have i exhausted all my options to get good internet?

how about this:

Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 9308730 13281442 0 714 843 334:47:02
LAN 10M/100M 617151 0 0 57 0 334:47:36
WLAN 11M/54M/130M 13945231 9853651 0 1142 886 334:47:15

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 554 kbps 488 kbps
Line Attenuation 61.5 db 35.9 db
Noise Margin 9.6 db 11.5 db
 
If you are only 2 miles from the exchange you attenuation seems on the high side,
So i suspect you live a lot further from the exchange or you have a line fault.

I would do like previously suggested and connect your microfilter directly into the
test port, located behind your master socket. Quick and easy to do.
 
j_walsh said:
^ yes i know it live in sandhurst road so not far :D

p.s bit posh ? ;)
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got friends on sandhurst road! haha i'd like to think not but then again living in tunbridge wells and then spending time in more down to earth parts of the uk, people have different defintions of the word :p
 
IrishChr1s said:
If you are only 2 miles from the exchange you attenuation seems on the high side,
So i suspect you live a lot further from the exchange or you have a line fault.

I would do like previously suggested and connect your microfilter directly into the
test port, located behind your master socket. Quick and easy to do.
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i have checked and it is 3.5km or 2.17 miles as the crow flies. i will attempt to do as has been suggested.

another thing i was wondering was whether it might be down to the actual cabling on my road itself? no-one has brought this up as a potential issue but i know it is still old copper wiring and hasn't been changed. when i've complained about my speeds in the past usually the response has been, it's because of the lines on the road..
 
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Walsandrew said:
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 554 kbps 488 kbps
Line Attenuation 61.5 db 35.9 db
Noise Margin 9.6 db 11.5 db
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Appears you have a problem somewhere... I have a line similar line to yours in terms of attenuation, and my downstream is nearly 4MB whereas yours is close to 0.5MB.

Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 984 / 3,837
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 33.0 / 62.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 3.0 / 5.0

If you don't see any improvement when directly plugging in the router to the master socket, you can try a quiet line test (google for instructions). If you can hear static/hissing etc this will affect the performance of your line, and you can use this to log a voice fault with BT to get this improved (which will in turn hopefully improve your broadband).
 
as said above...that's an awful line in many respects...with a better line I'd expect you to be up to about 4 meg easily!
 
3dcandy said:
as said above...that's an awful line in many respects...with a better line I'd expect you to be up to about 4 meg easily!
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now i'm confused. what the post above appeared to be suggesting to me is that with my attenuation (similar to his) i should be expecting closer to 4 meg. what are the other factors causing it to be an 'awful line' and is there anything i can do?
 
noise margin is high, so is attenuation....which means that your sync rate is low. I'm about as far away from the exchange as you and my attenuation is at 41 and snr is at 7. I sync at just over 9 and get real world 7.90 download regularly. If you were to change the faceplate I'd expect at least a hefty speed increase
 
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