Hi,
Over the past few months our DSL line downstream attenuation has gradually increased, from 54.5dB to now 57 or 57.5dB. To my mind that's a fairly significant change, given that we're on a long line and need all the signal strength we can get. The most recent change corresponds to the repair of a fairly major fault, with according to the OR guy something like a mile of cable being replaced. Why would that have caused a worsening attenuation? Thinner gauge cable, or just more joints in the line?
I suspect the answer is probably no, but is there anything that we can do over the medium/long term to resist this gradual deterioration of the line? At the moment it seems like every time a fault is fixed the line gets reinstated to just a little bit lower quality than before the fault.
Cheers, Tony S