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[Black Sheep]

Good news. Cheers.

[NewtronStar]

Excellent News 

[ktz392837]

The repair is due to roll out for all relevant customers within the next few weeks, but unfortunately we are not able to put anyone to the head of the queue

Does anyone know what they have fixed? Is this good news for people with ECI cabinets or does it just fix problems with Ginp on Huwaii cabinets? Thanks

[simoncraddock]

Sound like the Huawei Cab>ECI modem fix.

[KIAB]

Some great news.

I knew there was a problem with ECI cabinets, but, what was problems with Ginp on Huwaii cabinets?

[simoncraddock]

Speed drop and added latency when using ECI modem on lines served by Huawei cabs.

[kitz]

Openreach are very happy with the results of the trail and after some consultation they have now decided to roll this fix out across the network.

Thanks for that licquorice.    I havent been following the trials too closely this past week because Ive been elsewhere most of the time, but last I heard they'd 'fixed' the interleaving issue which resulted in latency returning to normal, but they still left on Error Correction so not everyone regained sync speed lost because of the RS overheads.

In fact correspondence I had from Openreach earlier this week seemed to imply Error Correction was still applied.   Has this changed since?

[kitz]

Sound like the Huawei Cab>ECI modem fix.

Its not an ECI fix, afaik its more of a DLM /technology type change.

[Chrysalis]

Seems some new firmware has been rolled to HH5A trial hubs, rumours are its to do with g.inp.

Not much info on the effect of DLM changes on ECI devices, one guy posted some info that suggest improvement was lacking but then I seen others who said they recovered performance at least on pings (not sure about speeds).

I asked someone I know who works in Belgium for Belgacom (their version of BT) and he said fast path can be used on upstream with g.inp on downstream.

[underzone]

That news has made my day! I thought my ECI cab was obsolete!

[Ragnarok]

That news has made my day! I thought my ECI cab was obsolete!

There was no specificity in the news, all we can read into it at the moment is that they are happy with the way this new trial configuration worked. They didn't mention which cabs it was, I can only assume it was huawei cabs and reducing or eliminating interleaving, on slightly or fully incompatible devices.

[Chrysalis]

also bear in mind openreach been happy might not mean the same thing as end users been happy, we need to wait and see.

[NewtronStar]

we need to wait and see.

That sounds like good advise.

[Ragnarok]

also bear in mind openreach been happy might not mean the same thing as end users been happy, we need to wait and see.

Some of us are very hard to please! I suspect we'll get the usual drip feed, or here about it first when forum members report changes to their lines.

[kitz]