Level of the DSL pilot tone?

Hello Folks,

After two frustrating hours on the phone with my ISP, dodging their excuses and their "Oh, it's got to be this other problem" I want to be able to diagnose some DSL stuff for myself. IOW measure DSL signal levels versus noise. AFAIK there is a pilot tone at 276kHz or sometimes 138kHz for downstream and another one at 69kHz for upstream.

Question: What are the min-max levels for those pilot tones?

Reason why I want to be able do that is the extreme wait on the phone when something happens, questionable competence of support personnel, and their tendency to offload a problem to their HW service. "Oh, it's got to be your line" and then they try to make you pay. I know for sure that my current email receiving issues are not telco HW related but it sure would be nice to tell them "Hey, I measured these dBV levels for the pilot tones so it can't be".

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Regards, Joerg

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