Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
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Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
14-08-2014 6:27 PM
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Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
14-08-2014 7:26 PM
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Interestingly what do you make of the tracert results? Seems to be pinging back sky then plusnet???
No extensions in phone socket. Master socket is the only one in whole house and run 3 DECT hansets from this point. I also made sure the bell wire was not connected in the faceplate.
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
14-08-2014 7:39 PM
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Ran tracert again and everything appears to be normal this time so my guess is old router must be locked to sky
Mode: ADSL_2plus
Traffic Type: ATM
Status: Up
Link Power State: L0
Downstream Upstream
Line Coding(Trellis): On On
SNR Margin (0.1 dB): 31 242
Attenuation (0.1 dB): 580 341
Output Power (0.1 dBm): 0 128
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 7044 1072
Path 0 Path 1
Downstream Upstream Downstream Upstream
Rate (Kbps): 5824 444 0 0
MSGc (# of bytes in overhead channel message): 59 46 0 0
B (# of bytes in Mux Data Frame): 182 19 0 0
M (# of Mux Data Frames in FEC Data Frame): 1 1 0 0
T (Mux Data Frames over sync bytes): 1 1 0 0
R (# of check bytes in FEC Data Frame): 14 0 0 0
S (ratio of FEC over PMD Data Frame length): 1.0 1.3675 0.0 0.0
L (# of bits in PMD Data Frame): 1576 117 0 0
D (interleaver depth): 32 1 0 0
Delay (msec): 8.0 0.34 0.0 0.0
INP (DMT symbol): 1.13 0.0 0.0 0.0
Super Frames: 43082 39323 0 0
Super Frame Errors: 0 0 0 0
RS Words: 2800344 0 0 0
RS Correctable Errors: 1202 0 0 0
RS Uncorrectable Errors: 0 0 0 0
HEC Errors: 0 0 0 0
OCD Errors: 0 0 0 0
LCD Errors: 0 0 0 0
Total Cells: 9618233 549324 0 0
Data Cells: 1971960 69966 0 0
Bit Errors: 0 0 0 0
Total ES: 0 0
Total SES: 0 0
Total UAS: 15 4294967254
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
14-08-2014 9:03 PM
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The traceroute when you were using the Netgear shows you connected to SkyBB.
The traceroute when you were using the TP-Link shows you connected to Plusnet.
As it is technically possible to have both services active on the one line, with the difference being determined when you log in, it's likely that the Sky router is hard-wired with Sky's connection settings. I would imagine that you may have paid in advance for the SkyBB connection, or they haven't ceased your account due to a slip-up at their end. I would check with them, as you don't want to be paying for two separate services on the one line.
(Edit: typo)
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
14-08-2014 10:05 PM
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Simon, those speedtest results are much better and pretty much what they ought to be. With the current BT IP profile your Current Line speed should rise to 5.1 soon which should give a touch more speed (assuming no congestion at the time). If this remains consistent for a few days, then the issue was on the wireless side and we can then look at that in more detail.
Now just thinking ahead at the moment, you are in the test socket, using a filter presumably as the face plate is off. Do you have a 2nd spare filter perchance?
Now back to this Netgear. First of all, the drops this afternoon. Did you have any thunder and lightning in the vicinity at all?
2nd, did you not change the login details in it, to your Plusnet ones? If not, you should be able to experiment with that off-line.
Just unplug the computer Ethernet from the TP-Link and plug it into the Netgear and power up the Netgear. No need to disconnect the TP-Link from the phone line - definitely don't do that!
Anyway login to the netgear and find the broadband PPP Internet login details and see what they are, and see if you can change them to your Plusnet ones. Click on anything that suggests they are remembered etc. Then reboot it and see if they remain there. If so, power it down. After 30 seconds or so, power it up again and see if the Plusnet details are still there, if so success, you should be able to use it - but not at present then, we'll keep it on standby.
What exchange are you on? Plusnet will need to get on to BTw tomorrow to get this Sky service configuration removed from the exchange, it just should not be there.
Post up some more stats so we can have a look and see how it's going, try and post the Uptime as well. You could do another speedtest as well if you haven't already
Lastly did you have a look to see if there was updated firmware available for the TP-Link?
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
14-08-2014 10:38 PM
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However, if it's such an old model, it may be hardly worth the effort.
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
15-08-2014 5:00 PM
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Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
15-08-2014 5:20 PM
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It would be worth seeing if you can do the steps that ejs has pointed to in reply #35.
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
15-08-2014 5:30 PM
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15-08-2014 6:18 PM
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Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
15-08-2014 6:21 PM
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15-08-2014 8:08 PM
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Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
15-08-2014 9:27 PM
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I've had a busy few hours trying out your suggestions since returning from work. I attempted to input plusnet settings into the netgear router but this was not possible as ejs mentioned looks as though settings are hard wired into the router - I tried to flash original firmware but further digging I found out flashing with the netgear recovery utility is not possible on windows7. I also had an old sagemcom f@st2504 modem which I tried to flash with custom firmware but unfortunately I ended up bricking it which I was really puzzled about then I found out that there were in fact 2 f@st2504 firmware: f@st2504N (cable) and f@st2504 (adsl) guess which one I flashed with
Anotherone - the netgear router would only stay connected for maybe 10-15 minutes and then disconnect, I'm guessing maybe it was connecting to sky and then disconnecting because I login credentials were not checking out with sky server, whether this is even possible I don't know, but definately no thunder storms here. I do have a sprare microfilter would you suggest swapping it over? I was even thinking of buying a new bt nte 2000 filtered faceplate. I'm connected to the wideopen exchange in Newcastle which doesn't seem to be fibre optic enabled yet
I've also gathered some further stats. I don't know what has happened but the connection has been pretty stable I've been waiting for a drop in speed or connection but this hasn't happened yet. I've also changed the wireless broadcast from 20mhz only to 20/40mhz to see whether this would help
Some speed test results
Netgear:
Thurs 18.41 <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3689520251"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3689520251.png" /></a>
Thurs 18.48 <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3689529454"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3689529454.png" /></a>
Tp link:
Thurs 19.45 <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3689644421"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3689644421.png" /></a>
Fri 17.05 <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3691501787"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3691501787.png" /></a>
Fri 18.55 <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3691711054"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3691711054.png" /></a>
Fri 20.45 <a href="http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3691902327"><img src="http://www.speedtest.net/result/3691902327.png" /></a>
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
15-08-2014 9:52 PM
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On the Stats, the ES and SES errors haven't increased in the last 4 hours, so I'm wondering what caused them before.
Can you go and look at the IP address that was on your post #'31, it's in the bottom rh corner and post it here.
What I was thinking with the 2nd filter, was that if we were seeing a large error rate was to try double filtering the DECT base station in case that was causing them.
Re: Inconsistent speed- low SNR high attenuation
15-08-2014 10:04 PM
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