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[old Bill]

Well BT wholesale called me today as they said they would. They are going to call me in a week to see how things have settled down. Here are my stats with the Interleaving on. What do you think to this. The line seems smoother but it is a fair bit slower. I am not sure which is I prefer, a faster but eratic line or a slower but steady one.
Link Information

Uptime:   1 day, 7:22:01

Modulation:   G.992.1 Annex A

Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:   832 / 5,504

Data Transferred (Sent/Received) [MB/MB]:   35.90 / 298.89

Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:   11.5 / 19.5

Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:   29.0 / 48.0

SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:   7.0 / 6.5

Vendor ID (Local/Remote):   TMMB / 

Loss of Framing (Local/Remote):   0 / 0

Loss of Signal (Local/Remote):   0 / 0

Loss of Power (Local/Remote):   0 / 0

Loss of Link (Remote):   0

Error Seconds (Local/Remote):   390 / 0

FEC Errors (Up/Down):   1,848 / 8,075,652

CRC Errors (Up/Down):   662 / 589

HEC Errors (Up/Down):   542 / 499

[TimJ]

I am not sure which is I prefer, a faster but eratic line or a slower but steady one.

Maybe it's my age but I prefer it slow and steady!

In practice will you notice a 500kbps reduction in speed? With general browsing and gaming I suspect the answer is no. P2P and NNTP might be slower but being being on Home max+ you will doing most of that overnight anyway.

Without all those errors your actual speeds will not be reduced by nearly as much as the sync speed - it might even be higher.

Give it a try for the week then decide. I suspect that I would stay with interleave on - you can always ask to have it turned off at a later date.

Just my opinion - but the choice is yours.

Tim. 

[Nerval]

Maybe it's my age but I prefer it slow and steady!

It's the only way for some of us 

You really won't notice a .5Mb reduction on the kind of speeds you're getting.

My own fluctuates between Profile rates of 4.5 and 5Mb and the only way I can tell which it is is by asking the BT speedtest.  And the only reason I look occasionally is some sort of perverse macho thing whereby I'd rather be on 5Mb than 4.5, even though I can't tell the difference.

I'd stick with the stable line.

[Rik]

Third vote for stable. Better a download that completes than one which is interrupted because the connection dropped.

[old Bill]

Well I will leave it on for the time being and see how it goes. The strange thing is before the interleaving was switched on I only lost connection a couple of times. My speeds were up and down like a yoyo (maybe to do with the 10 day training period or just because it was Christmas) The main thing was just the amount of errors on my line. Anyway i am geting a constant 4.2 download speed now.

[Rik]

Stop making me jealous.

[Lance]

Third vote for stable. Better a download that completes than one which is interrupted because the connection dropped.

You could of course use a download manager that can cope with the connection being dropped and only pauses the download!

[old Bill]

I have not heard of that before. Can you tell me more about it please.

[Rik]

You could of course use a download manager that can cope with the connection being dropped and only pauses the download!

True enough. I just prefer not to have the problem rather than to find a cure.

[Rik]

I have not heard of that before. Can you tell me more about it please.

There's one here:

http://www.internetdownloadmanager.com/

otherwise just Google for download managers. Some apps, eg Acrobat Reader, come with their own d/l manager.