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You could however lower it Tolien, he'll get some extra speed out of the line at least. Now you've said you have a DG834 v3 i might have something that will help :)

Shamelessly nicked from another forum (but always in my bookmarks when playing with netgear routers):
First, get the router into debug mode:

http://192.168.0.1/setup.cgi?todo=debug - screen should appear saying ' Debug Enable!'

Then open a command window (Start --> Run... type in 'cmd')

Type 'Telnet 192.168.0.1' (or router address) - A linux busybox connection should be established.

Type 'cd usr/sbin' (cd=change directory)

Type 'ls' (list)

This is the list of commands you have to play with - adslctl is the one you want.

Type 'adslctl' for a list of suffixes

To adjust the SNR set on startup type 'adslctl start --snr xxx' xxx is a number, 130 gives me a nice stable SNR margin of 8 - which allows my SNR to drop at night without disconnecting everything - it is a good workaround until netgear upgrade their firmware.
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This command takes whatever SNR setting you have from your ISP and you can set a percentage of it to be used by your router. So if you have a 6db profile and set it to 50% it'll give you a 3db setting. This would mean higher speed but maybe more disconnections, you never know until you've played around with it yourself and see what your connection can handle.

Hope that helps :)
 
Mr Sniper said:
You could however lower it Tolien, he'll get some extra speed out of the line at least.
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If the target SNR has been increased, it's because the connection is unstable as it is, reducing the target SNR margin would only make that worse. If the issue has been fixed, getting the ISP to reset the profile would be as easy as anything.
 
Ah well it was worth a shot, it seems only the GT and the PN versions have that command from as far as i can tell, were both your routers fully up to date with the latest firmware?

True Tolien but some ISPs do it to avoid more phone calls from customers saying there internet keeps cutting out etc. Minor adjustments could be made if you want to see how far you can push it. On top of that ISPs don't give many profiles to choose from, i know Be's defaults are in mutliples of 3. You could find from your on playing that 4.5 or 5db is the best for your connection before it starts to disconnect but an ISPs profile wouldn't be able to pinpoint that.
 
It's done automatically with BTw and, last I looked changing the SNR margin upwards was a manual process, so ISPs won't do it willy-nilly, and certainly not Zen (who IMO have the among the best customer service).
 
Mr Sniper said:
Ah well it was worth a shot, it seems only the GT and the PN versions have that command from as far as i can tell, were both your routers fully up to date with the latest firmware?

True Tolien but some ISPs do it to avoid more phone calls from customers saying there internet keeps cutting out etc. Minor adjustments could be made if you want to see how far you can push it. On top of that ISPs don't give many profiles to choose from, i know Be's defaults are in mutliples of 3. You could find from your on playing that 4.5 or 5db is the best for your connection before it starts to disconnect but an ISPs profile wouldn't be able to pinpoint that.
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yeah mate latest firmware but my model is DG 834 G v1 :)
 
Tolien said:
It's done automatically with BTw and, last I looked changing the SNR margin upwards was a manual process, so ISPs won't do it willy-nilly, and certainly not Zen
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I'm with Zen and Zen did increase my SNR margin from 6 dB to 9 dB when I first went on to Max back in May last year.

I asked them to do this as I was getting dropped connections all the time especially in the evenings (I have a longish line of 55 dB attenuation)

I also asked them to put interleaving on as for some reason BT's DLM didn't seem to want to do it but it could be because Max DSL had only just been rolled out and was suffering from a few teething problems :confused:

My line has settled down now though.


Tolien said:
who IMO have the among the best customer service
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Agreed and so much better customer service than AOL who I left to go to Zen.
 
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