Can I improve my speed?

Sinclair

Sinclair

Sinclair

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Apologies for another one of these threads.

Last year I was with Be (LLU) until I left the UK for an 8 month overseas assignment. I was pretty much getting a good 2Mb/s line.

Upon my return I switched to O2 as it's the same connection and it makes sense due to the discount given for their mobile customers.
However, my speeds had dropped to just under 1.5 Mb/s

I've just fitted a ADSLNation XTE-2005 and shielded rj11 cable and there's a slight improvement.



Here are my stats:

Uptime: 0 days, 1:21:35
DSL Type: G.992.5 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 818 / 1,921
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]: 0.00 / 0.00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 12.0 / 15.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 32.5 / 66.5
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 6.5 / 6.5
Vendor ID (Local/Remote): TMMB / BDCM
Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Link (Remote): 0
Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 1 / 0
FEC Errors (Up/Down): 2 / 32,540
CRC Errors (Up/Down): 2 / 61
HEC Errors (Up/Down): 184,546 / 57

Can I squeeze any more out, or do I have to make do with what I've got?
 
Your line is probably giving the best it can. At 66.5dB you've got a really long line.
I think (short fixing an internal ring wire issue if you have one) any changes you make will mean very marginal gains.

I was in a similar position - started out with a 5.5Mb line which degraded and got worse over a few years. BT and ISP investigated, ISP could see there was an issue but BT kept sending telephone engineers (not ADSL engineers) who could find no problems.
When the most I could sync at one day was 1.5Mb I phoned VM and got 20Mb installed.

Massive shame as my ADSL ISP was top notch, they had native IPv6 assigning me a massive 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 (LOL) static addresses along with my /32 /30 /29 and /27 IPv4 ranges.
 
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