hmmm... I wonder if we could get some sky users to kill all background programs and wait for 127 seconds and ping the router and see if its in L2 mode? ive never noticed it? my ongoing graphs show the output power as 19dBm..even through the night?
Could you explain that in more detail as I am on Sky LLU and here are my router stats:
naah thats just normal power state, dunno what protocols you turned off to get higher sync rate though? possibly noise is reduced allowing you too sync a bit higher because your SNRM was 8.3db before- kill all background and foreground tasks so nothing is using the web, wait a few minutes with DMT Open and fire off this command in one of DMT's user queries box's
adslctl info --stats
5th line down there is:
Link Power State: L0
if its L0 then your in normal mode, if its L2 then its in power saving mode, this power saving mode (well, BT's version) reduces sync speed to 128k or something like that, and output power right down after 127 seconds of none-to-low use (128Kbps or less traffic), then when you use it again its supposed to kick back up to full sync speed...although the link that c6em supplys show it shifting someones connection between 6Mb / 3db SNRM (full) and 3Mb / 15db SNRM (Low Power) , Im sure I read it was 128k it lowers it too, obviously not, maybe it reduces power until you have 15db SNRM..
I dunno...black sheep may be able to shed some light here?
Iam sure that sky's PMM is just a module that assia have that claims to save money on energy costs overall, like "assia's version" of something thats always been around and in use for DSL, I havent seen this L2 mode implemented on sky yet, it doesnt seem to have any L2 sleep state on it like this cool broadband, well, sky dont use it (yet) if it does...
here are my power graphs & sync rate for last 9 hours duriing the night:
as you can see 19dBm and 11Mb all night, surely if sky had this sleep mode it would show on that, my sync rate is the same