Re: Is it worth changing to ADSL Max

Michael Chare wrote:
"John" <fredclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:3boZNJAjkxFIFwkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
In article <67o97mF2qeahtU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, BJH
<barryh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
I have chosen to stay with vanilla ADSL at 512 K. This is extremely
stable, and I turn down the offer of ADSLMax for stability reasons as,
at the time, I had access to company servers via a VPN tunnel.



My line has about a 60db loss. I changed from 512K to ADSLmax about a year ago. I get 3 times the speed, but the connection does occasionally fail (say every 2 days) though I don't usually notice this.

As I said in another thread last week, I went from a 1 Meg fixed ADSL1 connection at 13dB SNR, to a 2.7 Meg ADSL2 connection at what has settled down to be 11-12 dB SNR. Upstream is 509k.

What's odd is that the attenuation has dropped from 63dB, to 58 dB, perhaps because the routing at the exchange has changed.

And to think that in 2001/2002 BT refused to provide any ADSL service, saying my line was far too long for even 512k to work :-)


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