Enough... I've deleted two posts already with gross evasions of the swear filter, and another that quoted the offending word, any more and some abilities to post are likely to be severely curtailed.

Sub-thread closed.

anarchist125,
It seems your downstream SNR is set at Talktalk's default level of 12 db. I suggest you call level 2 support again and ask them to put you on a 6db fastpath profile. Your sync speed should now be at least 15 meg, any lower then your wiring is not optimised and you will need to investigate this further.

Futaura/baby_frogmella

You may be onto something with the wiring. My apartment does have a few BT sockets around, but these are completely unused and aren't dodgy extensions (they were fitted when the apartment was built, just a few years back).

I'll check the test socket and get onto TT with the noise profile info.

Cheers

Its not really whether there is a phone in the socket, the mere presence of the wires can pick up noise that affects the DSL signal...hence testing in the test socket (if I recall an old TalkTalk booklet this was a fault finding step in the book)

In reply to a post by anarchist125:

b) Congratulations on using a web form. I managed to do that all by myself. Realistically that means nothing to TalkTalk though as I explained so again, unhelpful.

Just take the 16 Meg estimated by Kitz and subtract about 2 Meg to allow for your NM = 12 dB instead of the standard 6dB assumed by Kitz.

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In reply to a post by Deputy_Dog:

Don't waste your time reading any Jack_Hackett posts. He's learnt his online etiquette at the school of TalkTalk telephone support.

As I said in my ealier post to get the issue sorted go to the Talktalkmembers forums where the OCE's do have a good reputation for sorting problems out. It can take a few days over the internet but it is far more successful than telephone support.

Ha ha, you may have stumbled onto something there, he does always seem a bit keen to post garbage in any thread that isn't praising the lord for giving us TT

I must say I am pleased that the moderator has deleted some of Jack's posts. Frankly I think he should be banned outright!

If you do the same thing 3 or 4 times with the same result then yes, you can quite easily suggest a cause and effect.

Do you honestly think TalkTalk were stalling for 2 hrs so they could get a call into BTw to get an engineer to go to the exchange and change something physically there?

No, that isn't likely, which leaves the change happening somewhere within TalkTalk's network....ie somewhere under their control.....something that can be changed using a software or hardware switch.

The OP is quite entitled to his beliefs in this matter.

. Frankly I think he should be banned outright!

Obviously the mods didn't so your thoughts are irrelevant, now back to your bridge troll boy.

In reply to a post by Jack_Hackett:

. Frankly I think he should be banned outright!

Obviously the mods didn't so your thoughts are irrelevant, now back to your bridge troll boy.

Yet another post directed at the poster rather than the topic... we can always change our minds.

In reply to a post by billford:

In reply to a post by Jack_Hackett:

. Frankly I think he should be banned outright!

Obviously the mods didn't so your thoughts are irrelevant, now back to your bridge troll boy.

Yet another post directed at the poster rather than the topic... we can always change our minds.

Bill can you explain why it is OK for him to hijack the thread calling for me to be banned but it is not OK for me to reply to his trolling post directly?

Edited by Jack_Hackett (Wed 09-Feb-11 18:22:33)