Nice to know that and I have seen it connect before at 79/19 so I know I can get a bit more out of it but will leave things well alone and see how it goes.

Doing a few speed tests and found a server which gives me 60 down 17 up all the time so hopefully that will stay static.

No idea how the other guy did that and the guy who came earlier didn't know how he managed it either and without a doubt the previous guy definitely lied through his teeth about testing everything and it was all working!

Seen some of it at both our locations, but good it's sorted at last. Got to wait until the 12th for next engineer here, but not holding breath for a fix. line down south regraded today, so hoping all OK this time next week when there. Have phoned in and checked number working OK, something that I was told from some would be lost.

Hopefully the engineer will turn up and fix the problem(s) unlike the last no show you had and many thanks for the help and advice as well

Sometimes problems turn up nice friendly conversations. Hope it all runs smoothly for you now.

Well so far so good my sync speed has gone down due to the D7000 rebooting itself whilst I was out 68mb down to 63mb but as my line definitely supports 76mb I am hopefully it will go back up given time.

However the main thing is it's 58/60mb down and 18up pretty much 24/7 which is exactly what I wanted rather than 'you get 100mbit but only when you sleep on VM'.

Fingers crossed for you tomorrow as well with the engineer visit.

Regrading my Pulse8 ADSL2 to FTTC , hoping to "bond" it with my plusnet if I can get Multipath routing working correctly over tunnels (GRE, probably)

Do you have to pay 2 sets of line rental to do that?

In reply to a post by durkasmurk:

Do you have to pay 2 sets of line rental to do that?

2 Sets of line rental, 2 broadband connections, A dedicated server or co-location with a 1Gbit/s uplink. Static IP's on both connections (Well that could probably be worked around, but it's easier in my case as I'm using GRE tunnels)

I'm still not even sure the routers I have will actually be able to handle it, I've managed 400Mbit/s raw GRE throughput through an ER-X when testing on the bench but that was without asking it to do PPPoE and firewall/nat on top. It wouldn't surprise me if I need to offload the PPPoE to another device.

I've managed to "bond" the connections using a L3 Multipath approach however the split has to be even (I.e 50/50 to each line) to do that.

It also helps at the moment that edgeOS isn't doing ECMP as far as I can tell (So it literally just puts packet1 line1 packet 2 line2.etc instead of doing it based on the flows). I'm not doing it at the moment as whilst it was successful in testing until the upgrade of my 2nd line to FTTC happens it would actually slow down my connection (Because the ADSL line is only 10Mbit/s).

In theory I think I could "bond" un-even lines using a slightly different approach but utilising the mangle feature of IPTABLES and nTH packet based marking, the problem with that alternate approach is it's really CPU heavy on the routers/firewalls which means I'm pretty sure the current kit I've got lacks the grunt to actually do it.

It's a lot easier to simply find an ISP that offers line bonding and pay them, it's just I already had a pulse8 ADSL connection as a backup for my FTTC line and also had a server in co-lo with sufficient (in theory) bandwidth to pull it off. That and It's one of those things that I thought I'd do to see if it works, more as a learning experience than anything else.

Whilst moving it to FTTC reduces the redundancy somewhat I figured hell why not i've always got 4G if the cab dies and now i'll actually use that circuit rather than pay for it and have it sitting Idle.

Anyone once the 2nd line gets upgraded to FTTC and I get the balancing/bonding working I'll post a speedtest result and we'll see if the routers can actually manage 120Mbit/s +

Got DSL stats running on my D7000 and getting a high?? FEC/ES count so wondering if anyone can take a look at these stats and let me know what they think?

adslctl info --stats
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Last Retrain Reason: 0
Last initialization procedure status: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 18897 Kbps, Downstream rate = 74863 Kbps
Bearer: 0, Upstream rate = 18756 Kbps, Downstream rate = 62691 Kbps

Link Power State: L0
Mode: VDSL2 Annex B
VDSL2 Profile: Profile 17a
TPS-TC: PTM Mode(0x0)
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 6.3 6.1
Attn(dB): 18.1 0.0
Pwr(dBm): 13.8 6.8

VDSL2 framing
Bearer 0
MSGc: 18 13
B: 51 238
M: 1 1
T: 64 62
R: 12 16
S: 0.0264 0.4056
L: 19400 5029
D: 1227 1
I: 64 255
N: 64 255

Counters
Bearer 0
OHF: 85480655 1706901
OHFErr: 137 34
RS: 408061569 3237145
RSCorr: 6065151 351
RSUnCorr: 6470 0

Bearer 0
HEC: 1547 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 295005324 0
Data Cells: 157810136 0
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0

ES: 30 34
SES: 0 0
UAS: 28 28
AS: 144946

Bearer 0
INP: 3.00 0.00
INPRein: 0.00 0.00
delay: 8 0
PER: 1.69 6.31
OR: 113.22 24.08
AgR: 62804.66 18780.45

Bitswap: 7406/7876 14/14

Total time = 1 days 16 hours 16 min 14 sec
FEC: 6065151 351
CRC: 137 34
ES: 30 34
SES: 0 0
UAS: 28 28
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 1 min 14 sec
FEC: 269 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
FEC: 13092 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: N/A
Latest 1 day time = 16 hours 16 min 14 sec
FEC: 2196991 167
CRC: 79 15
ES: 16 15
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
FEC: 3868160 184
CRC: 58 19
ES: 14 19
SES: 0 0
UAS: 28 28
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
Since Link time = 1 days 16 hours 15 min 45 sec
FEC: 6065151 351
CRC: 137 34
ES: 30 34
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
NTR: mipsCntAtNtr=0 ncoCntAtNtr=0
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Doesn't look like you have G.INP active.