Problem that has just got worse

[I_Hate_Sky_Awnsers]

Just come off the phone to Sky. He rang me back after he'd tried different things. No better....

He tried the G.DMT profile and said that it made it worse. He seemed to know what he was on about. He said that he will pass it on to someone higher up and that they will probably send another engineer out to look in more detail.

He said that there are a lot of errors on the line. All he tried, He couldn't get it any better. He seemed to think that there is a fault on the line, Although the engineer said it was okay.

As it is 1.3MB at the box down the road (About 1000 meters away) and it's 400kbps here, It's losing a lot there. What do you think?

On the Sky/Open reach not so merry go round AGAIN........

Depends really on the type of errors

there are 3 main types

Forward errors
Headline errors
CRC errors

Forward - not really that important unless there are a very large amount - can be corrected by changing the INP
same for headers - not really that important
CRC - bad errors increasing the max delays can reduced them though

Can't really disagree with him that much without seeing the stats that he did in LAMA but don't really want to second guess someone if you thought that they new what they were talking about.

[playwithfire]

It's 1.3MB at the box down the road (About 1000 meters away) and it's 400kbps here.

Should it lose that much speed over that distance? I'm not sure how much the speed slows depending on the length of the cable.

[Scubbie]

Sadly the answer is Yes.

If you look at the graph that I've located from elsewhere on the web you will where the speed droops off.

There are plenty of other graphs that can support this evidence. If you type 'adsl2+ graph' into your favourite search engine you will see quite a few there. Most of them deal with attenuation figures now, but I managed to locate this one which shows the figures in metres.

[I_Hate_Sky_Awnsers]

It's 1.3MB at the box down the road (About 1000 meters away) and it's 400kbps here.

Should it lose that much speed over that distance? I'm not sure how much the speed slows depending on the length of the cable.

Normally Yes, but in your case i am not not so sure.

[playwithfire]

Update, Spoke to Sky today and the speed has mysteriously gone back up????? Sky said that they haven't done anything since last time I spoke to them. They asked if I had changed any of the equipment etc..... But I haven't. Everything is exactly the same.

These are the stats now,

ROUTER STATISTICS

System Up Time: 39:55:22
Port Status TxPkts RxPkts Collisions Tx B/s Rx B/s Up Time
WAN PPPoA 4537 5498 0 1069 2803 00:34:01
LAN 0 0 0 0 0 00:00:00
WLAN 89696 71561 0 44961 9903 00:33:50
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 1507 kbps 412 kbps
Line Attenuation 76.0db 50.1db
Noise Margin 7.1db 8.0db

Can you let me know if there is anything here that would suggest anything.

Thanks to everyone that has helped me on this forum, I just hope that it doesn't go back down again.

Hope that I don't have to ring Sky back anytime soon.

[I_Hate_Sky_Awnsers]

Maybe DLM kicked in as the line was underperforming. Looks like a reconfiguration has now been done as your SNR is now around the expected 7db mark.

I am still thinking you might get a bit more out of that line on G.DMT.

[playwithfire]

Had problems again. OMG..........

Went back down again to 400kbps. Rang Sky, Lady on the phone was sooooo frustrating to talk to, No help at all.

I have noticed that when my speed drops the Noise Margin goes up to around 14 or 15db and when my speed goes back up it goes down to around 7db.

What is Noise Margin and what would make the number go up/down so much?

Thanks.

[I_Hate_Sky_Awnsers]

That's because when the speed drops you are no longer maxing out your connection.

Noise margin is a signal to noise ratio give as a margin in decibels

Interference would cause the issue.

Such as cross talk from other lines. If your line is above ground wind could also cause the issue

Might not be a bad idea to call and ask to be placed on G.DMT.

[Isitme]

I have noticed that when my speed drops the Noise Margin goes up to around 14 or 15db and when my speed goes back up it goes down to around 7db.

It looks like you are having noise spikes on your line. When these occur the noise margin drops, the connection then drops and resyncs at a speed the line can handle. When the noise reduces, the noise margin rises again. This drop, resync and rise in noise margin can take place over a very short period, possibly only a few seconds. When this does happen, you should get your original speed back by resyncing your router again, but how long it lasts depends on how often these noise spikes occur. Apart from finding out what is causing the noise spikes, there is not a lot you can do about it.

As already suggested, your line may perform better on G.DMT, you should ask them to try your line on this.