Depends what time of day he connected. 6.3dB is perfectly consistent with the tweak he claims if he did it outside daylight hours and took the stats in daylight.

I wonder! I never see more than 0.5 dB variation between day & night.

And I always had 3.5dB variation.

Cue a discussion of the settings normally available and why any above 6dB are necessary .

In reply to a post by willsweet2:

I was generalizing and simplifying with the theory that torrents are usually used for illegal means.

Edit: He didn't mention the contract, but I suppose he probably does have one

But there is nothing illegal about a torrent or P2P, the media use words such as illegal just to hype things up, TalkTalk throttle P2P not because of if it be illegal or not , but to save resources on their network,nothing else

Edited by tommy45 (Sat 03-Mar-12 15:45:44)

I took the stats just before posting them to this thread so around 10:30am this morning.

Here are my stats as of the time I took them, 19:30pm as reported by DMT.

Down Up
G.dmt framing
--stats
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Retrain Reason: 8000
Max: Upstream rate = 1278 Kbps, Downstream rate = 25816 Kbps
Path: 0, Upstream rate = 1287 Kbps, Downstream rate = 21060 Kbps

Link Power State: L0
Mode: ADSL2+
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 6.2 7.7
Attn(dB): 10.0 2.8
Pwr(dBm): 18.1 12.1

ADSL2 framing

MSGc: 59 16
B: 54 36
M: 1 1
T: 11 3
R: 8 0
S: 0.0902 0.9866
L: 5585 300
D: 352 1

Counters

SF: 2226275 144660
SFErr: 0 42
RS: 1591787224 0
RSCorr: 835 0
RSUnCorr: 0 0

HEC: 0 22
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 1783675695 688911244
Data Cells: 679548 9652707
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 258429

ES: 0 24
SES: 0 0
UAS: 34 34
AS: 35910

INP: 2.01 0.00
PER: 16.13 16.28
delay: 7.94 0.24
OR: 32.23 10.81

Bitswap: 864 2

I will reverse the tweak and post the stats so that you can look at what's going on without any modifications having been made

It's stats taken immediately after a reconnection, preferably done during daylight hours, with no tweaking, that are needed. The current problem is you said you had tweaked to 3.6/3.8dB, yet you are showing over 6dB.

So we can't tell anything from that except either you haven't tweaked the SNR, or something is odd.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

It's stats taken immediately after a reconnection, preferably done during daylight hours, with no tweaking, that are needed. The current problem is you said you had tweaked to 3.6/3.8dB, yet you are showing over 6dB.

So we can't tell anything from that except either you haven't tweaked the SNR, or something is odd.

Odd :-/ I tweaked the SNR with DMT and rebooted/resynced for changes to take effect. Anyhow here are my stats following a resync during daylight hours and without tweaks.

Statistics -- xDSL

Mode: ADSL_2plus
Traffic Type: ATM
Status: Up
Link Power State: L0

Downstream Upstream
Line Coding(Trellis): On On
SNR Margin (0.1 dB): 63 75
Attenuation (0.1 dB): 100 24
Output Power (0.1 dBm): 181 122
Attainable Rate (Kbps): 25820 1291

Path 0 Path 1
Downstream Upstream Downstream Upstream
Rate (Kbps): 21009 1308 0 0

MSGc (# of bytes in overhead channel message): 59 16 0 0
B (# of bytes in Mux Data Frame): 66 37 0 0
M (# of Mux Data Frames in FEC Data Frame): 1 1 0 0
T (Mux Data Frames over sync bytes): 9 3 0 0
R (# of check bytes in FEC Data Frame): 10 0 0 0
S (ratio of FEC over PMD Data Frame length): 0.1101 0.9967 0.0 0.0
L (# of bits in PMD Data Frame): 5590 305 0 0
D (interleaver depth): 288 1 0 0
Delay (msec): 7.93 0.24 0.0 0.0
INP (DMT symbol): 2.6 0.0 0.0 0.0

Super Frames: 46240 45304 0 0
Super Frame Errors: 0 0 0 0
RS Words: 27050548 0 0 0
RS Correctable Errors: 0 0 0 0
RS Uncorrectable Errors: 0 0 0 0

HEC Errors: 0 0 0 0
OCD Errors: 0 0 0 0
LCD Errors: 0 0 0 0
Total Cells: 36927604 909040442 0 0
Data Cells: 770636 28081777 0 0
Bit Errors: 0 258788 0 0

Total ES: 0 0
Total SES: 0 0
Total UAS: 30 30

Are you changing routers sometimes as well? The layout changes.

Edit - the middle lot are taken from a DMT stats listing.

Edited by RobertoS (Sun 04-Mar-12 19:21:27)

Switching between router measuring 0.1 dBs and one in just dBs (Netgear?)

All readings show:

Attainable Rate: 25.8 Meg
Actual rate: 21.0 Meg
Attenuation: 10 dB
SNR Margin: 6 dB

None look tweaked or it's not taking effect.

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

Are you changing routers sometimes as well? The layout changes.

Edit - the middle lot are taken from a DMT stats listing.

No, stats are taken from the same router.