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Something happened last night, I dropped sync at around 4:00AM and reconnected shortly after with my router reporting higher than usual attainable rates. Are BT doing something, or is this normal?
My router only ever shows an attainable rate slightly lower than my IP profile but as you can see from the pic below, both the down and upstream attainable rate have gone up a fair bit.
I'm not very good at interpreting line stats, so I don't know if my line quality is ok or not - my cab is about 300m away as the crow flies, but I didn't get the actual line length when FTTC was installed.
>>Router status page<<
>>BT Speedtest Results<<
I guess this could be an indication of what speed I can get when BT upgrade FTTC to the 80/20Mbps service?
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12dB margin so plenty of spare, hence the ability to get close to 60Meg if it was allowed, maybe more when the VDSL line profiles change.
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The attainable rate you see now is no indication of the speed you will get under profile 17a.
The attainable line speed you see now is the speed you would get under 8C if the line was not capped at 40.
This is my take on it.
My attainable rate has also increased (it was 52 when I first had infinity installed). My modem was faulty so they replaced it and my line card / port was reset, but the BT open-reach eng was told while so was on the phone to BT wholesale that cabs are receiving a firmware update, this may be a reason for better stats.
What router/modem are you using to get them nice looking stats?
BT Infinity
ROUTER:-Netgear WNDR37AV
JDSU Stats
Sync 39999D 9995U
Attenuation: 9.6 SNR: 8.9
Line Length 300meters
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Difficult to say why it has gone up but it may well be down to local conditions at the time of the resync ... There is additional atmospheric noise overnight which tends to push sync speeds down, but at 4AM there is very little locally generated noise - PCs, TVs, central heating, other users, washing machines, factories &c. Maybe it just resynced at a very low noise moment. Have you forced a resync since then? If so, what does it say?
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Ok thanks, that makes sense - the router is a Billion BiPAC 8200n.
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Yeah I suppose it could be any of those factors, the router regularly re-syncs so I'll wait until the next one rather than forcing it. The DLM has already hit me with interleaving 
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Have just gone back to the max attainable I had on connection ... 46.667 & 17.667 but my sync which was 39.996 has dropped to 36 and I cannot get it back up!
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My router only ever shows an attainable rate slightly lower than my IP profile Uh?
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My domains,website and mail hosting - Tsohost. Internet connection - IDNet Home Starter Fibre. Live BQM.
"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn.
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Somebofy on the BT forums with a Vigor 2750n has reported that their router ressynched today and went onto profile 17a.
They went from a synch of 35 meg sec to 40 and their obtainable rate shot up to 56 meg/sec from 35.
So looks like BT are putting people onto 17a in readyness for next year for the uncapping of the product.
If they do a few thousand a week then they can get ready and if something goes wrong they haven't screwed up all their customers in one go.
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I think all the Vigors report 17a. It appears to be a reporting error. There have been a few posts about it.
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yep reporting error.
The change in rate may be due to the firmware updates to the cabs.
BT Infinity
ROUTER:-Netgear WNDR37AV
JDSU Stats
Sync 39999D 9995U
Attenuation: 9.6 SNR: 8.9
Line Length 300meters
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Hehe well spotted
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Why "uh?"
I get that too (on upstream). Usually the attainable is the same or slightly less than the actual rate depending on if the SNR is 6 or just below 6.
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Why "uh?"
I get that too (on upstream). Usually the attainable is the same or slightly less than the actual rate depending on if the SNR is 6 or just below 6. Heh .
Try again. Read what is there, not what your brain automatically understood  .
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I did.
Upstream can be 9999/10000 on the modem and IP profile but the attainable can be lower if the SNR dips.
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Not quite sure what the 9999/10000 is for upstream, but I don't follow what you are saying, and would be interested in seeing some screen-shots.
You are saying that the IP Profile, which seems to be about 96.8% of sync and is always lower than the actual connection speed, can be higher than the attainable rate?
Which modem are you using anyway?
PS - I hadn't picked up that you were talking purely about the upstream. Does this also apply to the downstream? I believe we have already established the OP made a mistake/typo.
PPS - edit, sync and profile appear to = profile for upstream, so perhaps some mileage there.
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"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn.
Edited by RobertoS (Sat 08-Oct-11 19:01:12)
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the configured profile will be 10000k (it always is for me)
the modem will report connection as 9999 kbit/s
on occasion when the SNR upstream is sitting around 5.xdB the attainable rate will show as <9999 even though you are connected at 9999.
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Which modem/router are you using?
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk
My domains,website and mail hosting - Tsohost. Internet connection - IDNet Home Starter Fibre. Live BQM.
"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn.
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the normal openreach modem and the first infinity hub
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So you have hacked into the modem?
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk
My domains,website and mail hosting - Tsohost. Internet connection - IDNet Home Starter Fibre. Live BQM.
"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn.
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Isn't technically a hack but yes
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Mine switched from around 35k profile to 38716 sometime in last week.... throughput measuring at 37 mbps.
I've only had that before in the first week or so after install.
No idea if it's a profile change, just line conditions, a reset ... etc.
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17a sounds like its a power boost to the signal.
does this increase crosstalk as well? especially to adsl lines.
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17a uses more frequencies, so yes more power, but spread out over higher frequencies
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Yes, my attainable rate has jumped massively. I logged directly into the Echolife modem today and I have gone from 37000 max attainable to 58848 attainable . This is on the Bury St Edmunds Exchange.
Naturally my sync speed has jumped from 31.5mbps (when SNR was 6.1) to 39.9mbps (SNR now showing as 10.3) i.e. now connecting at full rate with plenty of SNR to spare.
I'm 600m from the CAB so they must have done something significant there I am guessing.
Edited by deleted (Tue 11-Oct-11 09:34:31)
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This makes me more inclined to get a look at my stats.
What method are you using?
My broadband basic info/help site - www.robertos.me.uk
My domains,website and mail hosting - Tsohost. Internet connection - IDNet Home Starter Fibre. Live BQM.
"Where talent is a dwarf, self-esteem is a giant." - Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn.
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I'm using the modified Echolife firmware and going directly into the standard openreach modem.
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Just a quick update, since I posted this on Friday I've been monitoring my stats. Over the past few weeks my router has been disconnecting almost daily but hasn't dropped once since.
The line has been very stable with some minimal variation in SNR margin and the errors on the line (of which I used to get a lot) have now been reduced to hardly anything. Observationally my throughput seems better too, although I've not really tried to measure it.
>>Updated Router status page<<
BT must have done something, as previous posters have mentioned a firmware update to the cabs seems likely. All I need now is for the DLM to realise my line quality has improved and turn the blasted interleaving off
Edited by Edge (Tue 11-Oct-11 10:37:55)
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