Broadband not broad enough!

GunJack

techno12 wrote: »

Some things to try perhaps...

1) A shielded telephone cable from the test socket to the router. I got an extra 2 or 3 Mbps when I was on O2 ADSL by replacing the normal telephone cable for a shielded Belkin one (it's silver and is a similar thickness to a LAN cable - I'm still using it today for my Plusnet Fibre).

2) Try a different router - some are 'better' than others at connecting. I seem to recall those with Broadcom chipsets would achieve higher connection speeds at my exchange when I was with Sky (as the kit at the exchange used Broadcom too). I never bothered changing mine though as I was already syncing at max speed, but could be worth a try if you can borrow one.

With a line attenuation of AT LEAST 63.5dB you will never get a sync speed increased by 2-3meg, the line could only achieve a max of around 1.5meg anyway.....

elektra

You may get a little improvement by removing the 'bell' wire

see http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm

It worked for me. I went from 1.5Mbps to 2.2Mbps

GunJack

elektra wrote: »

You may get a little improvement by removing the 'bell' wire

see http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/socket.htm

It worked for me. I went from 1.5Mbps to 2.2Mbps

this should have been done as a matter of course

grumpycrab

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elektra

GunJack wrote: »

this should have been done as a matter of course

I wish I had known about it years earlier! Now on fibre though.

kwikbreaks

By optimising everything such as trying several routers to discover which works best with the line, fitting a filtered faceplate, possibly even a screened lead (although IMO these are close to snake oil) there will only be at most a few hundred kbps improvement in sync and maybe less.

Moving on to a "tweakable" router that allows you to work with just a 3dB margin instead of 6dB with probably less stability may add a tad more but whatever is done it's unlikely a sync of over 2Mbps could ever be achieved and that still wouldn't allow multiple reliable video streams.

As the OP isn't complaining about dropouts and the line seems to be operating at the default 6dB target margin there is every likelihood that little can be done with the internal wiring although a filtered faceplate or removal of all ring wires and avoiding any plugin extensions is never a waste of effort for ensuring stability and getting the best sync. Even making sure to only resync during the hours of daylight can help.

The only possible hope is that the rollout of fibre to rural locations may eventually sort this out. Failing that it would be satellite broadband which is expensive and has its own issues such as poor latency.