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[guest]

Have they given you a migration date yet Chris?

[mr_chris]

Yeah the 30th.. so it's happening on Tuesday apparently! Fingers crossed everything goes ok.

[guest]

If you have BT guys like we have here then no worries. I've done 6 migrations (2 via LLU) and it always works fine. They ALWAYS do a ringback test and most always call to see whether all is OK if you pickup during the ringback test. I know people knock BT Openreach but I won't hear a word against the guys here as they have always been quite superb.

Hopefully it's all seamless (or as near as possible for you) - but one thing springs to mind. A friend tells me that Be are very short of "BeBox" units (6 weeks leadtime).

Have you got yours yet? If you have a problem then I can lend you mine for the duration (you'd want to run the setup CD on it again though) as I seem to finally have convinced the Netgear that it is in its own best interests to co-operate on UKO

[guest]

Today's the day then Do let us know how it went yes?

[roseway]

If we never hear from Chris again we'll know it went wrong.

[mr_chris]

Still on PlusNet for now... lol

Typically, I've just been called up, and I need to use my net connection for something work related. Great, when it's gonna go off at any point and may not come back up for some time!!

Talk about good timing

[mr_chris]

Well folks, I'm back!! Syncing at 9,871 down, 1,287 up

Just done a speedtest at bbmax and got 8,502 / 1,082 so I'm well chuffed

http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/results.php?t=1193757760&v=2658102

Fingers crossed it all stays this good

[guest]

Stats?

[mr_chris]

Oh yeah silly me

Modemstate            :  up
Operation Mode        :  G.992.5 Annex A
Channel Mode          :  interleaved
Number of resets      :  2

Vendor                              Local           Remote
  Country             :               0f               00
  Vendor              :             TMMB             Á  VendorSpecific      :
          0000             0000
  StandardRevisionNr  :               00               00

                                  Downstream        Upstream
Margin       [dB]     :              6.0              6.5
Attenuation  [dB]     :             42.0             22.0
OutputPower  [dBm]    :             19.0             12.0

Intrinsic/Actual  Bandwidth          %
  Upstream            :            100
  Downstream          :             78

Available Bandwidth                 Cells/s           Kbit/s
  Downstream          :            23280             9871
  Upstream            :             3035             1287


Transfer statistics
    Errors
      Received FEC    :            10200
      Received CRC    :                1
      Received HEC    :                0
      Transmitted FEC :                0
      Transmitted CRC :               48
      Transmitted HEC :               34

     Near end failures since reset
      Loss of frame:          0 failures
      Loss of signal:         0 failures
      Loss of power:          0 failures
      Errored seconds:        1 seconds
     Near end failures last 15 minutes
      Loss of frame:          0 seconds
      Loss of signal:         0 seconds
      Loss of power:          0 seconds
      Errored seconds:        0 seconds
     Near end failures current day
      Errored seconds:        1 seconds
     Near end failures previous day
      Errored seconds:        0 seconds

That's after about 50 minutes uptime and 750MB downloaded! Not too bad at all methinks

[roseway]

You've got the same attenuation as me, and I only get ~5700 down and 448 up on a BT line (mumble, mumble, try not to be jealous).

[mr_chris]

My attenuation on BT was only 37dB... looks like Be measure differently, probably using a higher frequency. I believe BT attenuation is measured at 300kHz (don't quote me on that), which is pretty much meaningless for ADSL2+ frequencies.

I'm well chuffed - can you tell

[guest]

Looking very good on downstream FEC and CRC Chris. I would be inclined to give it two weeks just to see if you do have an intermittent fault and if it still looks like that then raise a ticket to be put on fastpath. That will probably give you another 1.5Mbps or so on downstream sync rate.

What was the BeBox BTW? 780WL or the earlier Speedtouch they've had to use recently?

[mr_chris]

Looks like whatever the intermittent fault on my line was... it may have disappeared.. touchwood! I restarted MRTG on my NetGear to have a look at the stats before I got "Be'd" and the SNR was remarkably stable during the course of a whole week. Attached below.

It's a 585v6 rather than the 780WL which doesn't bother me to be honest. After the 2 weeks DLM training period is up I may try plugging my NetGear in for a laugh to see what happens But I'm not going to do anything just yet! I don't want to cause trouble, honest guv

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[guest]

Ahh of course they have DLM now. I'd forgotten about that.

ST585 - that was it. No VoIP ports yeah?

[mr_chris]

Nope, but that doesn't bother me either since I don't really use VoIP that much! I can always get an ATA if I feel so inclined. I've got a USB phone and X-Lite too which I used with PlusTalk a few times to use some of my free minutes (when it was working!)

Actually, funnily enough I was using it today when I got migrated!

But no, the lack of VoIP ports isn't an issue.

Yeah Re DLM - not sure what the details of it are, but I'm gonna leave well alone until 14 days is up! No point risking anything going wrong, I'm more than happy with my connection speed (for now!)