well this is my story so far when we all became max speed adsl people all was brillient my modem reported a connection speed of 3.2Mbs out of a possible 3.4Mbs max line connection speed pretty good i thought for someone who was on a miserly 256 / 128 plan befor and about 4K's away from the exchange well that was the good bit now the bad bit by the naxt day i had to reset my modem why because it couldn't connect to the net fine i thought just a few tething probs rechecked the connection speed in the router interface a ho whats this im now only connected at 2.2Mbs with a max line rate of 2.4 hmmm thinks me whats goin on here well thats been the story everyday from then on reset the modem slower speed connections ranging from as low as 1.2Mbs upto a high of 2.3Mbs so i rang orcon who said they'd take a squiz at it they did and got back to me to say we think its an interleaving problem we'll have it turned back on telecom guy rang to ask me to reset the modem i did this and wait for it w------ait for it oooooo 3.1Mbs then next day failed to connect to the net well i'll reset the modem and blow me down if its not slower (1.2Mbs) :( errrr whats goin on this aint what im paying 50 bucks a month for i then get an email from orcon with the job ticket number and what they had asked telecom to do so sent a reply back after a couple of days just to see if things got better with time (they didn't) well today i just recieved a email from the orcon techie askin me if the speeds were actual reported speeds by the router or from some speedtest site all this two weeks after i replied to his email and he asked for updated line speed and attenuations readings which i gave him

and this is what they were so if anyone here has the foggiest notion of what the mean please be my guest and tell all
here's the reading taken at 3:30am today 

 

line rate :                  1728   down    : 160      up

Attainable line rate:    1888   down    : 960      up

Noise Margin:            19.1dB down    : 25.0dB up

Line Attenuation:        55.0dB down    : 31.5dB up

Output Power:           18.9dBm down : 2.7dBm up