Here are the stats since I last posted, with reagrds to your comments about contacting BT to get the SNR lowered

Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoE 448731 703319 0 113 709 257:30:18
LAN 10M/100M 200999 0 0 23 0 257:30:42
WLAN 11M/54M 810175 660767 0 720 138 257:30:31

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 1856 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 60 db 15.5 db
Noise Margin 11 db 6 db

The line profile remains at 1500

Just as a matter of interest y neighbour who is with BT has after many visit from the engineers got a connection speed of 4MB seems strange .

Any help you could give to get the line back to what I use to be would be MOST helpful.

From your first post...

I should be able to get upto 3mb and used to previously

During the first 10 days of the life of a Max connection the MSR is determined based on the lowest sync achieved over that time. If the sync drops to consistanly below 70% of that rate then BT will accept a line fault report. If yours really did used to manage 3Mbps then it sounds like something has gone wrong (and it seems it must have raised your attenuation as 3Mbps on 60dB is unlikely imo)

IMO you need to ask Entanet to find out what BT recorded as your MSR and if you are now below 70% of that get a fault raised.

HI There thanks for your reply as I am a silver surfer etc and have only just recenlty been trying to understand the figurs and abrreviations used in the ADSL world I can only go on what my connection speeds where prior to March 2007, it is only since i have found out how toget these figure that I realised . my dowm speed was back in 2007 very good see here . Preior to that dat I had been with PIPEX ( sorry, and long long story )
I posted the stat because Mr Safffron told me in a previous post that HE could get BT to lower the SNR or have I misunderstood him??? ( Quite likely) I raised several faults with my ISP ( Entanet ) who I must admit have been very good in trying to assist. I am at now trying to get things back towhere they used to be . All my neigbours seeem to be getting better results than me and I find it hard to see the reason why .
I have tried three different routers ( on advice ) but that does not seem to make any difference, removed ALL the surplus wiring from the house ( plug in BT TEST SOCKET ) and bought good quality filters and wiring .
ANY ADVICE WELCOME

Ask Entanet what the MSR is for your line. This is the Maximum Stable Rate recorded in its initial 10 days of operation on Max. If the current speed is less than this then it is a fault and should be reported as such.


Connection Speed 1856 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 60 db 15.5 db
Noise Margin 11 db 6 db

while not the best 1.8M on 60 dB attenuation isn't bad. 60 dB used to be the 512k limit then it became the 1M limit, to give some context.

I'm not sure whether the 6 dB margin refers to upstream or downstream, some web interfaces have these reversed.

Thanks for your reply and explanations thwey ahve been helpful to an old guy trying to come to terms with this modern phrasiology and gizmos .

the 6db refers to the upstream
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 1856 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 60 db 15.5 db
Noise Margin 12 db 6 db

What I find quite amazing is the variation over the past weeks months as to the line profile.
and I seem not to be able to get any explanation to it.

When the profile drops like it has then I call my help desk who are incidently very good and things revert back after a few hours to this .
I just wished I could get the speed I used to get when I first joined.