Sudden Bandwidth reduction

I hope that this is not a repeat of an earlier question - if so please
point me in the right direction.
For about a year now I have been running at about 2Mb quite happily.

About 3 months ago it suddenly fell progressively to a current 200k!
My ISP (Free-online) tried to help but said that it must be a line
problem and after about 2 months unilaterally closed the problem file.
BT came in and checked the line but report no problems.

My line check test with BT says (now) that I should only be able to get
512k in view of my distance from the exchange - so how come I was doing
so well before?

We had new neighbours move in who also have ADSL and, working from
home, 5 extra lines which necessitated putting in another o/head cable.
It seems co-incidental that my bandwidth reduction occurred at about
this time.

Has something else happened out there in the wide world which may be
re-allocating bandwidth?
How come there is no single body to talk to on such problems?

So many questions! Does anyone have any answers pls?

TOGTerryB

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
>My line check test with BT says (now) that I should only be able to get
>512k in view of my distance from the exchange - so how come I was doing
>so well before?



If you are a long way from your exchange the ADSL signal can be more
susceptable to interference from electrical equipment in the
neighbourhood. We had a situation on our road in which the broadband
connections to several homes was wiped out by radio frequency emissions
from a common type of miniature power supply .
Although my broadband was operating ok throughout it speeded up
considerably when the fault was rectified.
A key thing to keep an eye on is the s/n ratio which can be found in
many modem/router advanced tables, and the higher it is the better.
Of course this sort of problem is not necessarily related to a line
fault and so it can take months to get diagnosed and then there may be
a problem of persuading a 3rd party to disconnect the offending
equipment.
AIUI ADSL has been rolled out on the basis that if it works that's fine
but if not that's tough and no-one can be held liable.


J

Thanks John.

I guess I just have to live with this - no way of finding anything out
on this without specialised knowledge I guess.

I'll just have to see how the neighbours are doing but most of them
don't evere check their bandwidth,:-)

TerryB


(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> (E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> >My line check test with BT says (now) that I should only be able to get
> >512k in view of my distance from the exchange - so how come I was doing
> >so well before?
>
>
>
> If you are a long way from your exchange the ADSL signal can be more
> susceptable to interference from electrical equipment in the
> neighbourhood. We had a situation on our road in which the broadband
> connections to several homes was wiped out by radio frequency emissions
> from a common type of miniature power supply .
> Although my broadband was operating ok throughout it speeded up
> considerably when the fault was rectified.
> A key thing to keep an eye on is the s/n ratio which can be found in
> many modem/router advanced tables, and the higher it is the better.
> Of course this sort of problem is not necessarily related to a line
> fault and so it can take months to get diagnosed and then there may be
> a problem of persuading a 3rd party to disconnect the offending
> equipment.
> AIUI ADSL has been rolled out on the basis that if it works that's fine
> but if not that's tough and no-one can be held liable.
>
>
> J