Could you give me an estimate on what speed to expect please..

[ukdarrenfan]

Could we go back to basics?
Do you have fixed phone extensions in your house? ie, boxes fixed to the wall with concealed wiring.
If so, when you remove the faceplate do these extensions still have dial tone?
Can you remove the faceplate and replace it with a plug in filter. What are the stats now?

I think the main problem with your line is that there is a lot of noise in the higher frequencies. This is shown by the high rise in your attenuation when you moved from G.DMT to ADSL2+. It is possible your connection would do much better if it was moved back to G.DMT. Your first stats, before DLM started showed you could expect 7-8Mb, with the present ones you will be lucky to get 5-6Mb.

I have 2 fixed phone extensions in my house. One in the extension at the back of the house (where my router always used to be) and one in my son's bedroom to plug in his sky box.

My cordless phone for some reason will now not work when it is plugged into the telephone extension cable, though it did before we changed to the filtered faceplate. My corded phone will also not work when it is plugged into this, although it does work when plugged into the master socket. At the moment my cordless telephone is plugged into the extension box at the back of the house, although this is not ideal. At least it works there until I can have a play around again.

I had to unplug the ADSL cable from the router this morning and when I plugged it back in the noise level went back to 9.4db, that is until the phone rang and everything went haywire! Hubby said that the phone was really hissy and crackly. While I was talking I checked out the router stats and they'd gone crazy! Speed had plummeted to around 2mbps and line attenuation had shot up from 44 to 51. It even changed from pppoA to MER/pppoA.

I've put filters back onto both extension sockets and the noise level seems to be pretty steady now at between 8.6db and 8.8db. These are my latest router stats: I'm going to have another play around with the phone tomorrow and see if I can get it working in the living room again. I daren't do anything now, hubby is watching the footie and will kill me if I get in the way! I've done a quiet line test and it seems to be ok at the moment, maybe a very, very slight noise, but before it was extremely hissy and crackly.

System Up Time: 7:15:14

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collisions	Tx B/s	Rx B/s	Up Time
WAN	PPPoA	71419	86893	0	449	2613	6:03:32
LAN	Up	18543	656	0	468	3	7:15:14
WLAN	Up	227157	177343	0	2699	1035	7:14:57

ADSL Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	5020 kbps	796 kbps
Line Attenuation	44.0 dB	25.3 dB
Noise Margin	8.7 dB	12.0 dB

[Isitme]

I've put filters back onto both extension sockets and the noise level seems to be pretty steady now at between 8.6db and 8.8db.

This seems to suggest that the extensions are not properly wired into the Master socket. You should have wires connected to the 2 and 5 terminals on the back of the faceplate, not the A-B terminals. How many will depend on how your extensions are wired. If they are daisy-chained, as normal, you will have one wire on each terminal. If they are spider-wired, you will have 2 wires on each terminal.

[ukdarrenfan]

This seems to suggest that the extensions are not properly wired into the Master socket. You should have wires connected to the 2 and 5 terminals on the back of the faceplate, not the A-B terminals. How many will depend on how your extensions are wired. If they are daisy-chained, as normal, you will have one wire on each terminal. If they are spider-wired, you will have 2 wires on each terminal.

There were only 2wires connected on the original faceplate which were then put into 2 & 5 of the filtered faceplate. There is nothing in the A or B terminals at all.

[Isitme]

It's not likely but it is just possible you have a faulty filtered faceplate.

[ukdarrenfan]

That would be just my luck. DLM should have finished soon, so I'll see what it says. Was I on G.DMT when I posted my first lot of stats? When my line attenuation was only 40? Would I be better off with that? How could I find out if the faceplate is faulty?

[Isitme]

You were on G.DMT initially and it looks like you would be better off with your line set to that again.

Remove the faceplate and plug the router into a filter, see if the stats improve.

[ukdarrenfan]

I think I have a faulty faceplate. I managed to get my cordless phone to work eventually by putting a filter on the phone side of the socket. It now works fine. These are my router stats as it stands:

System Up Time: 0:04:49

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collisions	Tx B/s	Rx B/s	Up Time
WAN	PPPoA	398	413	0	68	36	0:03:04
LAN	Up	1486	65	0	686	11	0:04:49
WLAN	Up	2788	2690	0	8166	1774	0:04:32

ADSL Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	5020 kbps	796 kbps
Line Attenuation	43.5 dB	25.3 dB
Noise Margin	8.4 dB	12.5 dB

and these are posted from the test socket using the grey ADSL cable

System Up Time: 0:13:35

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collisions	Tx B/s	Rx B/s	Up Time
WAN	PPPoA	29	32	0	41	83	0:00:41
LAN	Up	2400	106	0	551	5	0:13:35
WLAN	Up	6947	6926	0	7988	1630	0:13:18

ADSL Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	5020 kbps	796 kbps
Line Attenuation	44.0 dB	25.4 dB
Noise Margin	8.4 dB	12.5 dB

[ukdarrenfan]

Don't know what happened with the line attenuation in the first one, it's back at 44 now. I'm not going to touch another thing now! I think DLM has finished now as nothing has happened for the last couple of nights. As soon as it's confirmed I'll ask them to put me back onto G.DMT again and see if it helps.

[ukdarrenfan]

Just come off the phone to Sky. My download speed had been set to 5mbps and upload to 0.8 so I asked him to reconfigure it for me. This is what I have now and I am still on ADSL2+, for some reason he was very reluctant to put me back onto G.DMT and said that they aren't supposed to do that anymore. Anyway, this is what I have now. If it stays that way I'm happy with it. It's more than I had with O2.

System Up Time: 0:03:01

Port	Status	TxPkts	RxPkts	Collisions	Tx B/s	Rx B/s	Up Time
WAN	PPPoA	95	84	0	5	52	0:01:55
LAN	Up	1320	44	0	66	0	0:03:01
WLAN	Up	2563	2352	0	7337	1113	0:02:44

ADSL Link	Downstream	Upstream
Connection Speed	8480 kbps	796 kbps
Line Attenuation	44.0 dB	25.3 dB
Noise Margin	7.3 dB	12.5 dB

[Isitme]

He has certainly worked some magic