Is my broadband finding its true speed or just all over the place.

[Isitme]

You can remove any plug in filters you are using as they are no longer required,

You can now call Sky and ask them to reconfigure your line as you have made improvements to your wiring. Having this done by DLM training would be best but I believe this privilege has been withdrawn from the first line support. There is no harm in asking them to do this. It looks like your line will support 3-4 Mb.

Remember that only the ADSL port in the Master socket can be used for broadband, it is filtered out of all your other sockets.

[Dazzle]

Once again thank you for taking the time to help. Much appreciated.
I'll ring them once I have time.

Would a new router help? this ones taken a few falls/knocks and it is I reckon 4 or 5 years old?

[Isitme]

I doubt if it will help your download speed, but if you are using up to date wireless N devices, then upgrading to the Sagem 2504N or the new Sky hub would improve the wireless performance.

[Dazzle]

Right, cheers for that.
I might have the chance of getting a cheap Sagem 2504N, but not directly through sky. Is it just a matter of swapping routers or do I have to get on to sky?
thanks

[Isitme]

Unless its been blocked, any Sky router will plug and play on any Sky ADSL broadband connection. Sky will not give you help in connecting a router unless you buy it from them, even one of their own routers.

[mattan]

Having this done by DLM training would be best but I believe this privilege has been withdrawn from the first line support.

I think it depends on who you are talking to. I was told twice that DLM had been restarted, when it hadn't. The third time I called, they did restart training. I think this was 1st line, unless they'd asked 2nd line to do this on their behalf. BTW, this was after getting a filtered faceplate fitted too. They ran a line test, then restarted DLM.

[Dazzle]

How do you know that they are doing DLM?

When I rang the time before last they said they were going to monitor my line, would that indicate DML?
But when I rang last a week later I was told they hadnt been monitoring my line, but informed me that my line was not coping with what it was doing so my speed was lowered/capped.

[mattan]

How do you know that they are doing DLM?

Two things: First, your "My Broadband" we page will show that training started on a new date. Secondly, you should see the WAN re-connecting overnight, normally midnight to 6am.

[Isitme]

I think it depends on who you are talking to. I was told twice that DLM had been restarted, when it hadn't. The third time I called, they did restart training. I think this was 1st line, unless they'd asked 2nd line to do this on their behalf. BTW, this was after getting a filtered faceplate fitted too. They ran a line test, then restarted DLM.

I based this on a statement by one of Sky's support agents who posts regularly on the forum. I have no personal experience of this. DLM is supposed to run continuously on the line, unless it is suspended. This is not in 'training mode', but a monitoring mode which will reduce the line speeds if it finds too many errors. It is supposed to increase the speed if the line improves but this seldom, if ever happens on ADSL, although it does on Fibre lines.

[mattan]

Sorry, should have been clearer - I was referring to the 'training' mode only. When I phoned up to ask for the line to be re-trained, I was told twice that they'd set it up, when they hadn't. Third time lucky, they set it up and the My Broadband page showed that training had (re)started.