Hi
Could it be versions 7 and below are under reporting FEC and this has been fixed in newer versions of the Broadcom driver?
As I understand it FEC is part of interleaving and shows the number of errors corrected, so is nothing to worry about, the opposite almost in that it confirms error correction is working.
Little difference for me so far on 11b2. 24 ES in 40 minutes.
24 ES in 40 minutes is absolutely no problem at all, that's pretty good. VDSL like ADSL is designed to always run with some errors, it is how they push so much down old telephone cable. As a percentage of the total packets transmitted in 40 minutes it is statistically irrelevant.
It could just be this newer Broadcom driver is the fixed one, and the older versions are broken and mis-reporting, perhaps across every Broadcom based VDSL modem using these older Broadcom driver versions?
Regards
Phil