The upstairs extension (unused) was fed from a splitter plugged into the socket downstairs, something the guy who owned the house before us must have done.
Just a thought.....you may get nearer 4Mb (which you should be capable of with that attenuation) if you check out the wiring in the main linebox. Take a look at these pages on the Kitz site >>>
I'm crap at fiddling around with that sort of thing, and besides, would it require me to have an NTE5 linebox?
I've run a couple of speedtests and have been getting 3+mbps, so I'm not too worried about this figure, as I guess there are other people using the internet right now.
What do these terms actually mean? DSL Connection rate is presumably what I could get if I modified my line as per the links above?
What about actual IP Throughput - that's the speed that is currently hitting the router?
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Test1 comprises of Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Your DSL connection rate: 4160 kbps(DOWN-STREAM), 448 kbps(UP-STREAM)
IP profile for your line is - 3500 kbps
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 2083 kbps
DSL connection rate is what is known as the sync rate, i.e. the rate your router is connected at to the equipment in your exchange. Nobody ever achieves this rate because of the technicalities/line losses of the ADSL system.
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Your 'IP profile' (or 'BRAS profile') is a speed limit applied to your broadband service by the local exchange. Its purpose is to ensure the exchange doesn't 'overload' your broadband service by sending more data down your phone line than it (or your modem) can physically handle. Without such a 'throttle', your broadband service would suffer from data loss - BT
Actual IP throughput is the actual speed your router is achieving.
So although your connection has improved there are still influences affecting it because you are well off from the profile, 2083 compared to 3500. You should be seeing around 2975 on throughput.
Leave it for 3 or 4 days and use the speedtester again....it may improve.
The upstairs extension (unused) was fed from a splitter plugged into the socket downstairs, something the guy who owned the house before us must have done.
Just a thought.....you may get nearer 4Mb (which you should be capable of with that attenuation) if you check out the wiring in the main linebox. Take a look at these pages on the Kitz site >>>
So, from those links that you've posted I've learned that:
"BT have been installing the NTE5 since 1981, but there are still many homes which have Line Jacks as the master. The Master socket can be identified by unscrewing the faceplate and seeing which socket which has the yellow ring capacitor."
I don't have an NTE5 socket, so I tried to find the master socket by looking for the yellow ring capacitor. None of the sockets have a yellow ring capacitor. What does this mean? My IP profile gets reduced from 5000 to 500 at 6pm every day and each time I speak to "technical support" they run me through the same router checks and then "send out an engineer to check the line." I've tried to take matters into my own hands since losing my patience with our friends in India but now I'm stuck.
Well that's interesting. There's nothing around that gets switched on at that time though. It started a couple of months ago, nothing that I can think of happened at that time that would be a cause. It was the BT Speedtester that indicated my IP profile was dropping to 500 so would that not mean that the cause is something beyond the line that comes into my house?
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