In the sticks = awful broadband. Anything I can do?

PapaLazaru said:
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Thanks, it was mighty delicious :)
 
Bet you're chuffed with the improvement.

Would using a filtered face plate make any difference compared to filters (if the sort with a short cable that filter hangs from)? As it reduces amount of joints along cable connecting router.
 
Bane said:
Bet you're chuffed with the improvement.

Would using a filtered face plate make any difference compared to filters (if the sort with a short cable that filter hangs from)? As it reduces amount of joints along cable connecting router.
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I am very happy with the improvement. I am double my previous with minimal cost.

I do have a filter box which hangs off the face plate. Thought I would take a piccy of the mess I have made. Will certainly have a peek about for one. :)

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on any bt nte (main socket) or extensions you dont need the bell wire any more, just have the 2 wires to 2 & 5 on the socket and to the frontplate (for extensions), always have the router into the master socket if possible, a lot of extensions are either cheapo argos specials or old as the hills and can cause a lot of loss with bband speed

glad you have had a major boost :)
 
G1BB0 said:
on any bt nte (main socket) or extensions you dont need the bell wire any more, just have the 2 wires to 2 & 5 on the socket and to the frontplate (for extensions), always have the router into the master socket if possible, a lot of extensions are either cheapo argos specials or old as the hills and can cause a lot of loss with bband speed

glad you have had a major boost :)
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I would have cut them but it is not my socket unfortunately as renting.

I ordered a proper BT iPlate yesterday on the Bay and it has just turned up. Really easy to fit, looks a lot better than my previous picture!

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Job done. :)
 
4mb profile on a 63.5+ attenuation :eek:, if the router manages to maintain a regular connection speed of around 4500+ then well done indeed. :cool:
 
Indeed, I'd suspect the router is misreporting things again, as that's an incredible sync for the atten. A speedtest is in order tbh!
 
I got 6000kbps on a 54db attenuation the other day when O2 put me on G.992.1 annex A for a 4hr test. So it may just be possible on a perfect line.


 
Your speed test is about right, accounting for overheads etc.

Very nice :) You reckon you'd be able to post the full router stats for us, should be in Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Display detailed ADSL driver informations -> Display
 
benftl said:
Your speed test is about right, accounting for overheads etc.

Very nice :) You reckon you'd be able to post the full router stats for us, should be in Maintenance -> Diagnostics -> Display detailed ADSL driver informations -> Display
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Of course. :)

/usr/sbin/adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 1
Channel: INTR, Upstream rate = 448 Kbps, Downstream rate = 4320 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: G.DMT
Channel: Interleave
Trellis: ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 6.7 11.0
Attn(dB): 63.5 31.5
Pwr(dBm): 19.1 12.3
Max(Kbps): 4864 788
Rate (Kbps): 4320 448
G.dmt framing
K: 136(0) 15
R: 16 16
S: 1 8
D: 32 4
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 1 1
B: 144 15
M: 1 8
T: 1 1
R: 16 16
S: 1.1103 9.0000
L: 1160 128
D: 32 4
Counters
SF: 728649 728653
SFErr(CRCErr): 261 15
RS: 49548162 6192505
RSCorr: 1183492 275
RSUnCorr: 12890 0

HEC: 230 13
OCD: 25 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 126188938 0
Data Cells: 6157985 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 268 0
SES: 38 0
UAS: 38 0
AS(Uptime): 12387

INP: 1.76 2.00
PER: 1.94 1.96
delay: 8.88 9.00
OR: 28.81 28.44

Bitswap: 0 0
Total uptime: 82677

Total time = 22 hours 58 min 56 sec
SF = 4863190
CRC = 3193
LOS = 2
LOF = 18
ES = 268
Latest 1 day time = 22 hours 58 min 56 sec
SF = 4863190
CRC = 3193
LOS = 2
LOF = 18
ES = 268
Latest 15 minutes time = 13 min 56 sec
SF = 49206
CRC = 3
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 3
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 2
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 1
Previous 1 day time = 0 sec
SF = 0
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 8
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 5
15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 4
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 2
15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52982
CRC = 3
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 2
Showtime Drop Reason: 1
Last Retrain Reason: 1
 
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Ah you're on ADSL1, that's cool, I was gonna suggest 'downgrading' from ADSL2 if you were on it to try and gain some speed, but there's no need for it :)

Congrats.
 
Cheers.

Hopefully some others will read this with bad speeds, as it just proves that you CAN get better speeds by doing a few tweaks.

Got to love these forums. Thanks to everybody who has contibuted. :cool:
 
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MFrost said:
Haha! You think that's awful?! Think yourself lucky!! This is my BROADBAND speeds since my neighbour had his landline installed the other day.



I also live in the sticks like you and used to get about 80kb/s to 120kb/s on a good day. I'm struggling to do anything on the net at the moment - i've even resorted to turning images over 100x100px off when browsing the majority of the time to try and make it bareable. :(
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I had exactly the same thing at my old flat.

Never did get to the bottom of it, i even paid bt to install a new line and it was still the same!

So painful that slow.
 
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