In reply to a post by Mayrhofen:

Would I be right in thinking then that would explain why we rarely see 1mb these days as we have been moved automatically to ADSL2+. The drop in download speed occured at the same time as the upload speed increased?

Very probably. (You didn't tell us it used to connect faster ).

If you scroll down to the bottom of this page it tells you how to get the fiull line stats from the Netgear. Though all we need to know that you didn't include in your opening post is whether it is connecting on ADSL2+ or ADSL2.

If it is on ADSL2+ then you can force it down to ADSL2, which should give you back better download speed and keep the higher upload.

Hi

Thanks for that link.

I have download DMT and the following is what I am seeing:

adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 8000
Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 723 Kbps, Downstream rate = 783 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: ADSL2
Channel: Fast
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 5.7 5.2
Attn(dB): 68.5 37.1
Pwr(dBm): 0.0 12.9
Max(Kbps): 1020 700
Rate (Kbps): 783 723
G.dmt framing
K: 25(0) 22
R: 0 0
S: 1 1
D: 1 1
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 60 13
B: 24 21
M: 1 1
T: 1 4
R: 0 0
S: 0.9803 0.9617
L: 204 183
D: 1 1
Counters
SF: 47678874 42848633
SFErr: 71823 10
RS: 0 0
RSCorr: 0 0
RSUnCorr: 0 0

HEC: 14303 14
OCD: 30 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 1424951897 1002937
Data Cells: 113713216 8701
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 739


Got to say I have not got a clue what the above means so hoping you can translate to English for me.

Thanks

Paul

That's great but not really any good news there.

Some of it is the ordinary stats, which you have. On Netgears you can't always trust it when it says Fast (Path), as it always reports the upstream setting, which usually is Fast. But the line D: 1 1 shows it is Fast Path in both directions.

It says ADSL2, not 2+, so the only other alternative is to try ADSL. I think you should ask Namesco to try that. Though I don't really expect it to help. What speed did you used to get, before the upstream increased?

Remember for highest speed always connect during daylight .

Edit - have you checked through my Troubleshooting section, particularly the Ring wire and Miscellaneous nasties pages?

Edited by RobertoS (Thu 17-May-12 20:12:14)