Firstly this is on an adsl max (Tiscali) line through a DG834GT, until Be finally enable my exchange in 8 weeks time (so adsl 2+ soon). Anyway, this is more curiosity than problem.
It was a totally new line installed 10 years back (the exchange too, it burn down 7 years back
) i.e. no bell wire but it is a first floor flat which unfortunately means the line runs past neighbours who have equipment from the stone age that could interfere with nasa. The router is on a 2m lead on top of the master socket but it and the filter are the cheap ones that came with it. Oh and the junction boxes love to die each time it rain around here.
To the point, this is a small town, i'm 1.1km from the exchange but only get a stable 5.5mb/s with these stats:
Upstream Downstream
Connection Speed 8128 kbps 448 kbps
Line Annuation 35.0 db 19.5 db
Noise Margin 9.4 db 23.0 db
I'm adding a XTE-2005 faceplate and shielded Belkin rj11* lead but what i'm really wondering is how much is down to the cheap connections my end (and interference) and how much is down to the isp limiting the line speed e.g. 7.1 > 5.5 or have i missed something rather obvious? My previous experience with their tech support is it's as effective as talking to a tree stump but even their own line checker listed this area as 8meg, in fact the rather conservative Bt Wholesale sale also list 8 while every adsl estimater i could find (accuracey, i know) cheerfuly points out the throughput is slower than what they'd exepct for these line stats.
So any thoughts/advice/experience as to how much, and how, i could improve upon this would be appreciated
*I realise these won't make a massive difference now but it will once Be get here, besides i still get the occasional random connection drops.
It was a totally new line installed 10 years back (the exchange too, it burn down 7 years back
) i.e. no bell wire but it is a first floor flat which unfortunately means the line runs past neighbours who have equipment from the stone age that could interfere with nasa. The router is on a 2m lead on top of the master socket but it and the filter are the cheap ones that came with it. Oh and the junction boxes love to die each time it rain around here.To the point, this is a small town, i'm 1.1km from the exchange but only get a stable 5.5mb/s with these stats:
Upstream Downstream
Connection Speed 8128 kbps 448 kbps
Line Annuation 35.0 db 19.5 db
Noise Margin 9.4 db 23.0 db
I'm adding a XTE-2005 faceplate and shielded Belkin rj11* lead but what i'm really wondering is how much is down to the cheap connections my end (and interference) and how much is down to the isp limiting the line speed e.g. 7.1 > 5.5 or have i missed something rather obvious? My previous experience with their tech support is it's as effective as talking to a tree stump but even their own line checker listed this area as 8meg, in fact the rather conservative Bt Wholesale sale also list 8 while every adsl estimater i could find (accuracey, i know) cheerfuly points out the throughput is slower than what they'd exepct for these line stats.
So any thoughts/advice/experience as to how much, and how, i could improve upon this would be appreciated
*I realise these won't make a massive difference now but it will once Be get here, besides i still get the occasional random connection drops.
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, 8128. No speed tests, the line simply runs at 5.5 all day long, with a tiny increase to near 6 at about 8am. Only thing that changes is the snr which is 9.2 in the mornings, but other than that it's a flat 5.5 =(
