thak you all for your help i will see what are my options and see if i can get any faster downloads if not i will have to wait for fibre optics in the grove ,funny though how thw house at the top can recieve virgins fibre optics yet i cant. Anyway thanks for the help guys

i see your downstream attenuation has changed from 36 to 63, was that just a typo in the first post?

The next step would be to request a 6db SNRmargin, i think its called a 24FSNR6 profile. You can request via the talktalk member's forum I am lead to believe.

Leaving it in the test socket is fine, using a filter if you have a landline connected. This does disable any internal extensions though, so if you have these then you probably want a filtered faceplate and disconnect the ringwire (mentioned earlier)

edit: Looking at that profile the F might be for fastpath which could do more harm than good. The SNR6 thing is the main thing, but I'm guessing the member's forum OCE's know what to do

Edited by deleted (Thu 17-May-12 23:46:27)

here are my new stats for router

Mode Routing
ADSL Mode ADSL2
ADSL Type Annex A
Status Up

Downstream Upstream
Rate(Kbps) 2391 471

SNR Margin(dB) 8.3 11.8
Attenuation(dB) 37.9 62.0
Output Power(dBm) 0 12

Super Frames 3398892 3398893
RS Correctable Errors 56663 0
RS Uncorrectable Errors 0 0

HEC Errors 0 0
Total Cells 59471 8471
Data Cells 964578 87948
Bit Errors 0 0


i never made a typo b4 as ive just copied and pasted my results.

I have left the faceplate off and have connected upto to test line which is giving me extra speed and ping test give reuslts of "A" which is good. When i took off the faceplate what ive seen wasnt very nice alot of dirt and wires are very old, i checked number 3 for the bell wire but it isnt orange at all as shown in link

i have removed bell wire and speed is showing up as 2.6mb on webpages i am getting 2.2mb.

My wiring is pre 1980 so is old wiring and colours are different to the usual images you see of the wires. Will be left to me to fix the wiring as i got no clue in whats what as i thought bt were responible for the wires the master socket is upstairs so how would i go about getting the wires changed

Getting BT to do the extension wiring may cost you over £100
If lifting the wire (no matter what colour) from pin 3 has helped, then no need to change much of anything else.

If you want further advice, best to get a clear picture of the wiring at both ends and then people can visually check it for you.

Old wiring in itself is not really a problem.

Does the external BT dropwire enter the property near this master socket?

here new stats only thing changed is bell wire rmeoved and connected back up as normal not through test line will check that out tomorrow. I changed from adsl to adsl2=




Mode Routing
ADSL Mode ADSL2+
ADSL Type Annex A
Status Up

Downstream Upstream
Rate(Kbps) 2519 476

SNR Margin(dB) 8.3 11.7
Attenuation(dB) 38.0 57.0
Output Power(dBm) 0 12

Super Frames 459705 459706
RS Correctable Errors 11607 65496
RS Uncorrectable Errors 0 0

HEC Errors 0 0
Total Cells 9694 893
Data Cells 127746 16729
Bit Errors 0 0