Hello good people. This is my first post on site so please be gentle. I had "ordinary" broadband installed some years ago and all was OK until I started to have problems, disconnections, which is all you are really aware of. I "Googled" for information on fault finding and cutting a long story short, ended up with a program called "RouterStats-Lite". Download the sofware, it sorted itself out and began to log noise margin and line speed, my original modem was the Netgear DG834G V3. Using this software and the graphs it provided, I was able to prove to my ISP and BT that there was a fault on my line, BT engineer arrived and put the problem right, (noise on the line). Because of this, I promptly registered for medium fast broadband and it was installed on Friday 3rd. May, WOW, first speed test using TalkTalk's checker returned a download speed of 38Mbps, however, using other than my ISP's speed checker, I am getting on average 24Mbps. However, I am now working blind as the saying goes, with the new equipment; BT Modem type 1B, HUAEWI HG533 router, I have no idea where to start trying to monitor the connecting line parameters as before. Asking on my ISP's site,(TalkTalk) some kind sole wrote to try this site for help, that person also said that I may have to hack the BT equipment!!!!!!. Please understand I am a retired pensioner, ex machanical mining engineer, I know what a shifting spanner and a 2lb hammer are, but have no knowledge of transistors, resistors, capacitors or other feindish electronic devices, I will add that I have built all my computers since the "BBC A" era and I can install software, however if I then have a problem with that software, thats the point where I need to seek help. Is there a reasonably easy way to monitor the incoming telephone line parameters with software and using these two pieces of equipment?. Really I am only interested in the noise margin and the line speed, it was the many disconnections and the varying (wildly) of the noise margin that alerted me to the fact that there was in fact a problem in the first instance. Conversely, if it cant be done using software, is there another EASY way?.
Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
May I take the oportunity to thank you for taking the time to read my rather lengthy post.
regards,
derfledermause.