it just seems odd to me how i was synced at 70/20 since i joined with a noise margin of 6 and now im connected at 60/20 with the same noise margin...
I don't think you are comparing full apples with full apples.
Right now, it looks like the DLM reset has been of the variety that starts out with interleaving, which may get removed in 2 days - and replaced with either an open profile, or a G.INP profile.
Speculation on here has been that there are 2 types of DLM reset, which behave differently. One of the differences is whether the starting position is "fully open" or "with FEC+interleaving". Another difference is whether existing "banding" (or, as you call it, "DLM capping") gets removed.
You said previously that you were now 60/20 with interleaving. But the act of adding interleaving also adds FEC, which in turn uses some of your bandwidth (10-15-20%). Because some of the bandwidth is used behind the scenes, your noise margins aren't directly comparable with times when there is little or no FEC.
i believe the dlm reset has turned off g.inp, my modem states bearer 0 and my errors are much much higher than before he reset dlm. if i had g.inp wouldnt it state bearer 1? my interleave depth on g.inp was 3 1 or 4 1 and now its 8 1. so im right in assuming the dlm reset has caused interleaving.
Hmm.
The best indication is to look at the "INP" and "delay" parameters, not the depth.
When INP is zero, then DLM has left things wide open.
When INP is in the region of 3-4, and delay is in the region of 8-16, then old-style DLM intervention has turned on FEC+interleaving - and you will get depths of around 1,000.
When INP is in the region of 30-50, and delay is still 0, the DLM has activated G.INP. We tend to see depths of 4 or 8, but other values have been seen - and differences might appear with ECI hardware.