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on an evening when it was particularly bad i was advisesd to go the the bt wholesale website and do a speedtest and here are those results
here are the btspeedtester results
1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download Speed | |
0.04 Mbps |
0 Mbps | 21 Mbps Max Achievable Speed |
Download speedachieved during the test was - 0.04 Mbps For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 4 Mbps-21 Mbps. IP Profile for your line is - 14.44 Mbps |
2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
Upload Speed | |
0.91 Mbps |
0 Mbps | 0.83 Mbps Max Achievable Speed |
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 0.91Mbps Additional Information: Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 0.83 Mbps |
help please!!!!
Just my two pennies worth, it looks like your line is perhaps suffering from external interferance if there is no electrical appliance within your property which is causing it.
Looking at your line stats, the only suggestion is to get back to BT and see if they can raise your downstream noise margin to see if it will make any difference in the evenings. Your stats show a figure of 4.4db. To check for the actual default noise margin on your line, you need to disconnect the ADSL cable for a few seconds and check the figure again after you have reconnected the cable and you have internet access. It is probably either 3db or perhaps 6db. The default values start at 3db and go upto 15db in 3db steps. The 'noisier' the line, the higher the value which should be automatically set by BT's systems.
Increasing the noise margin will reduce your maximum download speed btw.
If a higher value downstream noise margin does resolve the problem, sadly the value may not stick from my experience when I had ADSL. In the past, I've requested values as high as 9db, only to find it eventually drifted back down to unacceptably low 3db for my ADSL line leading to the return of occasional disconnects or slow speeds in the evenings.
You currently have ADSL2+. Another option is to request your line to be downgraded to ADSL2 only, this will set your maximum download speed to I think no more than 12mbps. The benefit will be a 'higher' default noise margin on your line.
I have a current problem in that the engineers think there is an underground 'barewire' fault which will obviously be causing a fault with another customer - my connection keeps going to rubbish and occassionally drops completely. Sounds familiar - if your 'other' customer gets home and goes on broadband at seven each evening or if the kids are allowed online for an hour or so after they have done their homework....
Hi Hesthekeeper,
If you line is disconnecting at about the same time each night it does sound like you either some REIN (Repetitive Electrical Impulse Noise) or some SHINE (Single Isolated Impulse Noise) affeting the line.
Have you had the helpdesk organise you a specialist engineer to come out to investigate the problem, as it might not be something local to your property that is affecting the line, it could be anything between the exchange and the phone socket.
Markp
Hi Hesthekeeper,
Is it a business of home broadband connection you have?
If it is business send me the details via Private message, if it is a home broadband line you will need to contact my colleagues in the home broadband team on 0800 111 4567, www.bt.com/chat or on their forum http://community.bt.com
Markp