8meg no longer :~(

NathanE

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Used to sync for roughly three years 8meg/448kbit... as of today it won't go any higher than what you see in the bold text.

What's happened?
 
Nildram

I phoned them again and got through to a foreign guy but he was awesome and said his line check couldn't run because the line was engaged. Odd. So I picked up the house phone and nope - no dial tone. Picked it up a few more times and then I got a SIREN type sound coming down the line.

He recommended I call BT.

Called BT and they're saying there is an exchange fault.

Estimated response time: tomorrow

LAME! :rolleyes:
 
I just picked the phone up again and there is an awful awful siren sound. It's like there is about 10 concurrent WW2 air raid sirens running at 10x the normal speed.

I don't think my exchange has ADSL2 yet so don't think O2 would be that great for me?
 
I think that when the siren thing starts on the line it knocks the ADSL out and it then resyncs at a stupidly low rate.

When the siren isn't there the ADSL seems to sync not too bad (currently 7meg but still not my usual) and is generally fairly stable.

I think what's happened is some silly BT engineer has plugged my line into someone elses house, or in some way got the wires crossed.

My house phone has an icon showing that indicates there is another phone picked up in the house. When there isn't any other phone in the house!

PS it was BT that gave me the ETA of tomorrow.
 
Well they've "fixed" the voice line now and my ADSL is stable again. But it no longer wants to sync at 8meg. Currently it's at 7616 kbit/s and 448 kbit/s.

I guess they've moved my line onto another twisted pair that isn't as good as my last one?

Here is what my router says:

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DSL Flavour = ADSL over POTS  
    Reserved Bandwidth (kbit/s) up/down = 448 / 7616  
    Uptime = 00:05:08  
    kBytes Tx/Rx = 2256 / 1212  
 
       Properties 
      Output Power (dBm) up/down = 12.0 / 19.5  
      Attenuation (dB) up/down = 15.0 / 24.0  
      Noise Margin (dB) up/down = 25.0 / 11.5  
      Vendor Id (local/remote) = ALCB / ALCB

Are those noise margins etc OK?
 
Well actually it used to sync at 86xx something. So technically about a megabit down...

Yes I guess it is splitting hairs, afterall DSL Max only guarantees 2Mbit. But still. If you had 8meg running fine for like 2 years and then all of a sudden your line gets screwed up and as part of the fix they put you on a crapper twisted pair. You'd probably feel a bit miffed as well :p

Maybe I'm being paranoid. I never used to monitor my sync rate before to be honest. So maybe it has gone to these speed a few times before without my realising. Maybe the hot weather at the moment has something to do with it.
 
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