We need more speed....

[Shelster]

Have just swapped my 02 Wireless Box for a Billion 7800N in the hope of eaking out the last bit of speed from my ADSL2 line.

I live about 13 light years (well, 6km) form the exchange, so know I will never have lighting fast speeds and BT says that the exchange I am on is taking orders for Infinity at the moment, although the BT sales page says it is still unavailable, but can wait a few weeks as supposed to go live on 31 Dec 11.

At present the stats I am getting form the router are

DSP Firmware - A2pB035f.d22k
Upstream - 818
Downstream - 2980
SNR Margin Upstream - 8.9
SNR Margin Downstream - 9.3
Line Attenuation Upstream - 38.2
Line Attenuation Downstream - 61.5

As for wiring in the house, I am connected straight form the BT test socket, via filter to router, with only house phone connected to phone side of filter.

Are there any magic settings i can change to get the most out of my line, or does it look like this is all I will get until i can get Infinity?

Cheers

 

[Shelster]

Just a brief update by myself on this.

Did a bit of Googling and found a post here about it.

Changed my default setting from -1 to 1, which is quoted on there by someone in a similar position and am now getting

Upstream - 818
Downstream - 4192
SNR up - 9.2
SNR Down - 3.3
Attenuation is the same, but wasn't expecting that to change as cant alter the cabling can I.

All in all, a good increase me thinks.

Will keep a very close eye on it to monitor the stability of the connection, but so far, all looks good

 

[entail]

you might find you will start dropping out a lot. SNR should be around 6, i would only consider SNR dropping to 3 for lines less than a KM long.

 

[Skidilliplop]

One thing you could try is "the orange wire hack". I.E disconnecting the bell wire in the master socket so it doesn't work as a masive inductor for line noise.

This often cleans the line quality up a fair bit. Plenty of how-tos on the webnets. I'm not starting yet another step by step tutorial on here.