Thanks John.
I should point out that on my line, G.INP is only enabled on the downstream but, I get your point about quantity of ES errors.
What would you suggest as a % cap, to "entice" DLM? Or even an absolute number, given that my sync is 56.515 Mb/s down and 12.706 Mb/s up?
Incidentally, I've also reverted back to a VMG8924, from a Netgear D7000v1, just to see if it would make a difference. Downstream sync is essentially the same but, the D7000 seems to provide a greater upstream sync by around 1Mb/s. I guess that could just be within the normal variance level though. The D7000 also reduced my minimum latency, back to AA, by around 1ms from circa 8ms to 7ms. Something I didn't expect.
Paul