Basically I'm with Plusnet and have been for a long time. I've been fairly lucky and not really had any problems. My line has always been quick enough and certainly stable.
Since I've been upgraded to 8mb I'm connecting at 8128kbps Downstream and 448kbps Upstream which is as expected.
My line attenuation is pretty good as I'm not far from the exchange. 26db down and 9db upstream.
I think my problem lies with the Noise margin. I'm not very well up on how ADSL works and how phone lines function so I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me as I know a few people on here are.
From what I know the noise margin is the higher the better, and anything lower than 6db would be bad, giving an unreliable connection. Mine is dropping to a low of 3db at which most ADSL hardware won't even function from what I've read. Last night it hovered around 6db and this morning had dragged itself up to 8db. Which seemed okay when playing Doom on 360, unlike last night where I had the worst lag I've ever seen.
I've logged it with Plusnet, so I expect they'll look into it sometime before Christmas if I'm lucky. Is there anything I can do to try and improve my connection or am I just going to have to get the line speed reduced to get it stable again? Before they ramped it up to 8meg speeds were good and the connection was stable, now it's very bursty and I often lose my Xbox live connection and lag is ubearable.
One other thing. I think plusnet have interleaving switched on for all connections. This should stabilise things a little shouldn't it, but mainly for surfing? But also have a negative effect on gaming?
Anyone tried Sky Broadband yet?
Since I've been upgraded to 8mb I'm connecting at 8128kbps Downstream and 448kbps Upstream which is as expected.
My line attenuation is pretty good as I'm not far from the exchange. 26db down and 9db upstream.
I think my problem lies with the Noise margin. I'm not very well up on how ADSL works and how phone lines function so I'm hoping someone can shed some light on this for me as I know a few people on here are.
From what I know the noise margin is the higher the better, and anything lower than 6db would be bad, giving an unreliable connection. Mine is dropping to a low of 3db at which most ADSL hardware won't even function from what I've read. Last night it hovered around 6db and this morning had dragged itself up to 8db. Which seemed okay when playing Doom on 360, unlike last night where I had the worst lag I've ever seen.
I've logged it with Plusnet, so I expect they'll look into it sometime before Christmas if I'm lucky. Is there anything I can do to try and improve my connection or am I just going to have to get the line speed reduced to get it stable again? Before they ramped it up to 8meg speeds were good and the connection was stable, now it's very bursty and I often lose my Xbox live connection and lag is ubearable.
One other thing. I think plusnet have interleaving switched on for all connections. This should stabilise things a little shouldn't it, but mainly for surfing? But also have a negative effect on gaming?
Anyone tried Sky Broadband yet?
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