It arrived yesterday, but didnt get chance to put it on my line until this eve.
Sounds as if T-Link could corner the budget self-install FTTC market if only they made the stats more accessible..
I'm pessimistic that they will, which is a shame.
One of the managers who used to work there was very supportive of the idea, and he actually took it up with head office. I did some sort of report showing what we could do with the likes of DSLstats and such. Unfortunately I believe it was vetoed in Shenzhen or where ever it is for 'security reasons'. One of the other UK product/dev managers took it up again last year (the guy who sorted the g.inp fix thingy), but all went quiet.
I note that the TD-W9970 does have a little bit more info available via the tplink CLI than the others in that it shows split down of the medley bands for atten, SNRm and power.
TP-LINK(conf)#adsl show info
INDEX=1
{
enable=1
status=Up
linkEncapsulationRequested=
linkEncapsulationUsed=G.993.2_Annex_K_PTM
modulationType=VDSL2
lineEncoding=
allowedProfiles=8a,8b,8c,8d,12a,12b,17a,30a
currentProfile=17a
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_8a=1
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_8b=1
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_8c=1
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_8d=1
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_12a=1
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_12b=1
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_17a=1
X_TP_VDSLProfiles_30a=0
dataPath=
interleaveDepth=0
lineNumber=0
upstreamCurrRate=20000
downstreamCurrRate=79987
upstreamMaxRate=27192
downstreamMaxRate=83825
upstreamNoiseMargin=97
downstreamNoiseMargin=70
upstreamAttenuation=160
downstreamAttenuation=94
upstreamPower=32
downstreamPower=143
usNegBandPlanDiscPresentation=3
dsNegBandPlanDiscPresentation=3
SATNus=10,159,277,1023,1023
SATNds=91,214,343,1023,1023
LATNus=7,160,277,1023,1023
LATNds=94,216,343,1023,1023
SNRMarginus=120,100,96,-512,-512
SNRMarginds=70,70,70,-512,-512
transmitPowerUs=-68,-283,28,-1281,-1281
transmitPowerDs=119,75,73,-1281,-1281
ATURVendor=
ATURCountry=
ATUCVendor=
ATUCCountry=
totalStart=3951
showtimeStart=2597
quarterHourStart=0
X_TP_Bitswap=On
X_TP_SRA=Off
X_TP_AdslModulationCfg=Multimode
X_TP_AnnexType=Annex A/L
X_TP_SupportAdslMode=VDSL2:A;T1.413:A;G.lite:A;G.dmt:A;ADSL2:A,A/L;ADSL2+:A,M,A/
L/M;Auto Sync-up:A,A/L,M,A/L/M
}
cmd:SUCC
I put the HG612 on to do some direct stat comparisons and downstream performance looks slightly higher. My upstream headroom seems to have taken a bit of a hit though.
Im still poking around atm testing out the more basic things such as wifi etc, so havent looked at anything under the hood. It looks like just 2 screws to get into the case, so that should hopefully be easy
For the money though, it seems good.