Im in a former Qwest area and am currently provisioned at 1536/896 kilobits/second. All attempts to get CenturyLink to tell me when the VDSL2 that the other side of town has will show up have been unsuccessful. In addition, I tried for bonded with the business group and while they knew what it was, were unable to sell it to me because the DSLAM had no room for it.
So, while rooting around online, I found one of those distance calculators. My current modem has a line attenuation of 19.0 dB (on my main modem, a NetGear DGN D3700v2). My Qwest Q1000 also reports SNR as 39/13, Attenuation as 19/12, and power as 5/12.7. The calculator said that I might be able to get like 8 megs on ADSL, if everything else was optimal.
So I took a look at the Q1000 and found out how to this:
> xdslctl info --state
xdslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Last Retrain Reason: 0
Last initialization procedure status: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 1276 Kbps, Downstream rate = 12160 Kbps
Channel: INTR, Upstream rate = 896 Kbps, Downstream rate = 1536 Kbps
Is there some strategy to use when asking them to provision you at a higher rate, or re-testing your line to qualify you for a higher speed? I would be really happy if I could get 7m/896k provisioned. It would completely make my year if I could get 10/1, and if by some winter miracle they could or would provision or qualify my line for the whole speed their modem thinks it is capable of, Id be completely over the moon.
Thank you in advance for any information!
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