What setting you use depends on where you're starting from. If you set the slider to the minimum position (1%) it reduces the target margin by about 5 to 5.5 dB. So if you're already at the default of 6 dB, then using this setting will almost certainly make your connection unstable. But if previous events have resulted in your target noise margin being increased to the maximum 15 dB, then the minimum setting on the slider will bring it down to about 9.5 dB which make a big improvement in your connection speed without seriously risking stability.
An in-between setting of 50% on the slider reduces your target noise margin by about 3 dB, which will give you maybe 400-600 kbps increase in your connection speed.
So if you want to have a play with the slider, what you really need to do is experiment with fairly small changes at a time. But don't do it too frequently (not more than once an hour, I suggest) otherwise you are cause DLM to flag your connection as unstable, and raise the target margin further.
Thanks Eric for the above.
I guess I am after line stability more than anything. Periodically I would lose sync in the early hours due to low SNR. What I hope to achieve is to try and prevent this drop of sync.
Hopefully if achieved my bras profile will become more stable, instead of fluctuating every few days.
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Downstream RX
Noise Margin: 6.9 dB
Connection Rate: 7680 Kbps
Line Attenuation: 28.0 dB
Power: 19.8 dBm
Max Rate: 8416 Kbps
SF: 74634
SF Errors: 1
Reed Solomon: 10150288
RS Corrected: 879
RS Un-Corrected: 25
HEC: 1
Errored Seconds: 186
Severe ES: 1
Interleave Depth: 64
Upstream TX
Noise Margin: 21.0 dB
Connection Rate: 448 Kbps
Line Attenuation: 15.5 dB
Power: 12.0 dBm
Max Rate: 1112 Kbps
SF: 75813
SF Errors: 0
Reed Solomon: 644410
RS Corrected: 0
RS Un-Corrected: 0
HEC: 0
Errored Seconds: 0
Severe ES: 0
Interleave Depth: 4
Totals
Total Up Time (As Reported):
1 days 41 min 0 sec
CRC: 387
LOS: 0
LOF: 0
ES : 186
Bytes Transferred (ppp0):
Tx: 68378802 (65.2 MiB)
Rx: 688845447 (656.9 MiB)
IP address: 82.69.119.122