NEW! AUTOMATIC DLM CALCULATORMany of you will have seen or noticed discussions about the Kitz DLM Calculator where you put in your ES and Retrain counts and it tells you how good or lousy your line is from the DLM's perspective. The data is used by the BT DLM system to categorise your line...
Since that data is already available to MDWS for all users, it seemed to make sense to try and automate it.
So, after a period of testing and developing in conjunction with Kitz, it's now available, at least in its initial state
To learn more about what you are seeing, you need to visit this page:
http://www.kitz.co.uk/adsl/DLM.htm#DLM_categorising_the_lineWe have gone for a simple easy to digest visual display using a Traffic Light/LED display system covering a rolling 24 Hour period. This sits at the top left of every pane in MDWS as per the example below - except for users NOT in the UK time zone (and that includes several still running upload data in in GMT rather than BST). Hovering over either of the two traffic lights (there are 27 combinations of colours in our traffic lights!) will display more info about the line state.
Most people will see a set of green lights indicating all is well.
Edit:Since first posted, there is now another set of Traffic Lights! These are in the center of the group and are for MTBE UPSTREAM error seconds. The original at left now reads DOWNSTREAM. Criteria are the same for both directions.
The left set is the
Error Rate display (
MTBE - Mean Time Between Errors [Errored Seconds])
The right set is the
Retrain Count display (
MTBR - Mean Time Between Retrains [Resync Count])
There are three Profiles listed, a set for WBC (ADSL) and another for VDSL. Only one is ever active though, the hover help tells you which is normally chosen by an ISP. If it's possible, we'll also tell you on the last line which profile you are on currently, depending on what info is available and whether the profile used by your ISP is known.
The ES data used for the light displays is updated once an hour, although Resyncs affect the display in real time as that panel is updated once a minute anyway.
I suppose that basically, if you've got all Green lights then you have nothing much to worry about.
But if you have lots of Amber and Red lights then there are some problems depending on which lights are is set but that is a separate discussion.
Here are some more examples:
This is the Retrain display for the line above
This is an ADLS2+ line with a few colours. As the profile used by most ISPs is Standard (the top light) then the line has errors and has sufficient errors to make it far less suitable for the other two profiles. There are no Retrains though in the past 24 hours.
I'm sure that if anyone has questions, those with more knowledge than I of the intricacies will answer them