Thanks mate!

Some of those stats, as others have said, are a little odd.

0.1dB attenuation for example is way to low. I wonder if the downstream power has lost the tens digit and when it compares Tx power and Rx power levels it sees 0.1 whereas it could be 10.7dB? And maybe the same on upstream - the received power is loosing a digit.

At 500m by road - add in distances between old and new cabinet, distance up pole, additional length due to catenary in drop wire, a couple of cable loops and your internal and you may get towards 550 m. Mine is 440m and even though I cannot see stats, I know my line could sync at around 47Mb (from the technicians test device) - my actual sync is 38717kbps with throughputs of 36000 or above. Your sync does look lower than I would have expected.

You mention problems initially - what sort of problems did you have?

Edited by MHC (Mon 31-Jan-11 14:27:47)

it is indeed interesting reading, thanks for posting it.

there's a Zyxel VDSL router on sale too, though one vendor is currently out of stock

hopefully its GUI provides more info or has less bugs !

In reply to a post by vdsl_steve:

>Can you get details of the attenuation at the different freqencies?
>
No facility for that on this router sadly.

Are you saying you've tried the normal CLI commands, like: xdsl debug bitloadinginfo
and they don't work?

Given usage tracking appears wrong, the router web interface may have other bugs.

Batboy has just pointed out a CLI for the device.
I'll try to post more stats shortly.

Had various problems...

Firsty a provisioning problem from ISP to BT, that caused a setup delay.
Then a BT backhaul problem that cut me off for a weekend.
Then a failed VDSL port in the street cabinet.
Then a subsequent 11meg connection for 5 weeks. I got told to leave the system alone while it was learning - i.e. no modem reboots etc.
A loss of patience, followed by a power cycle of the Huawei BT modem got it back to 17 megs.
Replacing with the Thomson got me almost 20 megs and the line stats you see now.

Previous to that I've had:
An open circuit on one of the wires in the pair to my house.

The exchange has had a roof leak which rained on the racks in the exchange. Once my line fuse had turned green and gone open circuit, BT replaced it.

We've even had the pikeys steal 2km of trunk cable from the exchange to the street cab using a pickup and a tow ball.

We've had it all round here

Steve

Can you see if you can get the basic stats to start with and see if they match those on the GUI. One old Thomson/Speedtouch that I had, reported differently through GUI and CLI !

Nice one BatBoy,

I didn't realise that this router had a CLI.
Let me know if there are any other useful things to be gleaned from the CLI.

Here is the 'bitloadinginfo'

Tone : # Bits per tone
0 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 6 7
10 : 8 9 10 11 11 11 11 11 11 11
20 : 12 12 12 12 12 12 11 11 11 11
30 : 11 11 10 9 9 9 9 9 9 7
40 : 9 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 9 9
50 : 9 9 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
60 : 8 8 8 8 7 7 6 7 7 8
70 : 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7
80 : 7 7 7 6 7 6 6 6 6 6
90 : 6 5 5 5 4 3 3 0 0 3
100 : 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
110 : 4 4 2 4 1 3 2 2 0 2
120 : 2 1 3 2 1 0 1 1 0 0
130 : 0 1 2 1 2 0 2 1 2 2
140 : 2 1 2 1 1 0 0 0 1 1
150 : 1 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 0 0
160 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
170 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
180 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
190 : 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 2 1
200 : 0 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 0 1
210 : 0 0 0 0 0 2 2 1 1 0
220 : 0 0 1 2 4 5 5 6 7 8
230 : 8 7 9 9 9 7 9 9 10 11
240 : 11 11 10 10 10 10 10 8 7 4
250 : 2 7 7 8 3 9