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I notice Freeola now have a slighter cheaper connection available than the one I am currently on. Is it easy/worth me swapping my connections over to this? (our family has 3 in total and across them it would seem to be a worthwhile saving). I'm just a little bit wary of doing anything with my home connection as I've had issues with it in the past (that strangely seemed to rectify themselves). Its been well behaved for a while now & I don't want to upset it!

Took Noise Margin down to 6db a few days ago.

Freeola support reckon they can see errors on the line but I can't say I'm noticing any adverse effects so far.

Taking it down to the 3db my previous circuit was on would seem like a bridge too far though.


ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 15850 kbps 1021 kbps
Line Attenuation 30.0 db 17.9 db
Noise Margin 6.1 db 8.8 db

Just a quick update, everything's still good for me :)

Hopefully same for you Jim.

Good to know Pete.

I've requested mine to be taken down to 6db too.

Just to let you know my connection has been fine on 6db profile, it's remained stable and speed is around 8.5 Mbs. Pleased with that, looks like this new tariff could be a winner. Thanks again everyone.

Thanks Eccles, seems fine at the moment. Speed averaging around 8.5Mbs and not experienced any stability issues so far, if it stays like that I'll be happy, thanks again everyone.

Pete, you should find your router stats showing 6dB SNR now so let us know how the connection goes.

Hmmm... wrote:
I would restart your router during daylight hours and immediately check the line stats. Your line will connect using your target SNRM.

You'll get your best sync speed as 'noise' is less during the day.

Seeing your stats now it's hard to say if your target is 9db and we are seeing the normal night time reduction in margin.


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Thanks Hmmm, your help is appreciated. I did the date time resync you suggested. I have now requested trying a 6db profile to see how I get on. if my connection does become unstable I'll move back to this one. Overall I'm much happier than I was initially, I'm getting close to the performance of my old connection :)

I would restart your router during daylight hours and immediately check the line stats. Your line will connect using your target SNRM.

You'll get your best sync speed as 'noise' is less during the day.

Seeing your stats now it's hard to say if your target is 9db and we are seeing the normal night time reduction in margin.


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This is what is showing for me now:


ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
Connection Speed 9604 kbps 1023 kbps
Line Attenuation 38.5 db 21.5 db
Noise Margin 6.4 db 11.7 db

Does this mean I am now on a 6db profile? (Or should I request this?).

All seems OK, still totally stable.

pete_21 wrote:
Thanks Hmmm, appreciate that. My old connection averaged around 9 -11 Mbs so if my new connection is able to remain stable at a 6db setting (which I will request trying next week) I reckon this might be pretty similar. The 9db setting I'm currently on isn't too bad though, if my connection does become unstable at a lower setting I'll be happy with this.


No problem. Sounds good!
It looks like Freeola might have a competitive product here :¬)

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