Line Attenuation etc - whats it supposed to be

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:07:08 -0000, "Kraftee"
<(E-Mail Removed) please we're bristish.com> wrote:

>I must disagree as a doubling of your speed will result in around 6dB
>loss in your SNR & seeing as your SNR is apparently 15dB, 4Mb will take
>it to 10dB (being optimistic) & a further doubling will take you to
>4-5dB which will probably give you problems....

been on the beer ?

The person to whom I was replying had a downstream margin of 24 dB
<(E-Mail Removed)>

15 dB was the upstream attenuation :-)

Phil
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Phil Thompson wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 23:07:08 -0000, "Kraftee"
> <(E-Mail Removed) please we're bristish.com> wrote:
>
>> I must disagree as a doubling of your speed will result in around 6dB
>> loss in your SNR & seeing as your SNR is apparently 15dB, 4Mb will
>> take it to 10dB (being optimistic) & a further doubling will take
>> you to 4-5dB which will probably give you problems....
>
> been on the beer ?
>
> The person to whom I was replying had a downstream margin of 24 dB
> <(E-Mail Removed)>
>
> 15 dB was the upstream attenuation :-)
>
> Phil

Whoops, looked at the incorrect figure, me must remember to not go on
newsgroups after spending day (a very long day) with parents, kids &
grand kids...

I'll crawl back into bed now.....