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Broadband Related => FTTC and FTTP Issues => Topic started by: toulouse on February 13, 2020, 09:38:03 AM
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Hello Kitizens,
I was just wondering if it's possible that my line has been banded. The reason for asking is that no matter how many times, or at what time of day that I reboot my router (A ZyXEL VMG8924-B10A), my downstream connection speed remains at 32400. The upstream speed does seem to vary, but is usually around the 56xx - 57xx mark, not sure if this is related.
If I have been 'banded' is there anything that I can do to remove the banding ?
TIA
toulouse
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Would you post line stats?
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Stats would be useful, but if your connection speed is always exactly the same then I'd say you are banded.
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32400 is definitely banded.
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32400 is definitely banded.
This. 100%
Ask your ISP for a DLM reset.
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Get the underlying fault that caused the banding fixed first though or it will just happen again.
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Ok, thanks for all of the replies and suggestions.
I did have a problem recently with a VERY noisy phone line, which resulted in 3 separate Openreach engineer visits, where they gradually replaced all my wiring from the buildings Distribution Point to my Master Socket and replaced it with a new model 5C. I live in a building containing 12 flats. The second engineer thought that he had found something at the street cabinet and rectified that, but he wasn't totally happy with the outcome that had been achieved. He then returned the following day and did something (finding a spare pair) in the underground manhole adjacent to my building. After all of these visits the noisy phone line seems to have disappeared, and I believe that a DLM reset was carried out at the end of the above work. This all happened around July / August last year.
Now, yesterday, I tried putting an Ebay VMG1312-B10A on to see if that would connect at a different rate, but I couldn't get it set up properly, so I have now reverted to my 8924-B10A, which has connected with the following stats.
DSLAM type / SW version IFTN:0xb206(178.6) / v0xb206
VDSL Profile 17a
Down Up
24.5 Line attenuation 0.0
32400 Connection speed 5279
6.3 SNR margin 6.1
0.9 Power 0.8
687 Interleave depth 1
3.5 INP: 0
I took note of the stats prior to introducing the VMG1312-B10A yesterday, and they were almost identical to the above apart from
24.6 Line attenuation 0.0
32400 Connection speed 5648
4.8 SNR margin 6.1
1.0 Power 0.9
1039 Interleave depth 1
3.5 INP: 0
I'll try the ISP DLM reset approach, as licquorice says the underlying fault (whatever that is) needs to be resolved. Any suggestions on what the fault might be.
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If the noisy phone line has cleared, I suspect the fault has been fixed but a DLM reset wasn't carried out and the banding has stuck. If the phone is still noisy an Openreach visit will be necessary to find the fault.
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So from around July / August last year it is the same sync. rate 32.4mbps, am I right?
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@mofa2020, yes I think that's pretty much the size of it. I do have DSLSTATS for the period, but I haven't set up the viewing properly yet. Just not enough hours in the day for me. I will however take a closer look and see when the connection speed settled at 32400
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ECI cabinets has no g.inp and the interleave is applied on download side only which the DLM would apply when the line was faulty so really it appears that it is stuck and DLM reset was not done I guess, either a DLM reset or keeping the router on 24/7 (but may take time) would fix things but sometimes the reset would be hard to get done unless there is a fault that is fixed on the line (which was the case last year but for some reason probably did not happen).
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Hello,
I've managed to track down when my line dropped to a DS connection speed of 32400 with a US speed of 5662. At around 4:44am on 2nd November 2019 the line dropped from 34875 / 5637. I'm sure that it wasn't anything that I did.
My DS speed has been 32400 since that time, although the US speed does seem to fluctuate.
I have contacted my ISP, and am awaiting their response.
Thanks for all the input so far.