The good, the bad and the better

[kenny444]

Hello Chaps, I have an upto 8M broadband sky account, but I only have a 3.5M phone line, and although I am only 2 miles from the exchange by road and maybe only 1.5 miles, by line of sight i have slow access.

I monitor my line speed and I have been down to .73 Mbps which is not a lot and I have peaked at 2.4Mbps but only on 3 occasions, my average is about 1.5

I have moved my router closer to my only phone inlet and gained a bit of speed with the router stating 1.9Mbps.

I do have another problem which is that the original phone inlet, marked PO (post office) has two cables twisted together and wrapped in brown sticky tape it is to be replaced. and updated.

I have now updated my netgear firmware "thank you to SKY USER for the info" and my router is now reporting 2.91Mbps and the SU meter reads 2.48Mbps.

So thats me, any informtion about tweaking / the best master filter sockets etc would be good.

Thanks

kenny444

[reddwarfcrew]

first advice is to edit your profile as your are showing your mobile phone number to everyone!!!!

[dholdi]

After editing your profile you could post your router stats as you are connected now and a further set from the test socket.

[kenny444]

Thank you for the replies, and help. number removed (sim thrown away), and as yet I have no BT socket, and how do I extract my stats please.
Kenny444

[richone54]

detailed stats for the V1 netgear can be found in this page


also see first link in my sig to see what the test socket looks like and how to test

[kenny444]

Thank you for the link and in test socket info, unfortunately I do not have a BT socket, as originally posted I have a wire coming out of the back of a patress cover that is marked "PO"

I did ask ofcom about the ownership of this connection and therefore the legality of changing it, but as yet they have not replied.

kenny444

[Carl2T]

ofcom and bt ofcom referrals take their time with contacting back.. waiting over a week with NUMEROUS calls. swine.

In theory... bt line rental.. outofdatesocket...bt to update