Mitch / Techguy
Thanks.
Yep, when you get home, just use the standard default settings for your router. Also, if you could plug directly into the test socket (if you have one) I'd be very grateful.
Can you completely eliminate the surge projector too? There's no rain (therefore storms) forecast for your area in the next couple of days so it shouldn't be a concern and if anything did happen to your router, I promise I'll pay for a new one
DLM does stand for Dynamic Line Management.
Leave it overnight and into tomorrow so I can do more checks tomorrow morning. Your rotuer stats should look identical to the results that I get as (I believe) it's all reported directly from the DSLAM.
Yep, when you get home, just use the standard default settings for your router. Also, if you could plug directly into the test socket (if you have one) I'd be very grateful.
Can you completely eliminate the surge projector too? There's no rain (therefore storms) forecast for your area in the next couple of days so it shouldn't be a concern and if anything did happen to your router, I promise I'll pay for a new one
DLM does stand for Dynamic Line Management.
Leave it overnight and into tomorrow so I can do more checks tomorrow morning. Your rotuer stats should look identical to the results that I get as (I believe) it's all reported directly from the DSLAM.
Right
Reconfigured my wiring as suggested but have put the surge in between the router and the PC
Socket > filter (no phone attached) > Router > Cat5e to input on surge > Cat5e from output to LAN port on PC motherboard (sorry James but It'd be just my luck for something to happen on the line and for it to take out my motherboard so not taking that chance but there is nothing now between the ADSL WAN port on the router and the phone socket which is an extension type one rather than an NTE, BT guy waved this through when he installed the second line)
Anyway I noticed a couple of items of interest:
I just unplugged the filter from the surge and then plugged it into the socket and then sorted out the ethernet cables, when I booted the PC and entered the router's panel noise margin had dropped to 3.9 dB
I ran a speed test and was getting 700 Kbps
I rebooted the router as I thought the margin was an incorrect reading and sure enough it rose to 7 dB again
the attached doc shows the noise margin before and after switching back to multimode.
I ran another test when the connection had re-estanlished after switching to multimode and speed was reported at 1174
(does DMT have that much overhead?)
I re-ran the test
Just checked my stats again and downstream has dropped to 1632 Kbps and margin is 6.6
Anyway, I'm at work again tomorrow and off to see the Bond film tomorrow evening with not one but two nice looking ladies
I have taken the liberty of enabling renote management on the router and have PMed you with the details so please feel free to log in and have a look at the panel to get an idea of what's going on if it helps (there's no data protection issue as my PC wont be on)
I would like to try and get this stable and at a good speed if I can.
Thanks for your help again.
All the best
Mitch
Reconfigured my wiring as suggested but have put the surge in between the router and the PC
Socket > filter (no phone attached) > Router > Cat5e to input on surge > Cat5e from output to LAN port on PC motherboard (sorry James but It'd be just my luck for something to happen on the line and for it to take out my motherboard so not taking that chance but there is nothing now between the ADSL WAN port on the router and the phone socket which is an extension type one rather than an NTE, BT guy waved this through when he installed the second line)
Anyway I noticed a couple of items of interest:
I just unplugged the filter from the surge and then plugged it into the socket and then sorted out the ethernet cables, when I booted the PC and entered the router's panel noise margin had dropped to 3.9 dB
I ran a speed test and was getting 700 Kbps
I rebooted the router as I thought the margin was an incorrect reading and sure enough it rose to 7 dB again
the attached doc shows the noise margin before and after switching back to multimode.
I ran another test when the connection had re-estanlished after switching to multimode and speed was reported at 1174
(does DMT have that much overhead?)I re-ran the test
Just checked my stats again and downstream has dropped to 1632 Kbps and margin is 6.6
Anyway, I'm at work again tomorrow and off to see the Bond film tomorrow evening with not one but two nice looking ladies
I have taken the liberty of enabling renote management on the router and have PMed you with the details so please feel free to log in and have a look at the panel to get an idea of what's going on if it helps (there's no data protection issue as my PC wont be on)
I would like to try and get this stable and at a good speed if I can.
Thanks for your help again.
All the best
Mitch
There is no point whatsoever in running speed test immediately after making changes - it tells us absolutely nothing!
Because of the BT set IP Profile it takes up to three of four days for changes to be reflected in speed tests.
3.9dB margin could be absolutely brilliant if it was syncing at 8mbps. It could sync a bit lower and the noise margin would go up to a reasonable level and you'd have much better speeds.
What you need to post is the noise margin and the sync speed. You are looking for same noise margin and higher sync speed, same sync speed and higher noise margin or preferably higher noise margin and sync speed. Achieve one of those and in a few days time you should start to see higher IP Profile and better speed test results.
Because of the BT set IP Profile it takes up to three of four days for changes to be reflected in speed tests.
3.9dB margin could be absolutely brilliant if it was syncing at 8mbps. It could sync a bit lower and the noise margin would go up to a reasonable level and you'd have much better speeds.
What you need to post is the noise margin and the sync speed. You are looking for same noise margin and higher sync speed, same sync speed and higher noise margin or preferably higher noise margin and sync speed. Achieve one of those and in a few days time you should start to see higher IP Profile and better speed test results.
In Mitch's case there's no harm in running speedtests after making changes as I'm not expecting a change in IP Profile.
Mitch - I'm fairly sure that DMT hasn't been doing you any favours as it's not really making any difference to sync speed, nor is it helping your throughput. I'd keep things as they are for a couple of days and see how things behave.
BTW - I couldn't get through to your router web-console.
I hope you enjoyed the Bond film more than I did. I was rather dissapointed
Although I had excellent company 
Mitch - I'm fairly sure that DMT hasn't been doing you any favours as it's not really making any difference to sync speed, nor is it helping your throughput. I'd keep things as they are for a couple of days and see how things behave.
BTW - I couldn't get through to your router web-console.
I hope you enjoyed the Bond film more than I did. I was rather dissapointed
Although I had excellent company
No idea
If you have the PN firewall set above low, it may well not work.
If you have the PN firewall set above low, it may well not work.
There's always beer
You could try turning the firewall off (I'd assume your router has a built on one anyway). I'll email you my IP Address in case you need to manually add that.
You could try turning the firewall off (I'd assume your router has a built on one anyway). I'll email you my IP Address in case you need to manually add that.
