thanks for the insight BS...
well...guess what ....
IT HAS BEEN FIXED!!! 8) 8) 8)
it was a
split leg!!
- down at the exchange (I think, cant remember now) but he said a wire on my pair was in contact with a wire from another...or at least explained it like that... strange how its not picked up by any of the other engineers, I asked about the test he run and he said it wasnt an A/C Balance test but a Wideband Noise Test..??
its not back to its best..the radio stations are bleeding in just a TINY bit more comapred to before all this happened... Iam getting
15.7Mb so far on my 834N ..ive yet to test my other routers...but its 'about' right so Iam happy with that - ive never really tried my netgears with sky before all this happened - so it was the sky router which got an 18Mb sync with DLM on (on 18Mb profile) - the sky router has a much better BCM 6362 chip and defo gets higher sync than my Netgears...also my 834N reports 27.5db / 28db Line Atten ...higher than my 834GT (26db) and much higher than my Sky Router F@ST 2504N (25db)
He said that I was getting 17.9Mb at the cab, the cab is just around the corner, well about 2 mins walk away.
Yes it was the SAME Engineer...working on the Monday like he said he would... he was much nicer this time around too and even wished us a happy bank holiday!?
totally different man today lol...
Netgear 834GT = 26.5db / 15.6Mb / 1.14Mb (Broadcom 6348)
Netgear 834N = 27.5db / 15.7Mb / 1.17Mb (Broadcom 6358)
Sagem 2504N = 26.0db / 16.6Mb / 1.14Mb (Broadcom 6362)as you can see sky's router (6362) obliterates the Netgears (6348/6358) BUT is not unlocked so cant be tweaked
(only sky router that isnt) , I can push 18Mb in Netgears with 3-4db SNRM , would like to see what I could get on an unlocked Sagem F@ST 250N
the Upstream Line Attenuation is still jumping all over the place though...
HERE IS BEFORE / AFTER OF THE QLN STATS - I would also like to say a big THANK YOU to everyone who helped with my case and sussing out the noise with graphs etc so I could present them to sky for evidence... especially BALD_EAGLE, ASBOKID, COOLSNAKEMAN, KITZ, B'KAT, UKHARDY07 AND BLACK SHEEP ..if I missed anyone out its just cos my memory stats from 834GT: