What ARE 'Drop Cells' under Line Stats?

Hi guys,

Question - What are 'Drop Cells' under Line Stats?

Below is my connection info:

Down Up
SNR (dB): 14.2 23.0
Attn(dB): 13.0 10.0
Pwr(dBm): 19.8 11.9
Max(Kbps): 11488 1080
Rate (Kbps): 8128 448
G.dmt framing
K: 255(0) 15
R: 0 0
S: 1 1
D: 1 1
ADSL2 framing
MSGc: 1 1
B: 255 15
M: 1 1
T: 1 1
R: 0 0
S: 1.0000 1.0000
L: 2048 128
D: 1 1
Counters
SF: 97408 97407
SFErr(CRCErr): 0 0
RS: 0 0
RSCorr: 0 0
RSUnCorr: 0 0

HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 31744633 0
Data Cells: 1622262 0
Drop Cells: 5550
Bit Errors: 0 0


The 2nd one from the bottom - What do they indicate?

Cheers

A cell is referring to how the data is packaged up for transmission at the ATM layer.

So I'd presume a drop (or dropped) cell is one that fails to make it or arrives so corrupted it cannot be repaired.

The ATM link is the DSL link between your router/modem and the exchange equipment.

Further reading on ATM:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode

I recently had some work done to my line which has boosted my noise margin up and stopped (so far) CRC errors.

So how will this affect my performance (The Drop Cells)?

Edited by chris6273 (Thu 03-Feb-11 17:04:35)

At those levels - 5K in about 32 million - I wouldn't have thought they will be making any appreciable difference.

Okay

When I saw the errors I got a bit worried because I thought I eliminated all errors but your figures look good

Cheers for your help

A bit weird - It's still at 5550 and the connection has downloaded a ton of data with no errors still

Could this be a fixed variable?

That just means no more cells have been dropped. It's a good thing!

Hehe