I need some help with my brother's router stats...

[jonathanen]

Hi everybody, my brother has set up the microfilter incorrectly, and the problem is, he's not sure which Sky Broadband package that he is on at the moment! I need your help, please.

I think, he is on Sky Broadband Max / Unlimited package also I think Sky has capped him because he has so much errors (noise) on his line, due to incorrect interior wiring / incorrect microfiler set up. So I recorded his detailed stats as follows - always using wireless connection:

ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
inet addr:90.205.12.130 P-t-P:82.108.11.97 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:116393 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:93339 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:110870546 (105.7 MiB) TX bytes:17962376 (17.1 MiB)
Uptime 5747.45 5555.00
Wan up 55.93 44.61
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 0
Channel: INTR, Upstream rate = 416 Kbps, Downstream rate = 2048 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: G.DMT
Channel: Interleave
Trellis: ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 32.4 14.0
Attn(dB): 29.0 19.5
Pwr(dBm): 17.1 0.8
Max(Kbps): 9856 1280
Rate (Kbps): 2048 416
G.dmt framing
K: 65(0) 14
R: 16 16
S: 2 16
D: 64 8
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 1 1
B: 65 14
M: 2 16
T: 1 1
R: 16 16
S: 2.2424 17.0666
L: 528 120
D: 64 8
Counters
SF: 336356 336300
SFErr: 0 0
RS: 11436136 1429275
RSCorr: 37 11
RSUnCorr: 0 0
HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 27619594 0
Data Cells: 2400565 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 21 0
AS: 5718
INP: 7.75 4.26
PER: 1.96 1.86
delay: 35.87 34.13
OR: 28.54 30.00
Bitswap: 0 0
Total time = 1 hours 35 min 47 sec
SF = 336356
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Latest 1 day time = 1 hours 35 min 47 sec
SF = 336356
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 5 min 47 sec
SF = 20414
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Previous 1 day time = 0 sec
SF = 0
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-30 min to -15 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-45 min to -30 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52982
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
15 minutes interval [-60 min to -45 min] time = 15 min 0 sec
SF = 52923
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Showtime Drop Reason: 0
Last Retrain Reason: 0
ChipSet Vendor Id: GSPN:0x 8
ChipSet VersionNumber: 0x 8
ChipSet SerialNumber:

So I set up the microfilter correctly for him and recorded another set of his detail stats:

ppp0 Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
inet addr:90.205.12.18 P-t-P:82.108.11.97 Mask:255.255.255.255
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING NOARP MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:5783 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5039 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:3
RX bytes:4351203 (4.1 MiB) TX bytes:1148612 (1.0 MiB)
Uptime 272.42 247.22
Wan up 104.16 92.19
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: ShowtimeRetrain Reason: 0
Channel: INTR, Upstream rate = 416 Kbps, Downstream rate = 2048 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: G.DMT
Channel: Interleave
Trellis: ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 32.5 13.0
Attn(dB): 29.0 19.0
Pwr(dBm): 17.2 0.8
Max(Kbps): 9952 1248
Rate (Kbps): 2048 416
G.dmt framing
K: 65(0) 14
R: 16 16
S: 2 16
D: 64 8
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 1 1
B: 65 14
M: 2 16
T: 1 1
R: 16 16
S: 2.2424 17.0666
L: 528 120
D: 64 8
Counters
SF: 11738 11739
SFErr: 0 0
RS: 399124 49389
RSCorr: 0 0
RSUnCorr: 0 0
HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 964169 0
Data Cells: 95131 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 39 0
AS: 199
INP: 7.75 4.26
PER: 1.96 1.86
delay: 35.87 34.13
OR: 28.54 30.00
Bitswap: 0 0
Total time = 4 min 31 sec
SF = 11738
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Latest 1 day time = 4 min 31 sec
SF = 11738
CRC = 0
LOS = 0
LOF = 0
ES = 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 4 min 31 sec
SF = 11738
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
ChipSet Vendor Id: GSPN:0x 8
ChipSet VersionNumber: 0x 8
ChipSet SerialNumber:

[Smithy99]

There seems to be little difference between the stats so I don't think DLM or Sky have capped him for a noisey line.

It looks like he is capped at 2mb, this may be because he is on Sky Base and that is the max speed on that package.

You need to find out what package he is on, if it is Mid or Max (everyday or Unlimited) then you should ring up and get the cap removed, if he is on base you could just upgrade.

[Isitme]

I agree with Smithy, it looks like he is on Base and capped at 2048kbps. There are no errors in either set of stats and the Max rate shown is the maximum for G.DMT. He would get 12-14 Mb on ADSL2+.