The man came today, and now I have a NTE5C in the computer room, and the downstairs socket is relegated to an extension. Labour +parts was £41. I forgot to ask what he was using, but he said line was clean. I'd guess the apparatus was near to the that of a legacy digibox, 4 cm high.
It's 5.25 hrs uptime since the work, and just in case someone spots anything
adsl info --stats
adsl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Last Retrain Reason: 8000
Last initialization procedure status: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 888 Kbps, Downstream rate = 8196 Kbps
Bearer: 0, Upstream rate = 888 Kbps, Downstream rate = 3070 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: ADSL2+ Annex A
TPS-TC: ATM Mode(0x0)
Trellis: U:ON /D:ON
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 7.6 6.5
Attn(dB): 46.5 25.8
Pwr(dBm): 0.0 12.8
ADSL2 framing
Bearer 0
MSGc: 94 10
B: 6 13
M: 1 8
T: 9 9
R: 10 16
S: 0.0718 4.0000
L: 1894 256
D: 416 8
Counters
Bearer 0
SF: 1159240 108551
SFErr: 0 0
RS: 1043314301 1551269
RSCorr: 20472 1118
RSUnCorr: 0 0
Bearer 0
HEC: 0 0
OCD: 0 0
LCD: 0 0
Total Cells: 135609195 39184929
Data Cells: 7132230 479394
Drop Cells: 0
Bit Errors: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 46 46
AS: 18732
Bearer 0
INP: 8.50 2.00
INPRein: 0.00 0.00
delay: 7 8
PER: 16.15 18.00
OR: 49.51 7.11
AgR: 3107.39 892.51
Bitswap: 175/175 37/37
Total time = 5 hours 12 min 58 sec
FEC: 20472 1118
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 46 46
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 12 min 58 sec
FEC: 459 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
FEC: 1160 107
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 1 day time = 5 hours 12 min 58 sec
FEC: 20472 1118
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 46 46
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 1 day time = 0 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Since Link time = 5 hours 12 min 11 sec
FEC: 20472 1118
CRC: 0 0
ES: 0 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
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I dont expect marvels yet, but should I request bamding removed now or wait a bit?