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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2018, 02:52:32 AM »

Since 11:30 Saturday morning, line three, having just been ‘fixed’ was constantly losing sync, with massive packet loss. Downstream sync speed dropped from 3.15 Mbps down to ~740k and upstream speed is now a miserable ~160k.

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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2018, 05:19:50 PM »

You need A&A to reopen the fault report to Openreach, if possible, otherwise submit a new fault report and have it escalated.  :(
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2018, 09:48:05 PM »

I dropped a line to AA just in case they do not notice that that line is still very sickly indeed, frequent resynchs and syncing at low speed.

The clueless logs tell me that AA has left itself a reminder re this line - ‘needs a management review’ which hopefully means what it says on the tin. Sounds encouraging anyway, perhaps implies that they would have taken another look at it regardless.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #18 on: December 10, 2018, 11:04:14 AM »

It was actually all the way down to 300k downstream yesterday, because I had pushed the target SNRM all the way right up to 12dB in an attempt to put a stop to its constant resynching. It’s back up to where it should be now, at 2.68Mbps d/s @ dB SNRM.

Unplugged the modem from the line so AA could do some more tests.

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Today 10:05:02 Today 13:05:02 Management review TR H18KKT needs a review @aa
Today 09:59:45 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Informational Message: 4058 Notification Only - Fault is assigned to Engineer. Fault status is now PONR. bt
Today 09:59:45 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Estimated Response Time: 2018-12-11T23:59:59 bt
Today 09:59:45 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Status: Open - Past PONR bt
Today 09:47:59
Today 09:46:49 Tomorrow 09:46:49 Track fault and update customer PSTN Fault - NSY @aa
Today 09:46:49 Tomorrow 09:46:49 Wait for supplier to confirm fault cleared PSTN Fault - NSY @aa
Waiting on faultbtconfirm Wait customer confirms fault closed PSTN Fault - NSY @aa
Today 08:40:10 Today 17:00:00 ToDo Check Line since an SNR Reset was run @aa
Today 10:05:02 Today 13:05:02 Management review TR H18KKT needs a review @aa
Today 09:59:45 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Informational Message: 4058 Notification Only - Fault is assigned to Engineer. Fault status is now PONR. bt
Today 09:59:45 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Estimated Response Time: 2018-12-11T23:59:59 bt
Today 09:59:45 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Status: Open - Past PONR bt
Today 09:47:59 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Notes Field:
**Line Stability:
**Network Stability:
**Test Outcome: Fail
**MFL: LN
**Term Statement: LINE TERMINATION DETECTED
**Line Signature:
**Distance to Fault: 0
**Cable length: 8.05
**Test Start Time: 2018-12-10T09:47:52
**Test Stop Time: 2018-12-10T09:47:52 bt
Today 09:47:59 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Informational Message: 4465 Please refer to the Notes field for the actual message bt
Today 09:47:59 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Estimated Response Time: 2018-12-11T23:59:59 bt
Today 09:47:59 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Status: Open - Associating Info bt
Today 09:47:09 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Informational Message: 4040 Notification only - Estimated Response Time. bt
Today 09:47:09 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Informational Message: 3100 Trouble Report Accepted bt
Today 09:47:09 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Estimated Response Time: 2018-12-11T23:59:59 bt
Today 09:47:09 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Status: Open - New bt
Today 09:46:56 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Message Informational 9323 The asset care level 2.5 will be applied rather than the specified service level. bt
Today 09:46:56 Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Message Informational 3241 Notification Only - Trouble Report Creation Request is Pending bt
7 Dec 15:05:02 Today 09:58:46 Management review TR H18KKT needs a review @aa
Today 09:46:28 WLR3Test NSY dys00556dat01:142978817: Fail FAULT - Battery Contact ServiceLevel:2.5, MainFaultLocation:LN, FaultReportAdvised:Y, AppointmentRequired:N, LineStability:, NetworkStability:, StabilityStatement: @aa
Today 09:45:27 WLR3Test WLR3_CIDT_Test dys00556app04:426519159: Fail FAULT - Battery Contact ServiceLevel:2.5, MainFaultLocation:LN, FaultReportAdvised:Y, AppointmentRequired:N, LineStability:, NetworkStability:, StabilityStatement: @aa
Today 08:43:14 WLR3Test WLR3_CIDT_Test dys00556dat01:142960265: Fail FAULT - Battery Contact ServiceLevel:2.5, MainFaultLocation:LN, FaultReportAdvised:Y, AppointmentRequired

Does that say 8.05 km? Really?

So, BatteryContact again.

And we talked about this before: why “The asset care level 2.5 will be applied rather than the specified service level” ? I can’t remember what we said that was all about.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2018, 05:47:33 PM »

Does that say 8.05 km? Really?

Yes and no. Possibly circuit attenuation based. I suspect it is really more of a guess. Perhaps disembowelling a low flying raven, scattering the entrails and looking to see how they then laid was involved. I see to recall that Black Sheep looked at the network records and performed the sums, thus coming up with a physical distance between NSBRD and the Weaving Shed.

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So, BatteryContact again.

So it claims.

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And we talked about this before: why “The asset care level 2.5 will be applied rather than the specified service level” ? I can’t remember what we said that was all about.

Sorry, I can't remember that discussion and so cannot provide any help or hints.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #20 on: December 11, 2018, 12:05:47 AM »

AA was unbelievably fast, just within a couple of hours, another one of our local OR guys attacked it again:

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Today 11:44:48      Track PSTN Fault 5-7-168934119702 Notes Field: 10/12/2018 11:43:00
Point Of Intervention notes
Between this point. . . Location: 40 metres before cattle
Work Point: JB23 At this point. . . Plant details. . . Plant affected: JNT50
Plant type: UCJ Multiple Intervention?: N
Point Of Intervention notes ends
(No manually entered closure notes)
QBC Summary Start
I completed the ring ahead but there was no answer (voice message left where available). I continued to progress to the end customer premises. End customer advised there is a broadband issue. I have resolved the fault located at the D-side including aerial cables / lead-in / block terminal. The fault was located outside the end customer's curtilage and shown by damp / corrosion to wire / cable. The fault was fixed by clearing in joint. No additional work was carried out on the end customer's wiring / equipment beyond the NTE at their request and within TRC banding. Engineer has not visited end customer premises. I performed final FastTest from the customer premise. The test passed on 10/12/2018 11:23:02. QBC Summary End
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #21 on: December 11, 2018, 04:23:55 PM »

Hopefully all four circuits will now remain operational and stable for the foreseeable future.  :)
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #22 on: December 13, 2018, 11:04:39 AM »

No such luck. Back to line 4 now. Total chaos on Tuesday, umpteen resyncs, so AA who were monitoring the line for me, just immediately got OR straight out and OR did some work on the underground copper yesterday. More chaos of course on the line followed. I had no idea that anything was even happening as AA handled everything. I was so ill yesterday, I was unconscious all day until about 02:00 this morning when the drugs kicked in.

This morning my wife got a call from an OR engineer on the mainland who said he was heading for me. I was totally unawares. As I wasn’t expecting any visit, not having yet realised about the history of problems, I got my wife to ask the engineer which DSL phone number. He couldn’t understand that because not used to there being anything more than just ‘your phone line’ singular. Struggled to work out which line this phone number belonged to. Eventually my wife managed to find a table of phone numbers and mapped from that to line #4. So apparently someone is due to fix an earth side fault near the house in the next few mins.

Superb job AA did for me, just handling everything while I was out of it.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #23 on: December 13, 2018, 12:22:20 PM »

The OpenReach loutish guy was very rude to my wife, churlish and ignorant. Eye rolling and I’m just here for phones don’t care about internet, or words to that effect, I forget the exact words my wife recounted exactly. My wife told him we don’t have any phones. Then, concerning my ISP, something like, there was nothing wrong - ‘They probably just made it up’ or similar. The most nasty guy I’ve ever had and unfortunately I wasn’t there so my wife had to put up with this yob’s attitude. I don’t think his employer would be very happy if they had overheard.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #24 on: December 13, 2018, 12:31:54 PM »

Why are AA raising phone faults if they only sell you an xDSL service.

An engineer who turns up for a phone job can't just change the job sheet and retrain himself for broadband faults while sitting in his van unfortunately.

The attitude sounds bad from the engineer, but when they say "I'm here for phones, not internet" he's absolutely spot on. He's tasked to fix the issue on his sheet.

Perhaps BlackSheep could explain it a little more but it's a very common complaint. It isn't the fault of the engineer, it's the ISP who books the task.

No need for him to be rude about it. A simple "I'm sorry I'm here for a specific task only" would suffice.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #25 on: December 13, 2018, 12:37:01 PM »

Might this be the fault of BTw asking for the wrong thing of OpenReach rather than AAISP?
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #26 on: December 13, 2018, 01:31:37 PM »

I pay AA line rental. Don’t know if that is significant.

If something is sufficiently low-level and disruptive that it counts as a PSTN fault then that could be what it was?

This was, I am told, unsolicited mouthing off from our man at my wife who had never mentioned internet but he saw a router large switch umpteen modems etc and so volunteered this unsolicited statement of last century attitude.

I have just looked back in the event log in AA’s clueless. AA raised a PSTN fault on Tuesday.

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WLR3Test NSY dys00556app06:420989733: Fail FAULT - Earth Contact ServiceLevel:2.5, MainFaultLocation:LN, FaultReportAdvised:Y, AppointmentRequired:N, LineStability:, NetworkStability:, StabilityStatement:

AA also gave me our friend’s name.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #27 on: December 16, 2018, 01:00:44 AM »

Latest visits re cwcc@a.4 did not fix it at all. Still very unstable and downstream sync rate down to 1.3 Mbps, instead of ~2.8 Mbps d/s at 6dB target SNRM, or 3.1Mbps d/s at 3dB.

So the saga continues.

I’m wondering if I should reinstate ‘enhanced care’ on that line.
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #28 on: December 16, 2018, 04:19:15 PM »

My feeling is that once you have reported a problem to A&A, you should not need to do anything more. You are paying a premium price for a service from a premium ISP (CP) . . .  :-X
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Re: More problems with two other modems / lines
« Reply #29 on: December 17, 2018, 10:16:35 AM »

AA are looking into line 4 again.

If anyone has any advice about this line, I would be grateful. Will post up more raw stats after latest repairs if requested.



On an unrelated matter, line 1 is no longer stable at 3dB downstream target SNRM, with between one and three resyncs per day. I have put it up to 6dB, which unfortunately has chopped 254k off the downstream sync rate, was 3.115 Mbps down to 2.861 Mbps sync rate. So 3dB is quite a big deal, gives me an extra 9%, shame I can’t quite sustain it on this, the fastest performing line, any longer as presumably the noise variation must be too great or the target needs to be just a little bit higher, say 4dB or something. I ought to capture somenoise stats over time on this line. Need to get the good Johnson embedded stats webserver installed in that modem.
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