BB Speed advice... very old house/cabling..

[killie99]

What exchange are you on? Just thought that the problem might be your exchange doesn't support MAX adsl.
When you run the samknows checker does it say "your exchange is also enabled for ADSL Max services"?

[Gr44]

Thanks for the reply Killie99!

Glad to hear it's all looking good!

I had a play around last night ( and I'm in work late today because of it! ). My master socket is not a NET5 one I don't think. The faceplate has a fixed connection on it that plugs into the rear plate and then on the front plate there were 3 wires running under the floor ( to goto the slave sockets ).

Last night I tried removing the 'bell wire' this made marginal differance - I also took out the front plate and plugged the router into the master socket ( removing all slaves i believe ) this again made little differance. To be honest the small increases surprised me because we have slave sockets all over our house with quite a few phones plugged in!!

My exchange is fully enabled for everything ADSL wise ( Dunstable - Midlands ). BT are saying I'm on MAX ADSL but I'll phone them up again in a minute and have a rant at them... see if we can't get this double checked!!

Will let you know the outcome! : )

[Horrorwood]

From those line stats, you can get 14mb to 18mb from Be.

I would defiantly go to bethere. You don't have to do anything about your houses wiring or the telephone socket. Those line stats are excellent.

Sign up to bethere now!

[k_test]

Hi Gr44,

How did you get all the info from your 300n as I cannot seem to get it. Could you help me please.

I am referring to Below :

Thanks

# adslctl info --stats
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 288 Kbps, Downstream rate = 227
2 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: G.DMT
Channel: Fast
Trellis: ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 28.2 29.0
Attn(dB): 23.0 13.0
Pwr(dBm): 16.0 11.9
Max(Kbps): 10528 1196
Rate (Kbps): 2272 288
G.dmt framing
K: 72(0) 10
R: 0 0
S: 1 1
D: 1 1
ADSL2 framing

[moogle]

On the samknows, I just get the exchange postcode and use google earth to see how far my house is as the crow flies and how far by road. I'm about 600m (crow) and I think 900m roughly by road, I just tweaked my modem I got with Be and I'm getting just over 8 meg
its worth a try if you can get be, its £14 for the 8 meg and if you can get 2meg from bt I'm sure you can get 2meg from them at least and for cheaper with a faster upload. but yes i know your not aiming for 2 meg but I don't see how you can't get it unless your bt connection has lots of noise.

[merdat]

Well GR44, Before you run off and change to another provider I would pursue why with your good figures you are only getting 2 m . Killie99 is correct , you should be getting about 6-7 meg with those figs. If you have connected your router on at the master socket and disconnected the rest of your internal wiring then I can only assume that your Bras profile is stuck or your router is holding you back . ( all router are not the same i.e. some are better than others). Ask BT to reset your Profile (bras setting) and see if that makes any difference. If they do this it will take about 3-5 days for the line to settle down to a happy speed.