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BT engineer is magic!
I honestly cant believe this.... yesterday my phone decided it was going to die, taking my broadband down with it so i phoned up BT (who own the phone lines here in the UK) who sent someone out to fix it.
Now i don't know what he did, he said something about changing something in the box which is the junction between where my phone leaves the house and the main "trunk line" to the exchange... but he has managed to make my broadband impossibly fast for my line length,
My stats yesterday (before the fault)
Downstream Sync Rate - 6496 kbps
Attenuation - 42
SNR Margin 6
IP profile (basically the speed that BT let you have, based on the sync speed): 5500 kbps
usual "actual" download speed (after overheads): about 5200kbps
stats after he fiddled with the box:
Downstream Sync Rate - 8096 kbps
Attenuation - 42
SNR Margin 6
IP profile: 7000 kbps
actual download speed (after overheads) 6400kbps
now my exchange supports "up to 8mbps" which means basically that if you live next door to the exchange you get 8Mbps (actually 7Mbps because of the IP profile) so basically, my 3 mile long line, is the same as someone who lives on top of the exchange
Im pretty sure thats actually technically impossible!
Magic :)