Promised speeds were 58 down/20 up on 80/20 service. I expected around 68 to 72meg considering distance to cab.

Ethernet only, BTSpeedtest after tweaks IP43meg
Throughput usually 39 to 41 meg.
WIN7 Firefox13 and Waterfox

Initially the map fault looked like a network to the exchange, hence poor routing and pages timing out.

I know theres aluminium cable to the cab at least 28 yrs old. There are spare copper available.

I know it dont count but so far never seen above 25/26meg download on speedtest.net. Used to attain 37.45meg rarely dropping below 32meg with another provider or sub 8meg.

Monday BT said line is fine i have a good connection, the 80/20 is offered to lift the 40meg cap. In other words tough, lump it.
I can understand it if i was 800 yards or more away.
Tried watching itv player the other day, it was ok didnt download an incresing buffer but not even HD.

No joke, that took close on 1 minute to post.

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Apologies if I haven't read the instruction guide carefully (only skim read it so far), but can you backup the original firmware that came with the modem?

I noticed that the zip file that I downloaded also has the original firmware, but would all version of the Huawei modems ship with the same one?

The modems say what version of firmware they have on the back but the early SP06 ones should all have been replaced by now. You should be OK loading the SP10 firmware in any case.

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but the early SP06 ones should all have been replaced by now.

Nope... but as it ain't broke I'm not going to remind anybody to fix it

Thanks, the modem had a long string of numbers followed by SP10, so you were right.

Anyway I have managed to unlock the modem, wasn't difficult in the end. I didn't really know what commands to use in telnet, but through some trial and error, I've managed to get the following:

xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 26873 Kbps, Downstream rate = 87712 Kbps
Path: 0, Upstream rate = 20000 Kbps, Downstream rate = 79999 Kbps

Discovery Phase (Initial) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (868,1207) (1972,2783)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1963) (2792,3959)

Medley Phase (Final) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (868,1207) (1972,2783)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1963) (2792,3959)

VDSL Port Details Upstream Downstream
Attainable Net Data Rate: 26873 kbps 87712 kbps
Actual Aggregate Tx Power: 6.8 dBm 12.5 dBm
============================================================================
VDSL Band Status U0 U1 U2 U3 D1 D2 D3
Line Attenuation(dB): 4.4 22.8 34.1 N/A 11.6 28.1 43.7

Signal Attenuation(dB): 7.1 22.1 33.2 N/A 11.6 28.1 43.7

SNR Margin(dB): 15.1 15.1 15.1 N/A 8.0 8.0 8.3

TX Power(dBm): -4.1 -20.5 6.4 N/A 8.3 7.8 7.0

I noticed that some people have got some fancy graphs going. Not sure how to do that yet. From a quick look at the above stats, it seems there is some small leeway for further increases in downstream speeds and slightly more so on the upstream side.

I think the line is interleaved, when checking the web interface (FEC errors) but I think i read somewhere that I shouldn't be relying on the stats from the web interface is that correct?

Pings don't seem to be better on fibre from what i can see. Infact they were better when I was with BE! Maybe its a BT thing.

In reply to a post by Icemansin:

I think the line is interleaved, when checking the web interface (FEC errors) but I think i read somewhere that I shouldn't be relying on the stats from the web interface is that correct?

Your stats look good & you are in sync at the capped speeds of 80/20, so you won't get any increase until BT decide to increase the speed limits some time in the future.

Yes, the modem's GUI isn't to be relied on for acurate error reporting.
if you run xdslcmd info --stats, that will tell you all about various error types (& all the other relevant data).

Interleaving is shown as the D: values, a level of 1 being OFF.
Usually when interleaving is ON, INP: & delay: will be non-zero values too.

Thanks for the info Bald_Eagle

Do you know how to generate those graphs that people link to? I would like to get as much info on my line while it's in a good state, so that I can use it a reference point if my connection deteriorates at some point in the future.

In reply to a post by Icemansin:

Do you know how to generate those graphs that people link to? I would like to get as much info on my line while it's in a good state, so that I can use it a reference point if my connection deteriorates at some point in the future.

Yes. I wrote the scripts

Firstly download the scripts from the first link in the first post here:-

Graphing Scripts Message

Read through the instructions so that you will know what to expect, but they are really easy to set up & use.

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In reply to a post by Icemansin:

Do you know how to generate those graphs that people link to? I would like to get as much info on my line while it's in a good state, so that I can use it a reference point if my connection deteriorates at some point in the future.

Yes. I wrote the scripts

Firstly download the scripts from the first link in the first post here:-

Graphing Scripts Message

Read through the instructions so that you will know what to expect, but they are really easy to set up & use.

Yup that was why I was asking you

I have had a quick read through the instructions and it seems simple enough. Will try it when I get home, but I assume I will need to ensure that I need to connect my PC to the LAN2 port on the modem and to make the relevant IP address changes as well (as was required to do to unlock the modem initially)? If that's the case I wont be able to use the Internet whilst the graphs are being generated unless I've got this wrong.

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In reply to a post by Bald_Eagle1:

In reply to a post by Icemansin:

Do you know how to generate those graphs that people link to? I would like to get as much info on my line while it's in a good state, so that I can use it a reference point if my connection deteriorates at some point in the future.

Yes. I wrote the scripts

Firstly download the scripts from the first link in the first post here:-

Graphing Scripts Message

Read through the instructions so that you will know what to expect, but they are really easy to set up & use.

Yup that was why I was asking you

I have had a quick read through the instructions and it seems simple enough. Will try it when I get home, but I assume I will need to ensure that I need to connect my PC to the LAN2 port on the modem and to make the relevant IP address changes as well (as was required to do to unlock the modem initially)? If that's the case I wont be able to use the Internet whilst the graphs are being generated unless I've got this wrong.

From now on you simply need to connect LAN2 from the modem to the router and get the stats by going to the address that is allocated to the Huwai (192.168.1.1 by default?).

It is still acting as a modem on LAN1 but LAN2 lets you in from anywhere on the local network to get the stats. The direct connection to LAN2 is only required for the unlocking procedure.

You will have to ensure that there is no IP address clash when connecting LAN2 to the router - you can change the address of the LAN2 from the GUI to do this.