Okay been up and running with this FTTC palava for a couple of weeks now.
Whilst the speeds are generally less than what was quoted by both OpenReach and Zen (typically 35mb download / 6.9mb upload), it's still around 40x faster than my original speeds of around 0.5mb
The TP-Link router was a dud, so been running with the ZyXel VMG1312-B10D, the wifi reach on it seems poor but its doing a job for the time-being.
I still feel that my line is a poor one though. Here's the stats from the Zyxel, i've read the guides and have a rough idea of what i'm looking at (apart from error things), but what i wouldn't mind an answer to (as i have no real benchmark) is that are these figures comparable to a 'decent' line and what sort of speeds would you expect?
VDSL Training Status: Showtime
Mode: VDSL2 Annex B
VDSL Profile: Profile 17a
Traffic Type: PTM Mode
Link Uptime: 5 days: 21 hours: 4 minutes
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VDSL Port Details Upstream Downstream
Line Rate: 8.597 Mbps 38.710 Mbps
Actual Net Data Rate: 8.573 Mbps 38.711 Mbps
Trellis Coding: ON ON
SNR Margin: 6.5 dB 2.9 dB
Actual Delay: 0 ms 0 ms
Transmit Power: 2.9 dBm 12.2 dBm
Receive Power: -19.1 dBm -19.1 dBm
Actual INP: 0.0 symbols 50.0 symbols
Total Attenuation: 22.0 dB 31.4 dB
Attainable Net Data Rate: 8.573 Mbps 33.091 Mbps
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VDSL Band Status U0 U1 U2 U3 D1 D2 D3
Line Attenuation(dB): 10.1 45.4 N/A N/A 19.2 53.0 79.3
Signal Attenuation(dB): 10.1 45.0 N/A N/A 29.5 52.8 N/A
SNR Margin(dB): 6.5 6.5 N/A N/A 2.9 3.0 N/A
Transmit Power(dBm):- 9.1 2.6 N/A N/A 10.3 7.8 N/A
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VDSL Counters
Downstream Upstream
Since Link time = 4 min 17 sec
FEC: 56424719 0
CRC: 94 1545
ES: 22 1304
SES: 0 48
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 5 min 59 sec
FEC: 67199 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: 175147 0
CRC: 0 4
ES: 0 4
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: N/A
Latest 1 day time = 4 hours 35 min 59 sec
FEC: 3266199 0
CRC: 0 99
ES: 0 61
SES: 0 2
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
FEC: 10315066 0
CRC: 12 369
ES: 4 277
SES: 0 41
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Retr: 0
Total time = 1 days 4 hours 35 min 59 sec
FEC: 145442805 3488
CRC: 2271 3130
ES: 74 2757
SES: 39 63
UAS: 293 254
LOS: 3 0
LOF: 20 0
LOM: 13 0
Retr: 3
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