O2 to Sky broadband router settings

prowla

GunJack wrote: »

whilst that is cool for you and many others, people like me and spud want/need to tweak and monitor our lines for best performance... like spud I tweak my 50dB line down to 2.5dB snrm and it's perfectly stable, to get a sync speed iro 7400kb/s Using a router that allows the use of such tweak/monitor software is essential

Sky using MER authentication on top of not freely giving out user/pwords is a right pain

Sure - it's people like you that Sky are trying to dissuade!:)

My downstream speed is 6589 kbps, which is not overly impressive on an "up to" 20 Mbps service.

GunJack

but what's your line attenuation? I would suggest 48dB @ 6dB snrm? If so, and your line was stable enough, you could sync around a meg higher @ 3dB snrm

Ultimately, the "up to" doesn't matter, it's the length of your line (lower line attenuation = shorter line) that will determine speed/bandwidth, and on the same line it will be pretty much the same whichever ISP you're with

prowla

GunJack wrote: »

but what's your line attenuation? I would suggest 48dB @ 6dB snrm? If so, and your line was stable enough, you could sync around a meg higher @ 3dB snrm

Ultimately, the "up to" doesn't matter, it's the length of your line (lower line attenuation = shorter line) that will determine speed/bandwidth, and on the same line it will be pretty much the same whichever ISP you're with

Mine says:

Port     Status     TxPkts     RxPkts     Collisions     Tx B/s     Rx B/s     Up Time
WAN     PPPoA     2850868     1619980     0     0     268     13:18:49
LAN     Up     8614719     6021175     0     8595     1618     442:37:36
WLAN     Up     0     0     0     0     0     442:37:13
Broadband Link     Downstream     Upstream
Connection Speed     6589 kbps     798 kbps
Line Attenuation     50.0 dB     29.6 dB
Noise Margin     5.1 dB     14.5 dB

spud17

Could tweak it some more , but currently rock steady.

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 7476 kbps 1243 kbps
Line Attenuation 51.0 db 30.1 db
Noise Margin 3.6 db 6.3 db

A.Penny.Saved

prowla wrote: »

Mine says:

Port     Status     TxPkts     RxPkts     Collisions     Tx B/s     Rx B/s     Up Time
WAN     PPPoA     2850868     1619980     0     0     268     13:18:49
LAN     Up     8614719     6021175     0     8595     1618     442:37:36
WLAN     Up     0     0     0     0     0     442:37:13
Broadband Link     Downstream     Upstream
Connection Speed     6589 kbps     798 kbps
Line Attenuation     50.0 dB     29.6 dB
Noise Margin     5.1 dB     14.5 dB

That is nearly as bad as mine My upload speed is now only 60% of what it was recently. I did not pay too much attention to the connection stats but I am certain they were actually better than I had while on Be*. Now they are a lot worse. I am currently using the Be* 585 router because lightning destroyed my 546 and I could not get my 2nd 546 working with Be for some reason. My 716 I cannot find the PSU.

Maximum Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:896 / 6,704
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:796 / 5,575
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]:0.00 / 0.00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:10.5 / 0.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:27.0 / 51.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:11.5 / 6.0
Vendor ID (Local/Remote):TMMB / GSPN

I was on a 3dB profile and they have now stuck me onto a 6dB profile. The upload SN margin I don't know why that is as bad as it is but explains where all my upload speed has vanished to.

Is there any hope of getting this connection back to what I had while on Be*?

A.Penny.Saved

24 unused tones. I'm not in the slightest bit impressed. Nothing can be tweaked on the 585.

prowla

A.Penny.Saved wrote: »

That is nearly as bad as mine My upload speed is now only 60% of what it was recently. I did not pay too much attention to the connection stats but I am certain they were actually better than I had while on Be*. Now they are a lot worse. I am currently using the Be* 585 router because lightning destroyed my 546 and I could not get my 2nd 546 working with Be for some reason. My 716 I cannot find the PSU.

Maximum Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:896 / 6,704
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:796 / 5,575
Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [kB/kB]:0.00 / 0.00
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:10.5 / 0.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:27.0 / 51.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:11.5 / 6.0
Vendor ID (Local/Remote):TMMB / GSPN

I was on a 3dB profile and they have now stuck me onto a 6dB profile. The upload SN margin I don't know why that is as bad as it is but explains where all my upload speed has vanished to.

Is there any hope of getting this connection back to what I had while on Be*?

Well, my solution was to get Virgin BB; I've got 60 Mb (to be 100 later in the year), and I expense it at work.

I'd had a number of issues with Sky and they gave me a year's free line rental to compensate (roughly equivalent to the cost of BB), which expired some months back.

Sky has been stable but unimpressive, and it suits me to have both options as a failsafe (two different providers down different wires), since I work from home.

I've been thinking about ditching the Sky BB and phone though, and I might get around to it some time.