S/N goes up and download speed goes down....again!

[#1]

Hi Chroma2000,
If your line is the same as mine, when the line snr reaches 12db, the download speed will stableize at no lower than 19 Mbs.

[#2]

Generally the falling speed doesn't have a great impact on the number of disconnections which on average is still once  a day usually between midnight and 5 am. For a number of months I was getting a consistent 33-35Mbs so having to now make do with around 20Mbs is not acceptable considering how much we pay for line rental.

Ian

[#3 · Accepted solution]

Persistence does pay off eventually.

Having had endless engineers visits for over a year tinkering with the line with no long term fix I've finally had an excellent engineer do a thorough investigation. He found that he could switch me from my old 60's cabling to a line on a 'new' modern cable which had been added to increase capacity. This has boosted my down  sync speed to a stable 40Mbs from 26Mbs and the up sync to 10Mbs from 6Mbs. These could improve further when they get round to re-profiling my line to take advantage of finally having a quality line.

[#4]

@chroma2000 - that's good news. When I got put onto a clean pair from my house speeds went up but then over time crept back down from 44 to 33 and are just stuck there.

[#5]

The router stats look very promising so I'm quite confident that finally having the use of new modern cable will finally provide a solution. 

Unfortunately none of the other engineer's considered doing that. They just swapped my line for another line that still used the old sixties aluminium cable.