@roseway
many thanks,
any ideas on tplink TD-w9980 which connects ,but receives no sampling data
The TDW9980 will not work with DSL stats.
It contains a Lantiq VRX-268 chipset and therefore wont respond to BCM (Broadcom) commands such as
adsl info --stats.
Try looking at ejs's thread
here on StatPOSTer if you want more info from the TD-W9980
If you want to use DSLstats then you need
1) A modem with a BCM chipset
2) The modem f/w must not be crippled by the manufacturer to stop access to the BCM commands.
TP-link always put their own f/w on their modems which has their own CLI. Regardless if the chipset is BCM or not, they deny access to the BCM CLI by default.
Eric provides a list
here of routers which will work with DSLstats.