Sky CTS telling the truth about DLM?

Last week I posted some respectable line stats after signing up with the Unlimited package on what is an ADSL2+ exchange - theoretically maxing up to 24Mbps.

Obviously on initial sign-up with Sky, I was put on 4Mbps with the usual 'this will increase after DLM training'. So far so good.

My package began on 29th March and now the Sky website is telling me line testing was completed on 4th April (less than the 10 days official testing period) and the line speed is only clocked at 8Mbps. I don't have router stats immediately to hand right now but from memory of checking this morning, the download line attenuation is about 23db and the noise margin's around 17db.

I've interpreted this (correctly?) as assuming my line has more potential bandwidth available so I called Sky CTS as recommended elsewhere here to get the line manually set. They've told me that although the website might say line testing has finished, it's actually still going on and that the 'real' result will come through on 8th April, 10 days after my connection began.

My question is, for your experiences, is this just a fob-off or can I expect to see more changes over the next few days?

CST can tell you there and then if it's finished, as can anyone on Sky BB tech. The site could be wrong but the call should've put that to bed. Best thing is to call again and see what they say as chances are you spoke to Tier 1 and not CST...

Ha! This just gets better and better. I gave Sky a call again as you suggested and explained once again that the line training had given an underperforming result and that I'd like the cap increased.

So the CTS guy then asked me me if the router was plugged into the main socket. Yes. How many computers connect to the router? Two. Do you use them at the same time? Yes. Ah, so you see, sir, that is your problem. If you just use one computer at a time your connection will be faster.

Yes, that's right. If your line's slow, Sky's first response is to tell you that you shouldn't ever use more than one computer on a broadband connection.

After that I simply said "Look, my line attenuation is about 22db and I've got a noise margin of 18db. Can you just raise the cap please." That got his attention and he decided that he wasn't going to treat me like an idiot anymore.

1. It's CST (Customer Solutions Team), and 2. that was NOT a CST agent you were speaking to - that's more like a Tier 1 agent as CST don't go through basic troubleshooting

^ What he said. You're talking a script that tier 1 follow called 'mojo' at the moment. :D

No, he spoke to an idiot that didn't listen to the issue. Obviously the T1 didn't bother checking the router stats or they would have seen the issue straight away. Agents like that need shooting.

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Originally Posted by PaulSky

No, he spoke to an idiot that didn't listen to the issue. Obviously the T1 didn't bother checking the router stats or they would have seen the issue straight away. Agents like that need shooting.

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alot of T1 agents dont know what router stats are. mentioning SNR or attenuation will baffle 90% of tier 1 :/

Yep, unfortunately they seem to think T1 agents would struggle to understand but if they were to give them basic information of what should be happening with target noise margin it would be a lot more useful and will allow better troubleshooting.
One of my biggest issues with how T1 agents were trained was just the lack of basic instruction that would prove beneficial to customer and agent. Was glad to leave in the end due to this.

The fact that Swish now shows these (IIRC) means that T1 should know what they mean...

Should.... big word that lol