hio77: interesting that you got 17a after a bunch of reboots and so fast, from what i have read here, theres a low chance to get moved to it..

maybe DLM moves you to 17a if your line seems to be having a lot of issues?

dan: Just got VDSL a few days ago, pretty impressed to far.

I didnt have any DLM changes for 3 days or so, stayed at the same speed it initially synced at, started of 46mbit down 10up and stayed that way until sparky kept switching the power off and on trying to isolate a crazy power issue ive been having in the house

after all those power resets i checked my VDSL and its at 63mbit down.

pretty happy.

SamF: what's your attenuation & error rate like tho mate?

sidefx: @fellaintga: Your previous screenshot had attenuation of 7db which is quite a way off 5db isn't it? (given that it's logirithmic)

stevehodge:

sidefx: @fellaintga: Your previous screenshot had attenuation of 7db which is quite a way off 5db isn't it? (given that it's logirithmic)

It's also important to keep in mind that you can't really compare attenuation on 17a with attenuation on 8b. My attenuation went from 5db to 7db when I went to 17a. Dan's attenuation on 8b would have been lower than the 5db he's seeing now.

fellaintga:
Its 6dB at the moment with almost no errors.  My point is its crazy in a couple of days 17a and also Steve got 17a and you can't tell me the tolerance for getting 17a is that small.  We are talking within a 1Mbs sync rate difference for while we both on 8b profile.

SamF: Looks like the important ones to keep an eye on are:

SNR Margin: 12.3db currently (normal)
Attenuation: 0db (VERY good if this is accurate, but you'd have to be basically living on top of the cabinet for this to be true!)
Rate: Downstream: 38.8mbit (not bad, but if your attenuation is accurate I'd expect higher than that), Upstream: 10.3mbit (normal)
Delay: 8ms (normal for this DLM profile: DLM-6)
INP: 2 (normal for DLM-6)
RS Uncorrectable Errors: 0 (Very good, but it's early days yet)

Overall, it looks like you may have a pretty good line there!  I would put a master splitter in or if you're 'naked' simply disconnect all unused jack points at the original incoming connect point. VDSL is much more fussy about this kind of thing than ADSL.

If you do that you're HIGHLY likely to be put on a 17a profile very quickly.

One odd thing I did notice was your modem's reported 'downstream attainable rate', which it listed as 42mbit.  This is strange because it should read 70mbit, which is standard across the board.  It may not mean anything however.