In reply to a post by Brookzy:

Cool. Telnet is fine!

Interestingly (to me, anyway haha) my Plusnet account updated today with notes written by the engineer who visited last week.

It's almost written in English...

Engineer Notes: Line confirmed working with mr brooks, eu in syc on arrival, failed pq faulty leadin plus eu star wired before nte poor fiber fit, coaching call to find what this product is as fttc in customer apts is on no paper work given to us only fttc 1 or 3, any bb issue now should be sfi? Eu in syc and web pages

Allow me to attempt a translation --

"The line was confirmed to be working with Mr Brookes. The modem was found to be in synchronism upon arrival. The circuit failed the pair quality test. There is a faulty lead-in cable, along with star wiring before the NTE5/A. A poor FTTC installation. I contacted my coach to determine what FTTC product this should be, as in the customer appointments paper work we are given it is only mentioned as FTTC 1 or 3. Should any subsequent Broadband issue now be raised as a SFI (special faults investigartion)? To recap, the end-user's modem is in synchronism with the DSLAM and web pages can be viewed with a browser."

I'm sure Zarjaz will correct any of my minor translation errors!

Edited by burakkucat (Wed 26-Feb-14 12:55:27)

Ah, much better. Thanks for the translation!

Huawei modem should be arriving today. Will try to unlock it later.

Here's the first batch of stats

# xdslcmd info --pbParams
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 15019 Kbps, Downstream rate = 57708 Kbps
Path: 0, Upstream rate = 15142 Kbps, Downstream rate = 58157 Kbps

Discovery Phase (Initial) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (868,1207) (1972,2783)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1963) (2792,3971)
Medley Phase (Final) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (868,1207) (1972,2783)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1963) (2792,3971)
VDSL Port Details Upstream Downstream
Attainable Net Data Rate: 15019 kbps 57708 kbps
Actual Aggregate Tx Power: 7.4 dBm 13.9 dBm
============================================================================
VDSL Band Status U0 U1 U2 U3 D1 D2 D3
Line Attenuation(dB): 5.5 25.4 37.4 N/A 14.2 31.2 46.9
Signal Attenuation(dB): 5.5 24.6 36.7 N/A 14.2 31.2 46.9
SNR Margin(dB): 5.6 5.7 5.7 N/A 5.9 5.9 5.9
TX Power(dBm): 0.6 -17.9 6.4 N/A 11.2 8.2 6.8

Because the forum removes excess spaces, the copy and pasted text has lost its formatting. Here is a screenshot straight from Telnet - the layout is a bit easier on the eyes!

I'm currently working on getting DSLstats or similar to run.

# xdslcmd info --pbParams
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 15019 Kbps, Downstream rate = 57708 Kbps
Path: 0, Upstream rate = 15142 Kbps, Downstream rate = 58157 Kbps

Discovery Phase (Initial) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (868,1207) (1972,2783)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1963) (2792,3971)
Medley Phase (Final) Band Plan
US: (0,95) (868,1207) (1972,2783)
DS: (32,859) (1216,1963) (2792,3971)

VDSL Port Details               Upstream          Downstream
Attainable Net Data Rate:      15019 kbps         57708 kbps
Actual Aggregate Tx Power:        7.4 dBm          13.9 dBm
============================================================================
  VDSL Band Status          U0        U1       U2       U3       D1      D2       D3
  Line Attenuation(dB):	 5.5	 25.4	 37.4 	  N/A	 14.2	 31.2	 46.9	
Signal Attenuation(dB):	 5.5	 24.6	 36.7	  N/A	 14.2	 31.2	 46.9	
        SNR Margin(dB):	 5.6	 5.7	 5.7	  N/A	 5.9	 5.9	 5.9	
         TX Power(dBm):	 0.6	-17.9	 6.4	  N/A	 11.2	 8.2	 6.8

Edited by RobertoS (Wed 26-Feb-14 17:47:05)

How you formatted it like that I'll never know, but well done

Can anyone interpret these numbers?

Engineer Notes: Line confirmed working with mr brooks, eu in syc on arrival, failed pq faulty leadin plus eu star wired before nte poor fiber fit, coaching call to find what this product is as fttc in customer apts is on no paper work given to us only fttc 1 or 3, any bb issue now should be sfi? Eu in syc and web pages

Unreal, so the engineer was on an FTTC fault, otherwise he'd not have tested for sync. To be fair though, he seemed to have sorted the obvious problems of the bridge tap and the poor terminations in the joint on the exterior wall.

SFI visits are only for ADSL. The equivalent would be an FTTC3 (Super Fast Visit Assured) or an FTTC Boost task.

Haha, I even asked him if he could tell me sync stats he was getting and he said no. Miserable git

Yeah, he did all those things, yet the line speed hasn't really increased since the install day...

Not pointing fingers, he did his job!

In reply to a post by Brookzy:

Here's the first batch of stats

If that's the HG612 then I think you have the older firmware as there is no U4 band. (Since its not using U3 either it won't affect anything). The newer firmware removes the web interface but telnet still works. The BTagent process will automatically update the firmware in a couple of weeks.

Use the word PRE in square brackets and then /PRE at the end to show preformatted text.

Here is mine as a comparison. MHC thinks my line is incorrectly stuck at 10Mbps upload, and comparing with yours I'm inclined to agree.

xdslcmd info --pbParams
xdslcmd: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason:	0
Last initialization procedure status:	0
Max:	Upstream rate = 9814 Kbps, Downstream rate = 59088 Kbps
Bearer:	0, Upstream rate = 9739 Kbps, Downstream rate = 53695 Kbps

Discovery Phase (Initial) Band Plan
US: (7,32) (871,1205) (1972,2782) 
DS: (33,859) (1216,1961) (2793,3970) 
Medley Phase (Final) Band Plan
US: (7,32) (871,1205) (1972,2558) 
DS: (33,859) (1216,1961) (2793,3758) 
	  VDSL Port Details		  Upstream		  Downstream
Attainable Net Data Rate:	     9814 kbps		    59088 kbps
Actual Aggregate Tx Power:	       6.5 dBm		     12.8 dBm
====================================================================================
  VDSL Band Status	U0	U1	U2	U3	U4	D1	D2	D3
  Line Attenuation(dB):	6.1	33.0	49.1	N/A	N/A	15.9	40.6	61.8
Signal Attenuation(dB):	6.1	32.4	47.5	N/A	N/A	17.5	40.3	61.9
        SNR Margin(dB):	6.4	6.4	6.4	N/A	N/A	5.4	5.4	5.4
         TX Power(dBm):	0.7	9.9	5.0	N/A	N/A	9.4	8.0	5.8

Edited by jchamier (Wed 26-Feb-14 20:09:42)

In reply to a post by Brookzy:

How you formatted it like that I'll never know, but well done

See jchamier's post. I did have to add in a few spaces to get the heading alignment right, but not in the figures in the body.

If you click the Quote button on my or his post, you can see the pre markup. The same with any other markup you see people use here.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

Here is mine as a comparison. MHC thinks my line is incorrectly stuck at 10Mbps upload, and comparing with yours I'm inclined to agree.

Interesting. That must be an ISP 40/10-style cap then as IP profiles for upload are always 20 mbps aren't they?

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

If you click the Quote button on my or his post, you can see the pre markup. The same with any other markup you see people use here.

Thanks for the tip!