Oh man why did I move house :(

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A[L]C

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Ok so moving from a 2 bed flat to a lovely little village 3 bed sounds great.....until your realise the broadband speed you are going to get!

I've gone from a 100mb virgin connection to 0.9meg! Arghhhh.

Gonna have a play as although it's a long way to the exchange, my line is 54 attenuation which I think should give me a little more than 0.9 meg.

Any tips?

Already done the ring wire.
 
First thing to do is try the master socket and the test socket behind it to eliminate any potential extension wiring.

I used to be on a line with 56dB attenuation and still got around 3 to 3.5Mbit sync out of it most of the time.
 
I was in the same boat, went from 50mb VM fibre to 1.2Mb LLU as I was 5 miles from the exchange with FTC due in 2050 I think?

Luckily our little village has some very wealthy millionaires so we had a private fibre fed from the school, and we have radio wifi accross the village, giving us all approx 30mb ... bets thing since sliced bread!
 
Just tried the master socket.....

Modem Status: Connected
DownStream Connection Speed: 4054 kbps
UpStream Connection Speed: 606 kbps

Line Attenuation: 54.5 dB
Noise Margin: 6.9 dB

That's the best I'm going to get I guess
 
Terrier_Jimlad said:
I was in the same boat, went from 50mb VM fibre to 1.2Mb LLU as I was 5 miles from the exchange with FTC due in 2050 I think?

Luckily our little village has some very wealthy millionaires so we had a private fibre fed from the school, and we have radio wifi accross the village, giving us all approx 30mb ... bets thing since sliced bread!
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Yeah we have plenty of them. The houses within 0.5 miles for sale at the moment are all above 1 million!

Who did the radio wifi?
 
What does the bt checker estimate your speed at?

I also use to get around 56db attenuation & 3.5Mb -4Mb at my last place.

A filtered faceplate might help a bit more, I use to use a XTE2005, gave me a slight boost.
 
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If your router will let you tweak the SNR, you'll get a bit faster at 3dB

Also, its worthwile trying different filters. Some of them can add/subtract .5MB
 
BT checker says 1-3 meg, so 4 meg is above that. Still a big drop but I'll have to learn to live with it :D
 
Yeah 3-4Mbit is gonna be what your gonna get - maybe 4.5mbit if you have a router like the DG834 with a good chipset and ability to tweak the SNR target. Its about useable speeds for most stuff.

Or if your not too worried about the odd drop out can tweak it for another 1-2Mbit on that.
 
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Well as you have discovered 0.9 is wrong - have you found out why the master socket works OK ? (or doesn't it matter ?)

I have 63db and sync at around 3.7

With BT's stupid BRAS profiles it's worth trying to push for the higher level if you are near it.
 
I'm running a Billion 7800n, and I have the following stats:

Parameters
DSP Firmware Version A2pB025f.d22k
DMT Status No Defect
Operational Mode ADSL2+
Upstream 1148
Downstream 4189
SNR Margin(Upstream) 6.5
SNR Margin(Downstream) 6.6
Line Attenuation(Upstream) 35.5
Line Attenuation(Downstream) 57.0

If I drop my line to 3dB I get another 400-500 on the download.
 
A[L]C;22673544 said:
New isp is sky. Friend has a dg834 I'm going to try. Cheers lads
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You do know you will have to extract your username and password from the sky supplied router first right?:)
3rd party routers are not technically supported but Sky don`t `seem` to care atm
 
Provided it's a DG834GT of DG834G v4 then the router will have a Broadcom chipset and be good for the connection speed.

If the speed is significantly better in the master socket then you might want to look at your wiring. Any extension using sub standard flat cable will attenuate the signal and add extra noise to your line, thereby reducing your speed. You may have one extension that's dragging the whole lot down.
 
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