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CFL's have a varying effect, i.e. some cause issues, some dont Andrew Ferguson, andrew@thinkbroadband.com www.thinkbroadband.com - formerly known as ADSLguide.org.uk

In reply to a post by GunJack : sometimes you've just got to keep badgering them to do it properly After almost 3 months of to-ing and fro-ing with LLU provider, they've had BT out now 5 times to my fault , and it looks like today may have finally done the trick (fingers X'ed, touch wood, etc.) and changed the pair from exchange rack to entry point (but without the lift & shift that last OR bod recommended)....

In reply to a post by PhilipD : Already done, it's called common mode noise rejection, which is why we use twisted pairs and is how the modem can reject the noise of distance MW radio stations. Common mode rejection can stop interference from reaching the modem, but once it's there, the only way that a modem can reject the noise is by not using those frequencies. This will invariably cause a drop in sync speed, because of...

Interesting; I thought it may just have been some random thing I'd come across. I don't know if it's an issue with Netgear routers, but they seem very sensitive to very slight power fluctuations. Our lights dimmed briefly the other week (I think the Americans would call that a power brownout!). Nothing was affected, except the router which was bizarrely sort of half-reset as it lost synch but the wireless stayed on.

Hi Weak distant stations no real issue, nearby powerful ones, it may be just about OK during the day. People can tell the frequency of stations from the bin plots, which effectively end up in a notched arrangement of bins. Early ANFP docs were concerned about AM radio being affected by ADSL. I agree and see the same thing, my point was that distant weak radio stations that appear at night are not the main reason for increased noise levels and...

In reply to a post by MrSaffron : What is reporting that the Internet connection is still up? At a guess you are talking about an Icon in the operating system that is part of UPnP and I would not trust that at all. Tech support I suspect are confused, since you are telling them the Internet connection is reported as working, but it is also not working. I'm sorry, MrSaffron, but who are you addressing? I am not assuming that a symbol...

if you dial 17070 do you get the phone number read out and is this the same as the broadband is supposed to be on ? No flashing light on router means router can't see DSLAM so it looks like a provisioning fault. Phil MaxDSL - goes as fast as it can and doesn't read the line checker first. MaxDSL diagnostics Are your kids pirates ? Limewire, Bearshare, Kazaa, BitTorrent, eMule are all tools of the trade.

Thanks for that - it helps my confidence as I can't get MAAF to spell out exactly when/why the charge could be raised but nor could I see what else I could do to exclude anything under my control. Today the phone has a nasty background drone (like the sound of distant propeller planes) which is a repeat of a problem of some weeks ago. I had to smile when I drove down the lane this morning as there was a BT engineer working at a pole...

In reply to a post by Chrysalis : you mean you had a problem with similiar symptons that noone else has publicly reported. No, I mean I had the same problem on sky and I fixed it by migrating to BE.

Thanks for the clear explanation. It makes much more sense now. Out of interest what is the next speed profile above the one I have?