I have had a couple of month of annoying calls to BT India without success, so I am glad that I found this web forum.
From the advice given I have changed from the BT Home Hub to Netgear DG834Gv3, but I am worried that I not going to see any benefits because the "Actual IP thoughput" has not increased. Refer to stats below:
http://speedtester.bt.com/IP profile for your line is - BTHH =1000 kbps Netgear = 1000kbps
DSL connection rate - 450 kbps(UP-STREAM) Netgear = 450kbps
2800 kbps(DOWN-STREAM) Netgear = 3300kbps
(note the 2800 speed is after a reset of the Home Hub - about half a day later the speed normally drops to 1600kbps - the NetGear modem surprised me as after half a day it increased from 3000 to 3300).
Line Attenuation Down-Stream has improved from 49-50 to 46-47 and the SNR margin is down to 3 from 6-10.
Actual IP throughput achieved during the test was - 928 kbps. This is confirmed by various other sites (speedtest.net / auditmypc / thinkbroad). Note that I had seen the speed limited to below 500kbps on some tests despite the IP profile measure at BT. This drop off is not occuring with the Netgear equip.
Question 1: Is the Down-Stream the optimal speed for my connection given my Line Attenuation and SNR Margin readings?
Question 2: Is the IP Profile determined with reference to the Down-Stream speed and the number of errors encountered on the faulty line and/or faulty HomeHub?
Question 3: Will the IP Profile and actual IP throughput increase in the next couple of days (i.e. every three days) until it reaches the best position between speed and errors?Question 4: I think that Interleaving is turned off at the moment (according to Telnet stats "avalanche" test).
Should I have Interleaving on or off? Note I use this service for torrents and video/audio streams and not for gaming.
Now that I have changed to Netgear, I am stuck wondering if I can still use the BT BroadBand Talk service. People may dislike the service but I think it great that I have not been charged for a single call since the service started (BT finally get one wrong that is in my favour
).
Question 5: Can I link the Home hub phones to the NetGear router?I also tried out that DMT tool v8.09. It did not seem to like the DG834Gv3 equipment.
Question 6: Have I missed something or is there a different DMT program?