I live at a house (I own) which has mediocre ADSL performance. We're on Telecom.
I've installed a master filter in the ETP with a straight run of CAT5e to a dedicated jackpoint for the ADSL. I'm confiedent that it's terminated correctly, with Scotchlocs etc. We're running a Draytek Vigor 120 in PPPoA to PPPoE bridge mode.
I live right on the edge of an exchange area the house over the fence is on a cabinet so I'm aware that it may just be a limitation of the exchange (Blockhouse Bay in Auckland). The Chorus network map does suggest we should get >10Mb
The one interesting thing is we do sometimes get a bit of a crackly phone line, it is intermittent though. It doesn't seem to affect ADSL performance.
I'm just curious is there anything else I should be doing or getting Telecom to have a look at? Modem stats are as below, and performance is stable and consistent.
--------------------------- ATU-R Info (hw: annex A, f/w: annex A) -----------
DSL Modulation : ADSL2+(G.992.5)
State : SHOWTIME
DS Actual Rate : 6337313 bps US Actual Rate : 977022 bps
DS Attainable Rate : 6060000 bps US Attainable Rate : 977000 bps
DS Path Mode : Fast US Path Mode : Fast
DS Interleave Depth : 1 US Interleave Depth : 1
NE Current Attenuation : 34 dB Cur SNR Margin : 11 dB
DS actual PSD : 18. 1 dB US actual PSD : 12. 1 dB
ADSL Firmware Version : 321311_A
-------------------------------- ATU-C Info ---------------------------------
Far Current Attenuation : 17 dB Far SNR Margin : 11 dB
CO ITU Version[0] : 00004244 CO ITU Version[1] : 0000434d