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[Wirezfree]

So after 29hrs 15 mins of up-time,
seems stable at the moment, periodic speed tests pretty consistent, I will be happy if it stays like this....
BTW, between 0.5/0.6miles or 850/950mtrs by road from cab.

[NewtronStar]

Looking at the attenuation for this circuit it's looking less than a 950 meter line more like 850 meters to the PCP cabinet though have had two OR engineers test this line with a JDSU one says 1km and the last test in January 2017 shows it to be 962 meters 

Just a heads up the BrightBox2 always shows as being on fastpath even when your interleaved or with G.INP a bug that seems has never been fixed.

[Wirezfree]

@ NewtronStar,

Seems O.K, sync rate up and getting pretty consistent 45/46Mbps Down & 10Mbps Up

[burakkucat]

That's looking quite reasonable. 

From your achieved throughput speeds, I assume your service is based on the Openreach 55/10 Mbps DS/US product.

[NewtronStar]

It's ok apart from the errored seconds of 23620 Downstream ES, again the BB2 has another flaw it shows the downstream ES as Upstream ES and vice versa something is going to happen tomorrow 

[burakkucat]

It's ok apart from the errored seconds of 23620 Downstream ES,

Do we actually know over what time-frame those errors have accumulated? And is that counter reset to zero upon a link re-train or does that only happen with a power-cycle? (I can't remember if that is another BB2 quirk, so I will defer to your knowledge and understanding of the device.    )

[NewtronStar]

The counters will reset to zero after a re-sync or retrain on the BB2 if used as a all in one unit modem and router that I can confirm if used as a router (bridged) then all stats show as zero or empty with a dash -

[burakkucat]

Thank you.

[Wirezfree]

I know it's old... but thought I would just update this.
Not sure what/when/how..?? My speeds gone up.
Was getting pretty consistent 43/44D & 10U

Checking over the last few days... I'm getting:

[re0]

It is indeed old, but I cannot see that anyone will mind.

Quite a nice increase there, though I would like to see some stats from your router because of the potential oddities with BTW speed tester.

If the sync speed has increased, could be one or a combination of different things. The DLM may have lowered the SNR, removed banding (if applicable) or perhaps your modem resync'd after a power cut (so less interference ). Though if it is the latter as opposed to the DLM making changes to your parameters, then you will probably lose it after another resync. So let's see those stats!

[jaydub]

As re0 has intimated, the BTW Tester is notoriously inconsistent.  You are better off using the ThinkBroadBand speed test or even the Ookla one at Speedtest.net

[tiffy]

I have found the BTw Performance Tester to be quite consistant recently provided Firefox Browser is not used which is a known issue and will give huge speed errors.
Although I still like Firefox for general usage, always use Pale Moon Browser now for BTw performance testing.

The "Further Diagnostics" option of the BTw tester in now very reliable since the few weeks outage before Xmas, very rarely fails now in producing BRAS IP profile details, used to be very hit and miss before the outage.

As other forum members have already said, it's difficult to offer an opinion on your line performance without modem/router stat's.

[Wirezfree]

Hi All,

Stats page below... Unfortunately I did such a good job with my router password... I forgot it    ... So a hard rest and setup this morning.

[re0]

Looks like you've gained a little over 2 Mbps on the downstream, but lost around 1.4 Mbps on the upstream.

I am unable to tell whether your SNRM is set to 3 dB on the downstream or whether you synchronised during a time of low interference (so it started at 6 dB but dropped to 3.5 dB throughout the day). None of the typical ISP routers give you much to go on when figuring out this stuff. Either way, small variances in the speed are possible at each resync due to the way bits are allocated so that might account for the 13% drop in the upstream and 4% increase in the downstream (of course, that excludes other factors such as action from the DLM).

I would say just enjoy the speed that you get!

[Wirezfree]

@ re0

Yes... It's doing me fine..

I was considering getting a new modem router, but which one..??
One with GigE on all ports, not just one, then dispense with a switch for my 2 NAS boxes.
Also with USB 3 useful for tacking on some USB 3 drives occasionally.

Not sure though if I would gain anything on the BB side.

Cheers