Thank you ian - that confirms the very weird stats.
@ naheed - bad news I'm afraid.
59dB is indicative of a very long line.
To put it into laymans terms, the longer the line the more the adsl signal decreases, hence why you cant get higher speeds.
59dB is indicative of a line length of 4.3km.. which fits fairly well with the road estimate of 4.18 km if you add a bit extra for wires 'going round the houses'.
On a
good 59db line, we'd expect to see a sync of 'up to' around 2900 kbps based on a 6dB SNRM.
The jury is still out on whether your SNRM is set at 9 or 12dB. The only way we can have an inkling of what your SNRM is, is by taking some stats
immediately after a reboot. But on average each additional 3dB of SNRM costs around 800 kbps of speed (it can actually be anything from 400-1200kbps).
So for example, if your SNRM is 9dB... then we'd expect your line to sync somewhere in the region of 2100 kbps. Based on that information it would seem that your line is performing at about the best it can for now.
To try and eke a little bit more speed out, the best thing you can do now is try and stabilise that line and get the SNRM down to 6dB.
You've recently carried out the best way of doing this by removing the bell wire and connecting at the master socket.
From the figures provided recently I dont see any signs of noise bursts which is good - You'd need to run something like
routerstats over a longer period to confirm this.
If we can find out what your SNRM is, and after running routerstats for a while to confirm that the line is stable.. you may be able to approach your ISP and ask for them to reset your SNRM. You'd need to say something like 'Ive recently removed the bell wire and the line is now much more stable blah blah blah.. can you reset the SNRM please' Before doing that though it is important that we find out what your SNRM is.. and that the line is stable. Hopefully that may push your speed up to nearer that 2900kbps mark.
