In reply to a post by connormill:

Do you think if I move from my current ECI modem to a HG612 with G.INP I'd see an improvement in ping times?

(tempted to do it regardless of G.INP just for the line stats)

Don't know about ping times, but is your cabinet Huawei or ECI? Only Huawei cabinets have G.INP.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Don't know about ping times, but is your cabinet Huawei or ECI? Only Huawei cabinets have G.INP.

xdslcmd info --vendor

Look at "ChipSet Vendor Id". With the kit that Openreach uses, my understanding is that BDCM is Huawei, and IFTN is ECI.


There are people who can give a more definitive guidance from the bandplans produced by xdslcmd info --pbParams (the capital letter is important), but I'm not one of them.


I believe Openreach eventually plan to roll out G.INP to the ECI cabinets, but hardware limitations mean G.INP will only work in one direction. The Broadcom chipsets used in the Huawei line cards and HG612 modems support bidirectional G.INP.

In reply to a post by connormill:

In reply to a post by billford:

I don't know your Linksys router, but on some routers you can turn a band off if you don't need it- might be worth turning 2.4GHz off if you can (and nothing else is using it).

Might not make any difference (probably won't) but worth a try.

I do have that option. Annoyingly, however, a couple of devices I have are still 2.4 only.

And 2.4 is basically unusable here, the trouble is one of the devices is a phone with 16 months to go before it can be upgraded.

Suburban area here, fairly built up but we have major wifi issues and I tried almost everything! 2.4Ghz was no good at all, tried loads of 5Ghz channels, same result. I finally went for a 5Ghz channel in the 100s and it's now been stable for weeks. The wifi consistently works at my full sync speed which is 60Mb.