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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Well done Broadbandings for the backdoor to these stats.
Just what I was looking for. Stuart knows what's coming next. What are her neighbour Sarah's stats? He needs ammunition to get BT out to look at the attentuation on what I take to be his pole strung segment (damp, rust, etc).
Downstream attenuation needs to be < 50 dB to have anything like 1 Mbps.
Noise Margin needs to be > 7dB to avoid synch problems.
So, Stuart MUST get the engineers out. We'll be going round in circles otherwise.
Incidentally, I thought Stuart had a BT phone line and a Virgin ADSL (using the Gateway (IP stream)). If it is a Virginphone line it's a strange arrangement since it's a remote exchange and there will be no Virgin LLU, IMO.
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You can get 1.5 or even 2+Mbit out of 60dB attenuation if the line is clean enough, however the router can only display 63dB so chances are the line is even longer than that.
There are some Virgin services that use Wholesale Line Rental / WLR so you pay Virgin line rental but use BT Wholesale provided line and DSL. LLU isn't required to charge line rental as well.
We need to confirm SNR variance, getting neighbour's stats would also be a bonus however the chances are that BT won't be too interested as it does sound like an exceptionally long line and someone like A+A would be needed to beat them into sorting it
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Originally Posted by Stuart_
Okay, I will reset my router at 11am and post the results here, then edit my post every hour from then onwards for you to get the proper picture; I also wont watch any YouTube videos etc so the line isn't stressed.
I don't really feel comfortable asking my neighbor for these stats as she isn't the most technically minded. And, I will have to find out what model of router she has too, will I not?
In fact, I shall turn off my router for 10 minutes just now then fire it up again and post the results, just for the sake of it.
Oh, in my very first post, when I done a 'ping' test it said all packets were lost. Is that not a big worrying? Seen as no one bothered to say anything about packet loss, I though I should ask, to be safe.
Thanks.
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Don't worry about stressing the line, stress it as much as you want it won't change the stats.
If you can ask your neighbour if she's nice enough that'd rock.
Not worried about 100% packet loss, if you did actually have 100% packet loss you'd have a hard time getting onto here
