I still say it doesnt make sense to band above what the line can sync at. If you look at your max attainable, you can see its not possible to sync at a higher speed.
If you were banded, then your max attainable would be higher. Banding has no effect on max attainable sync speed in the same way that 80Mbps has no effect on max attainable. There is something else going on with the ECI cabs.
>>> During the sync event after the power cut QLN is marginally improved from the previous power cut which managed a 80mbit sync
Have you looked at your power output levels recently? I keep meaning to make a separate post about this. There's some really weird stuff going on with the ECI cabs and power levels which I suspect may be limiting our speeds. Huawei cabs do not appear to be affected and have much higher power output. Then look at what those on ECI cabs have been going through.. Gradual erosion which in theory will affect our max sync speed.
Last year my power output was always crica 15dBm. Then it dropped to circa 6dBm, now its only at 4.4dBm.
Look at ronskis stats, look at les70's - in fact a lot of the regs on ECI cabs have severely had their power reduced.
Why Ive no idea. What I can see though is when I took that first big hit to my power, was the same day that my sync speed took a loss down to 75Mb. Those on Huawei's dont seem to be affected and still have power circa 13dBm +
So not only do we not have g.INP and no prospect of vectoring, now weve had our power cut back drastically for some obscure reason.
Go through the list on MDWS and look at power levels for the Huawei cabs and you will see they havent changed. Then look at the figures for those on ECI's, we are only getting a fraction of the output power compared to what we used to get.