Ive just been informed that my neighbour who is on BT is having problems with speed..could it be related to L2 mode?
I went along 3 weeks back or so and tested his connection with my Netgear router for comparison to mine and other neighbours connected to same JB, he has now told my next door neighbour that he thinks I have broke his broadband connection because it is now slow (3 weeks later) , I can not confront him to help him deal with it as I will be dropping next door neighbour in the poo... so I have to smile and say hello and speak to him knowing he thinks ive broke his line,
I could drop this into conversation about L2 or just pop over and say "are you having any problems? because loads of people on BT ...blah blah..."
his SNR was fine and he was only getting 8Mb sync from a possible 16Mb connection, he has long extension cables running everywhere of which he attaches the home hub... but still, he has had it for years...
he has a V2 Home Hub which I know has a Broadcom 6358 chip , is it possible to enable telnet on this device and perhaps run DMT Tool on it? I can check power mode via that (im unfamilair with telnet commands in CMD)
I would just wait 130 seconds with all programs closed and the ping the router with
aldslctl info --stats and check the L0/L2 state yes?
if not, could I do it with Netgear with just the connection to exchange and no IP address (not connected to BT Broadband) as I dont have and cant get his login details (and wouldnt want to as he was paranoid the last time I wanted to)