3 years and 3500kbs less later

[Desaan]

UPDATE

I'm gonna call faulty/broken wires somewhere, whilst rambling about the house poking things for 20 mins it dropped as low as 10 on a number of occassions (from 15).  The dog thought it was great me running up and down the stairs checking things, shame he couldn't of been of more use 

[Lance]

At least you are geting nearer to the cause! It sounds like you may ust have a loose connection, although you would normally hear this more on the voice. If you are going to be poking about with cables, make sure that if you haven't got a filtered faceplate that you remove the ring wire which is on terminal 3 in the sockets and usually orange/white.

[Desaan]

Do you think's it possible the actual jack (the test socket one) is faulty is some way?  When I move the wire and head around slightly the noise drops levels drops off to around 6-7 but as soon as I let go of it it jumps back up again.

The thing hasn't seen the light of day for about 5 years so it's never even been touched/knocked.

[Sebby]

It's possible. What I was really getting at earlier is what's the wiring like given that you had an ISDN conversion? Does the line come into the house and straight to an NTE5?

[Desaan]

I wish I could see, I trace the wire out of the room, along the wall then it disappears into a hole near the stairs.  So I'm guessing as nothing is connected to the NTE5 downstairs it must be a secondary master as above the front door there is two wires that disappear into the abyss.  It also looks like the builders decided to plaster over some of the wires (about 4-5 years ago) which is hardly helping things. 


[EDIT] Would also appear that constantly messing about has dropped my profile further (now 1600kbs) Guess this may become a bigger problem seeing as my profile never seems to achieve anything near what my throughput says (3400kbs)

[Sebby]

Hmm, I suspect the line comes into the house, goes into some box, and is then routed to an NTE5. It's not ideal, but I wouldn't have thought it would make that much difference. Have you tried the test socket?

[Rik]

My hunch, Seb, is that when the ISDN was removed, BT wired a filtered faceplate in as the master, but it's difficult to be certain.

[Sebby]

It is.

[Desaan]

I'm gonna get an adsl nation faceplate and few new cables on Monday, it is not good karma that I can actually manipulate the downstream noise margin by purely moving the wire and the RJ45 head around whilst using the test socket.  I actually got the noise level to drop as low as 7 and got it to a steady 12.

Only problem now is waiting for the blip technology to kick in because all the messing about yesterday dropped my profile down to 1650kbs and its not tried to readjust yet.

[Rik]

You need to get some stability before it's really going to get you back to where you should be, unfortunately.

[4Way]

I have just downloaded RouterStats 4.8 and am finding it difficult to configure for my 2Wire 2700 HGV

At the Configure - Router Search Text tab when I click the Get Page button

A message stating:

To use this page to customize the features of your BT2700HGV, you must
have JavaScript enabled     JavaScript is currently disabled in your browser..........

As far as I can determine I have JavaScript enabled in IE7
I have checked as below and it is enabled!

Click the Tools menu.
Select Internet Options.
Click the Security tab.
Click the Custom Level button.
Scroll down until you see the 'Scripting' section. Select the 'Enable' radio button for 'Active Scripting.'
Click the OK button.
Click the Yes button in the confirmation window.

The Rx Noise margin (dB) graph is currently showing a blue line stepping up to 780 dB and then staying constant
while there is a pink one that looks to be rising exponentially to possibly meet the blue one! this is really weird as my Router Stas page is currently showing this:

DSL                             Down  Up
Current Rate:           3456 kbs   448 kbs 
Max Rate:                3456 kbs   1060 kbs 
Current Connection:
Current Noise Margin:   12.0 dB   25.0 dB 
Current Attenuation:     40.2 dB   26.0 dB 
Current Output Power:  18.9 dBm   11.9 dBm 

Does anyone have any ideas?

Don't use RouterStats as it is not directly supported. Use Routerstats lite as this does support your router and will give you the graphs you want.

[Rik]

Thanks for that, 4Way. 

[LesD]

Don't know Les whether this is any help,as you seem have a java problem? How about using FF?

http://www.idnetters.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=7137.msg142708#msg142708

Didn't get on with FF when I tried Ubuntu!  So many tabs they were coming out of my ears! 

The link, however, was a great help.   

[Desaan]

ADSL Link                Downstream     Upstream
Connection Speed         4224 kbps     448 kbps
Line Attenuation            54.0 db        29.5 db
Noise Margin                  10.8 db        19.0 db

Go BT profile, change! GO!

2500kbs, still slow 

[EDIT] 30hrs up time for the record, which would be x1000 hrs more if I didn't move/turn off the router, just trying to debunk the losing sync theory also.

[Desaan]

Back on the mend 

Thanks for all tips and suggestions.

[Rik]

Getting there.