[Craig Ball]

Thanks, I looked in the overview tab on the mobile app and it’s not obvious to me the type of exchange. I did however discover a website that identifies the cabinet by landline number and it says it is an ‘ECI’?

Think I’ll head out to Argos and buy myself a cheap corded phone to test the line for noise.

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Morning, thanks for the help. The faceplate is a Mk4, it was installed by Openreach 2 years ago in efforts to reach the minimum speed guarantee, but still fell just short. The 7530 plugs straight into it with 8 metres of  quality (solid core/twisted pair) cable.

The line speed increased slightly overnight to 50Mbit/s, I guess that’s DLM still settling.

I don’t recall the router updating recently and it seems to indicate being up to date.

Should I be looking for the downstream SNR going from 7 towards 3 for an improvement? I think this is where I am getting confused.

Thanks

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Thanks Grisu, that’s what I feared. Prior to this I was getting a stable 54.5Mbit/s (a whisker below the Vodafone minimum speed guarantee). Our internet gets hammered throughout the day with us both working from home, driving CAD applications on Remote Desktop and constant Skype calls; it never skipped a beat in the 7 months since I got the Fritzbox. The weather turned on Thursday and that’s when it started to go pear shaped.

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….here’s the rest of the screenshot

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Hi, yeah just got these from the GUI on my laptop…..

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Hi UK Sentinel, here’s a screen dump of the stats. It doesn’t show anything prior to Friday am reboot. Please let me know if any other screenshots will help. Many thanks.

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Thanks all for your help. I set it up tonight without any difficulty. I manually configured the Vodafone username, password and vlan and it connected on 1st attempt. WiFi range seems better than the Vodafone THG3000 and I have a Fritz 3000 repeater being delivered tomorrow. Cant quite get my head around the auto band selection as according to the GUI all devices seem to have defaulted to the 2.4GHz. The only evidence of Zen on the router was the option to configure for Zen or ‘other’ in the connection settings. Not updated the OS or firmware yet but so far it’s gone much better than I expected. Thanks again for your help.

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Thanks U.K. Sentinal and Grisu for your advice, it’s very kind. I am just exploring now, I’ll let you know how I get on.

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The Zen Fritz!box arrived but I have to admit all the discussion about deleting TR-069 and telnetting is a bit beyond me. Can I remote into the box and configure the username etc before plugging in the RJ11 and connecting to the Vodafone network? We are all working/schooling from home at the moment so for the sake of my marriage I may wait for the weekend before fumbling around with this.

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Yes I will do. It should arrive Tuesday so will let you know. Thank you

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Perfect, thanks for the comprehensive replies. I am on Vodafone Superfast 2, sync speed is showing as 53.4. From reading the zen guides, the router is configured ready to go. I will follow the above steps and hope for the best. Thank you

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