Hi,
My boadband was upgraded to MaxDSL back in March I think, and I was happy with my stats:
Connection Speed 5664 kbps
Attenuation 32db
SNR 15db
IP Profile of 4500 - which is right.
Happy, until I read your site! As my router is connected straight to the BT master socket I never realied that my internal wiring could be adversley effecting my connetion speed. My internal wiring is bad - telephone sockets in every room, only half of which work because mice have chewed the wiring. So I tried connecting straight from the test socket. Connection speed was 7200 - a vast improvement. Not wanting to redo all the extensions, because I'm lazy, I ordered a NTE5 faceplate.
With the new plate stats were:
Connection Speed 7392kbps
Attenuation 29db
SNR 15db
Waited three days and the IP Profile went upto 6500, which is where it should be.
The router hasn't disconnected once since I changed the faceplate (about a week). I've being monitoring the router stats with RouterStats 2.7g. My SNR drops to 13db at night with the odd blip to 10db but never lower. The software is reporting that interleaving is turned on.
I think that my target SNR has been increased to 15db. I was thinking that if I could get it back to 6db, the extra 9db might get my connection speed upto the maximum?
How do I get this changed? I've read somewhere that if the connecton remains synched for 14 days the taret SNR is automatically lowered. If this is the case how does it actually get applied - I mean to connet at a higher speed with a lower target SNR would require a reconnet, but if its been stable for 14 days this is highly unlikely?
Also, with such a stable connection now, should interleaving be turned off? and if so how do I get this done?
Incidently my router is and old Netgear DG834 v1, with an old firmware. I tried using a higher firmware, but I couldnt make it do what I needed it to do (ie NO NAT and No firewall - I want my firewall on an ISA Server not the router)
Thanks in advance, Glen