Been ten days since upgrde to ADSL2+.

[imjolly]

if it was mine then I would get the exiting master socket replaced with a new NTE5 or probably an NTE2000, filtered faceplate as first step

[imjolly]

from your pic it appears the bellwire is only connected to that socket terminal 3 as only 1 wire instead of the 2 in terminals 2 & 5

[lovelylisa22]

Can I remove it while the microfilter is plugged in.  I noticed I can take the faceplate off while it's still connected so I won't get a drop from too many disconnections.

[imjolly]

yes just disconenct the bellwire should be ok  just miss the others  lol

[lovelylisa22]

Will I not need to restart or anything to see the benefit though?

It won't resync or anything will it?

[lovelylisa22]

Noise margin has actually gone up to 9.5 lol.

[lovelylisa22]

Here are the new stats:  Notice though that the speed actually went up slightly before I removed the bellwire:

ADSL Line Status Connection Information Line state: Connected Connection time: 0 days, 00:20:45 Downstream: 12.99 Mbps Upstream: 1.118 Mbps   ADSL Settings VPI/VCI: 0/38 Type: PPPoA Modulation: G.992.5 Annex A Latency type: Interleaved Noise margin (Down/Up): 9.6 dB / 5.8 dB Line attenuation (Down/Up): 28.6 dB / 13.7 dB Output power (Down/Up): 20.4 dBm / 12.2 dBm FEC Events (Down/Up): 241622 / 14 CRC Events (Down/Up): 230 / 49 Loss of Framing (Local/Remote): 0 / 0 Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0 Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0 HEC Events (Down/Up): 10304 / 410 Error Seconds (Local/Remote): 220612 / 787

[john46]

you may get a slight speed increase now you have removed the bell wire how ever now your noise margin has increased you will now need 3days + stable connection before you can get the mods to reset it to the default 6 db again

[lovelylisa22]

Is there a chance it will set itself to 6db again?  It did happen before without even restarting during the ten day period.

[lovelylisa22]

What I mean is at 4 days connectoin it was 9 then at 5 it was 6.  I didn't restart the homehub and it didn't do it itself so can it be possible to happen itself just to clarify?