Re: Creeping upgrades

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008 20:02:50 +0100
The Natural Philosopher <a@b.c> wrote:

> Ato_Zee wrote:
> >> My router keeps reporting an increased line rate.  Every few days the
> >> rate is better.
> >
> > If it has been running at low error rate then it will over a period
> > of time rate adapt to a higher sync speed.
> > If you were to regularly switch the modem off/on it might
> > well see the line as unstable and downspeed.
> > If you can get attenuation from the control panel (some
> > crap modems don't give you SNR and attenuation) then
> > if there was a bad connection, water in the street cable,
> > or your line has been rerouted then its attenuation and
> > speed would reflect this.
>
> Weather conditions also. On any reasonable line length the cables act as
> brilliant MW receivers. Conditions for good MW reception and bad ADSL
> are typically after dark, with cool clear skies..so soggy wet days are
> often better.

and it has been soggy!  So this might be a length of underground
cable that has water around it acting as an RF shield?  Hm...  I would
have expected to have seen the phenomenon before in that case - this is
Cumbria, it's often very wet.  I usually switch off/on in the morning
about 8 AM, otherwise it just goes off when I put noise on with my
power tools :)

R.
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