Major Outage - Now Strange Behaviour

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smellsbad

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#243030 24-Nov-2018 13:25

Hi all

A while back my little town of Raglan suffered a significant broadband outage.

Previous to this outage, I was lucky to get 2000Kbps upstream.

Over the last few weeks, things have been up and down, all over the place. As low as 500Kbps and as high as 5000Kbps. (Upstream)

Today, it was pretty volatile. After a short power outage, when it came back up, this is what it looks like. I have never been on a 17A profile since being on VDSL for nearly 3 years. Considering how far I am away form cabinet/exchange, this seems very very strange.

Can I expect it to stay? What is likely to be going on? Any thoughts/insights?

Aredwood

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#2133275 24-Nov-2018 14:18

If your modem was the first to resync when the power came back on. Or maybe the power company switched your power back on before everyone else. The modem would have seen less interference than normal, therefore higher speeds.

If you have your modem on a UPS, restart it during any future power cuts.

smellsbad

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Geek

#2133282 24-Nov-2018 14:25

Aredwood: If your modem was the first to resync when the power came back on. Or maybe the power company switched your power back on before everyone else. The modem would have seen less interference than normal, therefore higher speeds.

If you have your modem on a UPS, restart it during any future power cuts.

Power cut today was just my place as it was to do with sparky doing some work.

MichaelNZ

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#2133317 24-Nov-2018 14:55

There has been 2 rounds of VDSL upgrades within the past year or thereabouts-

1. Extending the limit for 17A profile

2. Enabling g.vector and g.inp

Congratulations, you are now likely benefiting.

Your line stats look pretty slow though.

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smellsbad

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Geek

#2133353 24-Nov-2018 15:15

MichaelNZ:

There has been 2 rounds of VDSL upgrades within the past year or thereabouts-

1. Extending the limit for 17A profile

2. Enabling g.vector and g.inp

Congratulations, you are now likely benefiting.

Your line stats look pretty slow though.

I'm just happy with 3Mbps minimum upstream so I can stream at 720p30 ;) Just hoping it will remain at that level.