firstly thanks for sharing the info, but his answer re g.inp doesn't make sense when G.inp MK1 g.inp was enabled on the us was enabled as well as ds , it imo is only due to the fact that the ECI hardware doesn't support it , they have change it to ds only, if you understand what i mean?
IMHO they were possibly caught out with so many ECI modems actually in use with the Huawei cabs and the speed loss experienced by those users. If all Huawei cabs had Huawei modems attached then there wouldn't have been a problem*.
If they never anticipated using upstream ReTX on the ECI cabs, then it wouldn't have mattered so much that the ECI modems doesn't support it.
But the problem is that there are god-knows how many ECI modems out there attached to Huaweis.
I know for a fact that in July 2013 that the Quinn guy who did my own install only had ECI modems on his van and was dishing out ECI's regardless of which cab. I specifically asked for a Huawei, but he couldnt provide one because he didnt have any... nor did he have much of the right equipment at all when it came to that.. not even correct Openreach NTE's, which led to my bodged install on using an LJU2 and me having to place a call to my ISP to get a proper OR engineer to come back and sort out his mess of an install. Basically all he had were ECI modems and a pile of SSFPs.
*The issue with the HomeHub5A is another matter and IMHO thats up to BT
retail to push their suppliers to update the f/w. The HH5A should have sufficient hardware resources to be able to cope with upstream retransmission. TP-Link have successfully been able to do so with the TD-W9980.
burakkucat raises a very interesting point about
jsamuel's recent work into getting the ECI modems to work with upstream g.inp which has so far been
successful. The question is, if a member of our community can get f/w working so that the ECI's can perform upstream ReTX then why arent Openreach doing this?
The community where correct with quite a lot of things really, but nice to have it confirmed or at least some of it confirmed,
It is. I felt it needed to be done, because there was so many rumours and BS floating around on other forums.. the whole thing became one big confusing mess full of myths
.. and on that note if Im wrong in my assumptions in the first couple of para's then the relevant people are free to poke me with a sharp pointed stick.