In the past I had a modem/router which had been connecting about 3Mbps when I thought I ought to be getting more out of my line. I replaced the device with another modem and router and at the same time changed some of the wiring inside the house. Since then my synch speed has been gradually increasing and the line profile going up with it. Quite recently I was connecting at 6.5Mbps and had a line profile of 5000kbps, and I still thought there was more to come. (SNR margin at the time as 6~9dB, depending on the time of day).
Then it rained.
On the same day it rained, I came home from work to find that the synch speed had dropped to 4.5Mbps and the SNR margin was the same (about 6dB). Prior to this I had noticed the same thing happen (i.e. the speed dropped at the start of a period of rain), but as at that point it was only a one-off occurence, I didn't think about it much. It seems there needs to be some period of dry weather after the rain before the speed starts to increase again. (At least that's what I remember from last time, and it seems to be holding true again now). The speed or SNR margin doesn't go back up as soon as the rain stops.
Now it's a two-off event, is it still just a coincidence? Or is there likely to be something getting wet during rain that is making the line noisier?
Neil