Re: How to increase gain of BT line

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005 08:25:06 +0100, "Martin Underwood" <news@xxxxxxx>
wrote:


>The other router that I've tried (Netgear DG834G)
>displays blank values for attenuation and noise margin when connected to the
>customer's line (and healthy 6 dB attenuation and 30 dB noise margin when
>connected to my line).

it can only get values if its in synch.

>> If the broadband is intermittent get the ISP to send out a BT ADSL
>> engineer.
>
>It's not intermittent. It's a permanent failure ever since ADSL was ordered
>on the line back in May :-( At that time, the ISP got BT to do line checks
>(from the exchange?) which came back "no fault found".

these "line checks" are another urnban legend, they can run a copper
circuit test remotely which is essentially a voice test, but people
are usually aware of the voice working or not.

It would not reveal (for example) if the line had not been physically
connected to the ADSL equipment in the exchange. Hence it needs a BT
engineer to attend and work through the system end to end. ISPs are
crap at getting BT out.

>I'm sure I've seen numerous references in this and other groups to BT
>increasing the gain on a line to get ADSL working. I must have
>misunderstood.

legends are like that, oft repeated but seldom true.

Phil
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