I wouldn't do that. It sounds as though you may have been a bit unlucky when you resynced in the front socket, or you have an intermittent noise issue. Just keep an eye on things where you are in the test socket and if you see a change in your sync speed post some more stats.
Have a listen to your phone line as well. If you can hear any crackling noises when you use the phone, you should check that it's still there when you plug a corded phone straight into the Test socket. But as you may have an intermittent connection do the following if you need to do anything involving a loss of sync. In your case in the 10 or more minutes connect your corded phone to the test socket and check for noise.
Use this Disconnect method -
Do a Disconnect of your PPP Internet session with the ISP - you need to login to the modem/router interface and look for the Disconnect button to click on. On the Thomson modem/routers you will typically find it in the
box marked Internet as shown here. Now wait a few minutes, power down. Then wait 10 minutes (during this time swap any filters, modem/router, connect to test socket, etc. - it doesn't matter if you take longer than 10 minutes) and then power up again (You may need to login to the modem/router and click on Connect to re-establish the PPP Internet session). Check the stats
immediately (The Noise Margin [SNRM] shown is usually the current Target Noise Margin).
I usually recommend you do this no more than 5 times in an hour, and then leave it alone for the rest of the day. Remember the reason for this procedure is to help prevent the exchange DLM from thinking you have a dropping connection (or a worse one than you may have).
You can user the Disconnect/Connect (
without a power down) to Gateway hop.
If you can hear noise, whilst it is still there, phone your line rental provider and report a noisey phone line (don't mention the broadband or you get the run around). Get them to confirm they can hear the noise, ask them to log it and pass the fact that it's intermittent to the OpenReach engineer. If your line rental provider is Plusnet, they should be able to do a copper test there and then.
