Reconnection
July 13th, 2007 | Filed under Technology.
Yeah, I’m online again 
Am I screaming along at 24Mbits? No… I’m sort of running along at around 7-8Mb depending on many factors, the main one being the amount of copper wiring between me and the exchange, 3.1Km away.
After finding the wonderous DMT and connecting it to my ADSL router I managed to tweak my connection and increase the speed by an extra 2Mb/s but the error rate was rather high and things like streaming audio kept cutting out. I found my biggest speed problem was down to the two phone extensions in this house. Before removing them I was synching with the exchange at 4Mb. After removing the front of my BT master socket and connecting the ADSL router directly to the “test” socket inside I could sync at 6Mb and with fiddling coax 9Mb out of it.
I think that’s my limit though, DMT has a graph of the ADSL signal as it reaches the router and there’s an entire chunk of missing frequencies which is most likely down to the line length. It’s better than 2Mb though
