Hello All
I am just dropping a line with a little bit of advice for V.D.S.L customers who may not have done everything possible to eek all the speed they can out of their connections, all of the speeds i shall mention are downstream as that is really what was of interest to me.

I live in Christchurch and inquired about V.D.S.L through snap! N.K.A Two Degrees I was told that according to Chorus I couldn't get it as A.D.S.L 2+ was the best I could do in my area, I had an A.D.S.L 2+ connection previously and was pulling approximately 1.8 Meg per second, which was to me O.K but I decided to go to V.D.S.L being that I am a heavy user of the Steam Gaming Service and of course games are getting absolutely monstrous in size these days - at least the ones I like are generally 25+ Gig. One of the peeps at 2degrees got a confirmation report done and ended up managing to arrange a V.D.S.L install done even though my S.N.R was 12 and my line attenuation was 20.

After my line was switched to V.D.S.L which we only incidentally found out from the ISP when the A.D.S.L just stopped working I went in and picked up the Fritzbox 7490 -
( note this doesn't normally happen but I have a disabled wife with a heart condition and we had to have at bare minimum a working phone system ).
I got everything hooked up and finally managed to get Sync - but the speed was terribly disappointing and I ended up with getting basically what was a very fancy IP phone system and 1.6 Meg per second downloads.

Recently I installed Fritz!OS 6.30 and this made a massive difference and my box then went from 16700 approx max attainable to 19300 max attainable  and whats more the speed of the connection always seemed to be around max - nicely done A.V.M. After doing some further reading I discovered something mentioned called a Master Splitter having been with Telstra previously and then with Snap from that point forward I didn't know what was on our phone system, I had a look at the demark and found something that said it was a Splitter but it was for cable services and the phone line was not connected to it but previously having had a line capturing alarm and various extensions I decided to get a Splitter installed anyway just to eliminate any further house wiring issues.

Now having had the Master Splitter Installed and subsequently finding out that we now no longer have a P.O.T.S line which was news to me as I did not know from speaking to two degrees that we were now on naked broadband I have discovered exactly how much difference all that extra stuff has made when my speed improved by 100.734% after the Splitter was installed. My S.N.R is now wavering between 11 and 12 and my line attenuation has dropped from 20 to 16, maximum attainable rate is now 38741.

If you haven't had a splitter installed get one its well worth the 199$ fee.

Now if anyone else has any info on how I can possibly increase this speed further or improve on the S.N.R or line attenuation I'd appreciate knowing about it.