I am on an ECI cab too and I have noticed some odd goings on my line as well. Had a re connection the other night interleaving depth got reduced, then last night at 0100, interleaving depth applied at the highest and lost 5Mbps off the attainable and synced lower than normal. Hopefully there is nothing wrong with the rollout, and rather than applying G.INP, applying interleaving instead. However in regards to thunderstorms, I thought that wide area events are taken into consideration on VDSL DSLAM's, by the DLM, or does it not apply the same with ECI cabinets? Sure doesn't seem to be the case with mine, haven't had any thunderstorms in my area but I could see the errors ES racking up a lot from thunderstorms in the midlands, calmed down when they went. I'm on TalkTalk in the Selby York area if that helps.