55/10 now 49/10 + disconnects/restarts after 2 years stable

[Cab7]

Been on Fibre 1 for almost 2 years. Had a perfectly stable 55/10mbps throughout. Several weeks ago I started getting drops in connection and the line was then capped at 49/10.  Drops have now become a daily occurrence. Some days are more frequent causing the data rate to lower even further to ~28mbps and even cause the odd hub restart.

Dsl checker seems to show a problem just at this property as everyone else on the street, including neighbours either side, have the higher speeds.

Ours:

Neighbours:

[licquorice]

You have a line fault which is causing DLM to reduce your speed in an attempt to stabilise your line.

Until the fault is rectified, your seed won't improve. Report the fault to BT.

[imjolly]

Have you checked you landline for noise?  DiL 17070 option 2. Should be silent and any noise is a problem

[Cab7]

Give it a shot.  Hazard a guess at what may have caused this? Seems strange for a fault to single out a single property like that. Work was being done at the exchange around the same time.

[Cab7]

On Digital Voice if that makes any difference. Can make out a slight bit of white noise. Hard to tell if it's the handset or line. It's pretty old.

[licquorice]

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@Cab7 wrote:

Give it a shot.  Hazard a guess at what may have caused this? Seems strange for a fault to single out a single property like that. Work was being done at the exchange around the same time.

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Of course it isn't strange for an individual line to go faulty, why would you think it is?

[Cab7]

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@licquoricewrote:

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@Cab7wrote:

Give it a shot.  Hazard a guess at what may have caused this? Seems strange for a fault to single out a single property like that. Work was being done at the exchange around the same time.

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Of course it isn't strange for an individual line to go faulty, why would you think it is?

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No idea. Past fault experiences always seemed to affect close neighbours too. Just puzzled where this came from after 2 years, that's all.

[imjolly]

If you are on digital voice then the quite line test is of no use

[pippincp]

Unfortunately the DSL checker results are meaningless as you have omitted vital information, the exchange and cab number. From that we could find out what type of cab you are on and assess what your noise margin should be.

That said, your noise margin is slightly higher than any of the cabs should return, that combined with the restarts could indicate a line problem. As you can't test being on DV, just try reporting one, your line will be remotely tested and if a fault found automatically raise an engineer to conduct further taests and fix.

FYI. It is not unusual for one property to be on a different line to the rest as the site office line before any build is done is usually reallocted to a property when the build is complete and the site office closed.

[Cab7]

Trying to identify a fault on the phone to no avail. Told the line is fine after they run a test, which it will be most of the time,  yet the drops are still occurring. Also told I'd have to fork out for a engineer visit for a possible DLM reset.

Any suggestions? Cab 7 Ash btw.