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[Rik]

  Senility rules!   

[Gary]

There's only one light Gary, any connection and it comes on.

Its so long since I had one , Rik I cannot remember. Old age for you 

[Rik]

Just wait till you reach it.

[Gary]

Just wait till you reach it.

On my medication it feels like I have, Rik. 

[Rik]

 

[ou7shined]

It's not far off for me in fact I'm probably there already.

As for the Ethernet led? There's no light as there's nothing plugged in at the other end - I always keep that particular cable plugged in (in number 1 btw ) for when I have to do manual a set up sans wifi.

Being in the electric box seems to be having no effect upon my router as far as wifi strength goes. I'm not sure as to what effect it might be having on my connection condition as I'm not sure what this connection is capable of yet. But this house is a relatively new build so I guess all the shielding standards are in place.
I used to have my 2700 sitting on top of my hi-fi's sub-woofer in the last house which again is a no no but it didn't harm my 13MB connection any.

[Steve]

At least the sub woofer would give the router a firm bass.

[Rik]

 

[ou7shined]

At least the sub woofer would give the router a firm bass.

Right up until it shuffled itself over to the edge and fell off. (jk)

[joe]

ou7shined doesn't use a hard wired connection from router to PC. Isn't the speed always going to be less wirelessly?

[Rik]

Theoretically, yes, but unless he's connected at 20Mb or greater, it will not impact on internet traffic, only cross-network traffic.

[ou7shined]

Theoretically, yes, but unless he's connected at 20Mb or greater, it will not impact on internet traffic, only cross-network traffic.

I wish I could have said that.
I started a reply to that effect a while back but became aware that I was rambling and also not 100% sure of my figures so binned it.

[Rik]

 

Just sound authoritative, Rich, it works for me.

[ou7shined]

Ah so that's the secret.

[Rik]

 

[Maiku]

After reading through this thread I decided to have a dig around in my extension wiring to see if there was anything I could do to improove my own line. Most of it is really old, pre 1980's in a star setup, it was modified by BT who put in a NTE5 in the loft i think in the 90's, so I wasnt sure what i'd find.

Oddly enough I found several points having 4 wires connected and some even with all 6   . I even found what appeard to be an old "master" being used as a normal extension  , so I swapped out that plate for a spare.  I'm not able to pull out the extra wires on the newer cable that goes to where the adsl modem is as there is a lot of very large furniture blocking it but I can disconnect it at the NTE5 end however.
I was wondering if grounding the other wires would work? Ie remove them at the NTE5 end and connect it to a water pipe or something? ( i havnt done this, the idea just came to me now).

I'm less than a mile from the exchange on an 'L' shaped road,even the long route around the L is under a mile, but i've never had anything overly great in terms of line speed, in plus net days years ago it was dreadful, now on Idnet for a couple years its been prity good. From my actions today the SNR margin has gone from a solid 13 to shaky 14, and attenuation has gone from 4 to 6 (which seems odd). But I can now sync at 8128 insted of 6500.

While checking the modem stats (after reboot) I noticed the following:

> adsl status
  --------------------------- ATU-R Info (hw: annex A, f/w: annex A) -----------
   Running Mode            :    G.DMT       State                : SHOWTIME
   DS Actual Rate          :  8128000 bps   US Actual Rate       :   832000 bps
   DS Path Mode            :  Interleave    US Path Mode         :  Interleave
   NE Current Attenuation  :        6 dB    Cur SNR Margin       :       14  dB
   NE Current Attenuation  :        6 dB    Cur SNR Margin       :       14  dB
   ADSL Firmware Version   : 131701_A
  -------------------------------- ATU-C Info ---------------------------------
   Far Current Attenuation :       10 dB    Far SNR Margin       :        5  dB
   CO ITU Version[0]       : 00005453       CO ITU Version[1]    : 00005443
   DSLAM CHIPSET VENDOR    : < TI >

What got my attention is the "Interleave", I assume this means I have Interleaving set on the line, which I wasnt aware of, and Idnet have never mentioned it. I'm not even slightly clued in as to most of these figures, so I was hoping someone on here could give me an opinion on it. My current IP profile is 6000 from the BT speed test.

I currently use a draytek vigor 100, adsl ethernet modem which plugs into my own linux router. I was also curious as to this 2700 router thats been suggested and if its going to be much different to the draytek.

Any help greatly appreciated

[Steve]

Looks like your efforts have improved things,you've now got a full sync,which you should have with that very low attenuation. You can ask for interleave to be turned off as you shouldn't need it on such a short line. The modem I don't think is a factor, I use the 120 version without any issues,the 2700 tends to excel on longer lines from the exchange than yours but  there's no harm in experimenting. Your profile will probably take 10 days or so to sneak up to 7150.