net/result/73579/[/img]

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 4115 kbps 767 kbps
Line Attenuation 62.0 db 37.5 db
Noise Margin 0.9 db 5.8 db

Edited by deleted (Thu 09-Feb-12 19:26:48)