Patent ID: 7272209

Claim:
An automated method of adjusting digital subscriber line (DSL) performance, the method comprising: evaluating a performance of each of a plurality of DSL lines using a computer based system; automatically selecting a set of DSL lines from the plurality of DSL lines, the set of DSL lines having degraded performance characteristics based on historical performance data accessible with respect to the computer based system; retrieving a plurality of line profiles from a profile database; measuring a performance parameter for each of the set of DSL lines; removing from the set of DSL lines any DSL lines that have suitable performance based on the measured performance parameter to create a revised set of DSL lines with degraded performance, wherein each DSL line in the revised set of DSL lines is associated with a corresponding physical DSL line; and applying one of the plurality of line profiles to each of the physical DSL lines identified by the revised set of DSL lines.