Connection up and running, should I be doing reconnects for the first 10 days?

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Hey, so my broadband was enabled yesterday and all seems to have gone well.  I have not moved into the house yet but have the keys so set up the router with my laptop and it works fine.  I understand how the first 10 days are used to find the line speed but do I need to be doing anything in that time like rebooting the router or using the web as I am not moving until the weekend.

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Hi Tim,
Resyncing once a day is definitely worthwhile as it helps the exchange to find the right profile for the line. I wouldn't reconnect more than that though as it may be seen by the exchange kit as an intermittent sync issue and lower the profile to compensate.
Hope that helps,

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Ok cool, so if I call into the new house for the next few days on my way home and just turn the router off and on, that'll be best?

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Preferably in daylight hours, as SNR margin tends to drop when it's dark.

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Quote from: 4Candles

Preferably in daylight hours, as SNR margin tends to drop when it's dark.

How's that then - it's not a radio line of sight link ?

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no no Mal, its the other person, he only has four candles, so he turns on his PC to get a bit of illumination, and overloads the system so his SNR drops - is that a good enough description?

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Quote from: mal0z

Quote from: 4Candles Preferably in daylight hours, as SNR margin tends to drop when it's dark. How's that then - it's not a radio line of sight link ?

No, of course, it isn't.
It's a fact of life, though, that medium-wave radio frequencies travel further at night, and these are picked up by telephone lines, which affects the SNR margin. Just google a few forums and Usenet groups and you'll see it's a common occurrence.
In most cases the router can cope with it, but it can cause dropouts and re-syncs in the worst cases.
In the OP's case, I'm just suggesting that re-syncing during the day will give the best chance of a higher stable rate at the end of the 10 day training period.

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And I thought you knew all about Tropospheric propogation and sun spots Mal Fat lot of good Chelmsford did you

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Quote from: 4Candles

No, of course, it isn't. It's a fact of life, though, that medium-wave radio frequencies travel further at night, and these are picked up by telephone lines, which affects the SNR margin. Just google a few forums and Usenet groups and you'll see it's a common occurrence. In most cases the router can cope with it, but it can cause dropouts and re-syncs in the worst cases. In the OP's case, I'm just suggesting that re-syncing during the day will give the best chance of a higher stable rate at the end of the 10 day training period.

OK OK - ye the  noise level goes up at night - but you might just as well have a local radio MF station, airfield Non-directional beacon close to you so the noise level could be even higher  - all day too
and only if the telephone line was an outside drop line.
Many many telephone lines days are underground. - certainly most buildings erected since the 1990's.
OK - I concede I don't know everything about ADSL - that's one reason I'm here to learn - and I am doing just that many thanks 
and pierre - yes indeed - I used to work on MF/HF/VHF/UHF radio - but that's a few years ago - and my memory has brain fades too - my signal to noise ratio drops sometimes..........................