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Author Topic: Sudden drop in FTTC performance; why?  (Read 1823 times)

bart613

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Sudden drop in FTTC performance; why?
« on: December 14, 2014, 12:19:39 PM »

Hi folks,

I have had some problems with my FTTC recently -- http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php?topic=14696.0 -- but I thought I managed to track them down to faulty/dodgy power supply connected to Cisco ASA 5505 which was standing next to my modem and causing massive RFI (literally, I switched PS and number of FEC errors went down to ~ 0; after 3 days DLM disabled interleaving on my line and speed went up to ~ 44Mbps attainable and 39.9Mbps sync on 40/10 line).

It was all nice and dandy I was enjoying low latency and great speed  8); in short great performance on my broadband.

This morning I got notification that my line has resynced.  Checked everything and noticed massilvey elevated number of FEC errors >:(, errored seconds and degraded SNRM and SNR levels that *all* started around 1PM on Friday (12 Dec 14)  >:( >:( >:(

I wasn't even at home around that time and I'm pretty sure there isn't anything around in my flat that could turn itself on to cause RFI.

Have a look at these; number of FEC errors


Errored seconds; it went down to 0 after I switched the modem off this morning after I noticed the problems (I wanted to get a fresh graph on QLN.)


SNRM


I'm massively puzzled as to what possibly could happen.  I tried to feed these stats to A&A ISP support, but they don't really seem like they're to keen on them (what is a bit disappointing).

Does any of you kind kitizens have any suggestions / want to take guesses as to what potentially might have happened?  I'm still very fresh in the whole (V)DSL stats world :graduate: but given the QLN didn't change, HLog looks okay and it's just SNRM suddenly went down I literally have no idea what could cause this.

Any input much appreciated.  Thank you in advance!

Bart
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Re: Sudden drop in FTTC performance; why?
« Reply #1 on: December 14, 2014, 12:48:38 PM »

At this time of year the most obvious cause is christmas tree lights.  Doesnt have to be in your property, could be a neighbouring flat.
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Re: Sudden drop in FTTC performance; why?
« Reply #2 on: December 14, 2014, 12:58:11 PM »

That is a ... very good point.  It makes me speechless, but it's fair  :o :o :o

Especially, given my bedroom where master socket it (top class architecting here) is next to another bedroom with another master socket just behind the wall.

Damn it!  >:(
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