Sky to perform a spot of ADSL line management on some 300,000 lines

[Monday]

The DLM has just reduced it by 2, nothing major.

[nadeem]

As long as the speed goes back to 3mbit w/ 786k i'm happy, otherwise i'll be on their case.

Oh connection has further reduced down to 1500 256,

What's going on?

[iangilf]

can u post ur router stats lets take a look at wht u got now

[nadeem]

Here the stats;

After 8 hrs decided to give the router a restart, speeds have gone up as they we're in the morning.
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 0
Channel: FAST, Upstream rate = 396 Kbps, Downstream rate = 2048 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: ADSL2
Channel: Fast
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 7.1 10.0
Attn(dB): 67.5 43.4
Pwr(dBm): 0.0 12.8
Max(Kbps): 3112 496
Rate (Kbps): 2048 396
G.dmt framing
K: 65(0) 13
R: 16 16
S: 1 8
D: 64 8
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 59 68
B: 64 12
M: 1 8
T: 1 1
R: 16 16
S: 1.0000 7.7419
L: 648 124
D: 64 8
Counters
SF: 11541 11031
SFErr: 0 1
RS: 750176 96768
RSCorr: 140 0
RSUnCorr: 0 0

HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 905226 175386
Data Cells: 38585 8432
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 0 1
SES: 0 0
UAS: 14 21
AS: 188

INP: 6.32 4.12
PER: 16.25 17.90
delay: 16.00 15.48
OR: 32.00 33.06

Bitswap: 1 5

Total time = 3 min 33 sec
SF = 11541
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Latest 1 day time = 3 min 33 sec
SF = 11541
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 3 min 33 sec
SF = 11541
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 0 sec
SF = 0
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 1 day time = 0 sec
SF = 0
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Showtime Drop Reason: 0
Last Retrain Reason: 0

[iangilf]

Mode: ADSL2 is ur problem it should state adsl2+ and yeah the upload speed is shoddy i would contact sky and ask them what they are playing at

but saying that i see u are far from the exchange Attn(dB): 67.5 43.4

so maybe why but u could always ask them to put u on adsl2+ and see if ur upload increases and see how u get on with that mode

good luck

[NewsreadeR]

so maybe why but u could always ask them to put u on adsl2+

With an attenuation of 67.5 you will have absolutely no chance of being put on ADSL2+ The odds of England winning Euro 2008 are less.

The attenuation is basically your line length from the exchange. I would hazard a guess and say about 2mb is the best you would ever expect to receive. This is what DLM should sort out, lines exactly like yours.

[nadeem]

True,

Though since sky capped my speed to 3mb, its been very stable throughout the days.

I'm about 4km away from exchange or 3.46km straight line.

I'll leave the router alone and see how things go.

:-)

[gott_sei_dank]

Wow somebody with a worse line attenuation than me, it looks like we could be in the same boat, Max package with high line attenuation = DLM, is that how they work out who has a poor line.

On a related note if you line is being DLM is your IP address sticky, usually Xbox Live is quick to tell you when you disconnect but at times it seems that the WAN uptime has reset but Xbox live thinks I'm still connected.

[NewsreadeR]

If your line is stable, I would accept that, although you maybe not that far from the exchange, your attenuation tells us that your line is. (It's not as the crow flies so to speak)

The most you would get on that attenuation is between 2 to 3mb and wouldn't be guaranteed to be fault free I guess.

[nadeem]

What are the chances of BT replacing my line, in order to increase the quality?