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ulmo · 18-04-2009, 16:43

Thanks for the responses. Chicken - just followed the parts about plugging into the test socket on the 'first' socket in the house and got more or less exactly the same stats. The downstream changed a tiny bit, but upstream was identical and all the attenuation and noise stayed the same. I guess that confirms that its not the wiring in the house thats the problem ! (should hope not either - I did it myself and tested each wire with multimeter on diode setting to check all the wiring after the first socket).
By the way, the first socket is wired more or less as the link in your post describes....seems to be six or eight core wire coming into the house with only orange and white cables actually in use (two wires only connected to terminals with capacitor directly adjacent).

Broadbandings...thanks for confirming that the line seems ok. Much appreciated.

Kingdavera - thanks for the ideas. Its a netgear dg834 router (see http://www.netgear.com/Products/Rout...Specifications). Supports adsl 2+. Have tried switching filters to different ones and even tried different computers to no avail (not that I was really expecting the latter to make much difference with a 0.8Mb bottleneck !

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Any other ideas ? Is the speed that the router is measuring 'all the way back to the exchange' or is it just measuring something to one of those big green cabinets in the street ? Could it still be a case of crap equipment at the exchange ? or between the cabinet and the exchange ? or does the problem definitely lie elsewhere?

Thanks all.

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p.s. not sure I get your meaning about running towards 'Be' Dave. Who ?

18-04-2009, 16:43	#7
ulmo Inactive Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 15	Re: virgin adsl - why can't I seem to get speeds over 1Mb Thanks for the responses. Chicken - just followed the parts about plugging into the test socket on the 'first' socket in the house and got more or less exactly the same stats. The downstream changed a tiny bit, but upstream was identical and all the attenuation and noise stayed the same. I guess that confirms that its not the wiring in the house thats the problem ! (should hope not either - I did it myself and tested each wire with multimeter on diode setting to check all the wiring after the first socket). By the way, the first socket is wired more or less as the link in your post describes....seems to be six or eight core wire coming into the house with only orange and white cables actually in use (two wires only connected to terminals with capacitor directly adjacent). Broadbandings...thanks for confirming that the line seems ok. Much appreciated. Kingdavera - thanks for the ideas. Its a netgear dg834 router (see http://www.netgear.com/Products/Rout...Specifications). Supports adsl 2+. Have tried switching filters to different ones and even tried different computers to no avail (not that I was really expecting the latter to make much difference with a 0.8Mb bottleneck ! ). Any other ideas ? Is the speed that the router is measuring 'all the way back to the exchange' or is it just measuring something to one of those big green cabinets in the street ? Could it still be a case of crap equipment at the exchange ? or between the cabinet and the exchange ? or does the problem definitely lie elsewhere? Thanks all. ---------- Post added at 16:43 ---------- Previous post was at 16:31 ---------- p.s. not sure I get your meaning about running towards 'Be' Dave. Who ?