My ADSL speeds went up when the bell wire was disconnected.

This page reports that when I disconnected the Bell wire at my master socket faceplate, My ADSL connection downloads went from a disappointing 136 kbs to a very acceptable 5250 kbs Downstream and ~4000kbps download.

Here is the main page.

Plots of Thomson TG585 v8's "xdsl info" and "xdsl debug bitloadinginfo" captured by a Perl script

Below is a spectrogram of the results of "xdsl info" and "xdsl debug bitloadinginfo" captured by Perl script output from Thomson TG585 v8 ADSL router. I have a Perl script to poll the ADSL modem each time I turned on my PC and when I wanted. I telnet onto the modem and run the commands and log the output. I use a LUA script to generate the graphic files below.

Latest Measurement: script.


Latest Spectrogram: script.




On about 19th June 2011 I upgraded my ADSL modem to eTEC Model Name: 8411G . The Upstream / downstream speeds of were 444/ 9866 kbps


System   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
  Model Name: 8411G 
 System UpTime: 12 min 
 Software Version: 8411G_ETC_050407.02FA  
 UI Version: 1.001 
 Firmware Version: 1.3.8 
 DSP Version: 2.7.1.8 
DSL   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
  DSL Status: SHOWTIME.L0   ADSL2+ 
 Upstream Speed: 444 kbps  (Fast) 
 Downstream Speed: 9866 kbps  (Fast) 
LAN   
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

On about 5th July 2011 I have upgraded my ADSL modem to Plusnet's Standard Issue. The Upstream / downstream speeds of were pretty good but have stuck at 444 / 4544 kbps

NOTE: 01/07/2011 I have signed up to "a Broadband trial for TV services", and upgraded to the Plusnets standard issue modem Thomson TG585 v8 Plusnet 8.2.7.8.DA. On 5th July 2011 I have upgraded my ADSL modem to Plusnet's Standard Issue and found how to extract the data for these plots. The Upstream / downstream speeds of were pretty good but have stuck at 444 / 4544 kbps. Hopefully this is due to the many outages due to replacing the ADSL modems.

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Appendix: Example of "xdsl info" and "xdsl debug bitloadinginfo" captured by Perl script output from Thomson TG585 v8

Typical Output:


"xdsl info";
"xdsl debug bitloadinginfo";



============================================
 starting:Tue Jul 5 08:24:13 UTC+0100 2011
============================================
================================================= 
====== ? 
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                             ______  Thomson TG585 v8
                         ___/_____/\ 
                        /         /\\  Plusnet 8.2.7.8.DA
                  _____/__       /  \\ 
                _/       /\_____/___ \  Copyright (c) 1999-2010, THOMSON
               //       /  \       /\ \
       _______//_______/    \     / _\/______ 
      /      / \       \    /    / /        /\
   __/      /   \       \  /    / /        / _\__ 
  / /      /     \_______\/    / /        / /   /\
 /_/______/___________________/ /________/ /___/  \ 
 \ \      \    ___________    \ \        \ \   \  /
  \_\      \  /          /\    \ \        \ \___\/
     \      \/          /  \    \ \        \  /
      \_____/          /    \    \ \________\/
           /__________/      \    \  /
           \   _____  \      /_____\/
            \ /    /\  \    /___\/
             /____/  \  \  /
             \    \  /___\/
              \____\/

------------------------------------------------------------------------
{doug}

====== 
Modem state:                  		 up
Up time (Days hh:mm:ss):      		 0 days, 23:13:05
xDSL Type:                    		 ADSL2+
Bandwidth (Down/Up - kbit/s): 		 4544/444
{doug}

====== 
   Tone :  # Bits per tone
      0 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  2  2 
     10 :   4  4  6  6  6  7  7  7  7  7 
     20 :   6  6  7  6  6  6  6  6  5  4 
     30 :   4  2  0 11 13 13 13 13 13 14 
     40 :  13 14 14 14 14 14 13 14 14 14 
     50 :  14 14 13 13 13 14 14 14 13 13 
     60 :  14 14 13 14  0 13 13 12 13 13 
     70 :  13 12 12 12 12 12 13 12 13 13 
     80 :  13 12 12 13 12 13 12 12 12 13 
     90 :  13 13 12 13 12 13 12 12 12 12 
    100 :  11 11 11 11 11 12 11 11 11 11 
    110 :   0 12 12 11 11 11 11 11 11 11 
    120 :  11 11 11 11 11 11 11  0 11 11 
    130 :  11 11 11 11 12 11 11 11 11 11 
    140 :  11 11 10 10 10 10 10 11 10 10 
    150 :  10 10 11 10 10 10  9  9 10  9 
    160 :   8  5  9 10 11 10 10 10 10  8 
    170 :  10 10  9  9  9 10  9  9  9  8 
    180 :   8 10  9 10  9  9 10  9  0  9 
    190 :   9  0  9  9  9  9  9  9  9  9 
    200 :   9  9  9  9  9  9  9  9  9  9 
    210 :   9  6  8  9  9  6  9  9  9  9 
    220 :   9  9  9  8  9  9 10  9  9  9 
    230 :   8  9  9  9  7  9  7  8  6  8 
    240 :   8  9  8  0  6  7  8  7  7  7 
    250 :   7  6  0  0  6  7  7  7  7  7 
    260 :   6  6  6  6  5  5  4  4  3  1 
    270 :   0  0  0  0  2  2  4  4  5  5 
    280 :   5  5  0  6  6  5  4  6  5  6 
    290 :   3  0  3  4  4  6  4  3  3  3 
    300 :   2  5  3  5  2  4  4  2  6  5 
    310 :   3  2  5  4  3  3  2  2  2  2 
    320 :   2  4  2  0  3  4  2  2  2  3 
    330 :   2  2  2  2  0  2  2  2  2  2 
    340 :   0  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  0  2 
    350 :   2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  2  1 
    360 :   2  0  2  2  2  1  1  1  0  0 
    370 :   0  0  0  1  0  1  1  0  0  0 
    380 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    390 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    400 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    410 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    420 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    430 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    440 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    450 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    460 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    470 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    480 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    490 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    500 :   0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0  0 
    510 :   0  0 

{doug}