Topic: A different slant on a speedtester

[Rik]

I suspect that, one day, we may be faced with that decision, though that still leaves the final mile.

[Clive]

Yesterday I had a mere 104kbs, today it's a staggering 6.3Mb.  I've got into the habit of turning my router off overnight to ensure I still have a connection the following morning.    

[Simon]

Very strange, Clive.  At least, if you resync in the mornings, you have a better chance of a higher speed.

[Clive]

Last week there was no connection until around 9 am but then I started turning the router off each night as an experiment and the connection stayed live, albeit painfully slow.  This morning around midday it resynched so I shall watch to see what happens.   

[Rik]

It sounds like DLM may have kicked in, Clive, what's your profile?

[Simon]

 

[Rik]

Clive suffers from that?

[Simon]

His line seems to.  It keeps going wrong. 

[Rik]

I blame the sheep...

[Simon]

Not many get away...

[Rik]

You wouldn't think they could make RFI noise would you?

[Simon]

 

[Rik]

Of course, not having met Clive, I don't know the effect he has in person... 

[Clive]

 
ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 7456 kbps 448 kbps
Line Attenuation 40 db 12.5 db
Noise Margin 4 db 23 db

[Rik]

You need to do a BT test to establish your profile, though, Clive.