>> but I can't say I've heard of a 'battery error', and can't imagine what it would mean or why it would be equated with a dodgy cable.
Must admit I saw that too and wondered.
>> getting a low througput on bt speedtester on July 24th still synch at 6420 noise margin set at 6db
>> When I joined them I was apparently on a 'hot vp' so they did a tied pair modification with a card change as well.,
You are very lucky to get that for a hot vp!
Ive been in some pretty dire situation with a hot VP in the past and getting BT to do a VP swap is nigh on impossible. One case involved very low speeds frequently going way below the 400 kbps threshold.. and despite some fairly high ranking people getting involved and me graphing speeds daily for a few months.. BT wouldn't budge.
Took Ben Verwayeen himself to get things moving and even then I opted to go on 20:1 at additional cost to make sure it didnt occur again.
Ive also been involved in another dire situation going back further and it took 30+ users on the same VP and complaints from all of us via different ISPs to get BT to upgrade the VP.
Most other times though Ive just had to sit and wait it through... Since Max they use SuperVPs.. ie one large backhaul per MSAN, so a full lift and shift needed with some downtime.
I may be wrong but iirc your current ISP had some problems with capacity over the past couple of months and they had to wait for some new 21CN capacity.. and they also moved some users over to other (max) centrals to ease congestion.
>> Routerstats is not a good programme to monitor with.
Its a damn good tool and has helped identify and resolve many adsl problems.
I use MRTG which is the industry standard for long term logging, but if I want to quickly and easily monitor something in more detail I wouldnt hesitate to also use routerstats.
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You say youre on Max - but I notice your router is reporting some adsl2 framing... are you on 21CN do you know?
Check on the
adsl exchange checker to see if its available at your exchange.
>> it is a 56db line but in winter it was 55db.
Possible and not unusual.. but a 1dB increase could be adsl2+.. often it may be more, but because youre not actually making use of the higher frequencies, then it wont make as much difference as normal. Also thinking your approaching the limits where adsl2+ gives little advantage over adsl1
Long shot, but Im wondering if theres possibly some adsl2+ freakiness going on here.
TBH it looks on the face of it still looks like some sort of EMI coming from somewhere... and therefore follow the advice already given by the others.
