I don't know if there are any BT engineers on here, but my olds have always had a very slow and laggy broadband connection.
The house is an 1800's house with some very suspect-looking wiring coming into the house via this ancient-looking linebox, with what looks like some fuses inside!!
Router stats are reporting the following:-
Down - 1376Kbps
Up - 448 Kbps
Downstream Margin - 12db
Upstream Margin - 22db
Downstream Att - 48
Upstream Att - 29
The house has an overhead cable to a pole which goes directly into one of those green boxes.
I realise we are some 3.5km from the exchange but this sort of speed is ridiculous in this age.
I'm going to have to converse with the ISP on behalf of my olds, but do you think a decent NTE5 linebox etc would improve things? I realise this is a BT-only job.
Your thoughts would be appreciated, esp on the above router stats, as I don't really know how to interpret them.
FWIW, I live 200m down the road and my router reports are as follows:-
Down - 3104Kbps
Up - 448 Kbps
Downstream Margin - 9.4db
Upstream Margin - 19db
Downstream Att - 63
Upstream Att - 29
which gives a half-decent service.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The house is an 1800's house with some very suspect-looking wiring coming into the house via this ancient-looking linebox, with what looks like some fuses inside!!


Router stats are reporting the following:-
Down - 1376Kbps
Up - 448 Kbps
Downstream Margin - 12db
Upstream Margin - 22db
Downstream Att - 48
Upstream Att - 29
The house has an overhead cable to a pole which goes directly into one of those green boxes.
I realise we are some 3.5km from the exchange but this sort of speed is ridiculous in this age.
I'm going to have to converse with the ISP on behalf of my olds, but do you think a decent NTE5 linebox etc would improve things? I realise this is a BT-only job.
Your thoughts would be appreciated, esp on the above router stats, as I don't really know how to interpret them.
FWIW, I live 200m down the road and my router reports are as follows:-
Down - 3104Kbps
Up - 448 Kbps
Downstream Margin - 9.4db
Upstream Margin - 19db
Downstream Att - 63
Upstream Att - 29
which gives a half-decent service.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.