I signed up for iinet dsl2 a few days and just connected a few minutes ago for the first time, so decided to have a sus of their page.

It seems they now offer full speed (24Mb) dsl2+ for the same price (afaik) and will swap everyone on dsl2 over to dsl2+ for free. (they put me straight on 2+)

After being on bigpond cable for 5+ years I thought I'd test the speeds out, so I downloaded a 350Mb file off the iinet ftp and averaged 650k/s which is about what I averaged on BP cable.

Because this is my first experience with dsl and really have nfi what I'm doing or how it all works, I was wondering whether I'm likely to get any increase in speed once I actually put some filters on the 2 phone sockets in the house (currently I don't have any filters at all), or will it still go about the same speed with a more reliable/stable connection.
Currently I have the modem hooked into one wall socket with a really s***ty Crystelle cordless phone (uses 900mhz frequency)hooked into the modem in one of the 2 phone output things in it, and an equally s***ty Panasonic cordless phone (not sure on this ones frequency) plugged into the other wall socket upstairs.
This is the modem I bought since it seemed to have plenty of nifty looking features that might make the whole shamozzle (voip/dsl/normal phone use/etc.) a bit more user freindly, once I actually figure out how to set it all up properly.
Would it still be alright to use either, none, or both of these phones with the setup I have? or would I need to use the old non-cordless telstra touchfone 200s to get a faster or more reliable connection.

Any help would be appreciated.

You can answer your own question by unplugging all the phones and the trying. I would say filters aren't going to do s***.

Maybe if you got a diff modem i.e I hear 7402 Billions are the rage atm. MIGHT make a small difference. The only way ur going to get a better speed is if you more closer to the exchange.

yer, ive used a netcomm nb5 which worked ok until it kept dying

and am now on my second netgear dg834g

i wont be getting another one

i will be trying a billion

Usually there is a loss of 3-5dB from the pillar (node) to the premesis and an unfiltered phone (esp. s***ty quality cordless ones) can make a big diff in noise margin and especially in frequency of drops. Normally you wouldn't give a s*** if going from ADSL1 -> 2 because only the compression method changes and not the band, unlike 2+ which doubles the potential range, so a few db here and there ESP. in relation to dropouts are going to make a marked improvement. Do what dodgeymon says and take the phones off for a test, throw on the 2+ profile in toolbox and see how u go.

Hey mate, great post full of details. You are trying to help us help yourself. The first reply was correct if you want to test if you will get a boost from speed (although it wont be huge you may very well get a boost, its measuring this boost that will be hard since you will need a server which gives you a consistant download stream each time - which is hard to find but try late night where australian inet isnt so congested like 10pm-2am)

Basicly anything thats stops signal noise (eg line filter) will give your adsl modem a boost in performance, though not necessarily in terms of kB/s more so latency and things that cannot be measured well by you yourself as an end user

For starters the 900mhz phones and the panasonic are notorious for causing dropouts with dsl plus lowered sync speeds get rid of it sell it throw it the bin.

Secondly get a firmware update for you modem, and can you post you line attenuation and signal to noise ratio from you modems diagnostic page?

Longer extension cables give you less speed keep it short as possible, make sure you buy decent line filters C-10 comunication ones are the best ive found, if you have foxtel digital and a back to base alarm you might need a central spliter, make sure all phone devices are filtered also.

That modem should have a PSTN fallback conection on it so plug your phone into it, disconect any other phones from sockets if they are unfiltered will only give you drop outs and low sync speeds.



last edited by 0z at 12:43:35 19/Dec/05

yer spook our nb5 crapped out bigtime. firmware upgrade disaster and all that.

just ordered a billion 7402VGP from warcom.com.au for $225 - cheapest price according to staticice.com.au

$11 shipping.

here if u want.

24000 gimme gimme gimme.