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#195564 24-Apr-2016 17:39

I got a speed boost a few months ago from around 30Mbps to mid 40's. This was in connection with well publicised band plan changes. Now I'm suddenly getting almost 52Mbps and I have no explanation. Does anyone know why?

I'm several hundred metres from the exchange in a rural "dot on the map" location so very happy :-) Thanks Chorus.

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#1541259 24-Apr-2016 17:39

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#1541272 24-Apr-2016 17:41

DLM (which is discussed in literally hundreds of other threads on here about VDSL2)

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#1541276 24-Apr-2016 17:46

sbiddle:

DLM (which is discussed in literally hundreds of other threads on here about VDSL2)

That's what the timing would suggest but I thought there may have been another explanation due to how stable it has been for the last few months. In effect I was wondering if Chorus had implemented any other tweaks lately.

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#1541304 24-Apr-2016 18:54

MichaelNZ:
sbiddle:

DLM (which is discussed in literally hundreds of other threads on here about VDSL2)

That's what the timing would suggest but I thought there may have been another explanation due to how stable it has been for the last few months. In effect I was wondering if Chorus had implemented any other tweaks lately.

Chorus haven't made any significant changes in a number of months. So it's DLM doing the job it was designed to do.

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#1541306 24-Apr-2016 18:56

BarTender:
Chorus haven't made any significant changes in a number of months. So it's DLM doing the job it was designed to do.

Thanks for that.

Feel free to close this thread sbiddle or other Admin.

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#1541308 24-Apr-2016 18:57

a jump of 10mbit there, i would put down to a few things.

You just had a powercut, or some form of whole area outage and resynced while noise was low.

You have moved from a 12dB to an 9dB profile as DLM has decided your line is stable for it.

You have moved to 17a on a borderline 17a line (considering you do say your only a few hundred meters away this would be my pick.)

VDSL being a copper product can always be changing, enjoy the speed boost and hope it doesnt drop back!

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#1541313 24-Apr-2016 19:00

hio77:

You have moved to 17a on a borderline 17a line (considering you do say your only a few hundred meters away this would be my pick.)

It's on 8B.

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#1542047 26-Apr-2016 11:16

My upload speed has barely changed from around 8Mbps. What could be the reason for this?

router>show controllers VdSL 0
Controller VDSL 0 is UP

Daemon Status: Up

XTU-R (DS) XTU-C (US)
Chip Vendor ID: 'BDCM' 'IKNS'
Chip Vendor Specific: 0x0000 0x0001
Chip Vendor Country: 0xB500 0xB500
Modem Vendor ID: 'CSCO' ' '
Modem Vendor Specific: 0x4602 0x0000
Modem Vendor Country: 0xB500 0x0000
Serial Number Near: [redacted] 887VA-K9 15.3(3)M3
Serial Number Far: ^A
Modem Version Near: 15.3(3)M3
Modem Version Far: 0x0001

Modem Status: TC Sync (Showtime!)
DSL Config Mode: AUTO
Trained Mode: G.993.2 (VDSL2) Profile 8b
TC Mode: PTM
Selftest Result: 0x00
DELT configuration: disabled
DELT state: not running
Trellis: ON ON
SRA: disabled disabled
SRA count: 0 0
Bit swap: enabled enabled
Bit swap count: 0 0
Line Attenuation: 0.0 dB 0.0 dB
Signal Attenuation: 0.0 dB 0.0 dB
Noise Margin: 8.9 dB 9.1 dB
Attainable Rate: 55692 kbits/s 8392 kbits/s
Actual Power: 15.3 dBm - 4.7 dBm
Per Band Status: D1 D2 D3 U0 U1 U2 U3
Line Attenuation(dB): 16.1 37.2 N/A 5.0 27.2 N/A N/A
Signal Attenuation(dB): 16.1 37.2 N/A 5.0 26.8 N/A N/A
Noise Margin(dB): 9.1 8.8 N/A 10.2 9.1 N/A N/A
Total FECC: 0 31454
Total ES: 130580 4456
Total SES: 56 3
Total LOSS: 10 0
Total UAS: 196 196
Total LPRS: 0 0
Total LOFS: 10 0
Total LOLS: 0 0

Full inits: 3
Failed full inits: 0
Short inits: 0
Failed short inits: 0

Firmware Source File Name (version)
-------- ------ -------------------
VDSL embedded VDSL_LINUX_DEV_01212008 (1)

Modem FW Version: 130205_1433-4.02L.03.A2pv6C035j.d23j
Modem PHY Version: A2pv6C035j.d23j
Vendor Version: Ap6v35j.23j 68

DS Channel1 DS Channel0 US Channel1 US Channel0
Speed (kbps): 0 55822 0 8192
SRA Previous Speed: 0 57491 0 8797
Previous Speed: 0 57491 0 8797
Reed-Solomon EC: 0 0 0 3283
CRC Errors: 0 173328 0 4583
Header Errors: 0 71556 0 0
Interleave (ms): 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00
Actual INP: 0.00 0.00 0.00 0.00

Training Log : Stopped
Training Log Filename : flash:vdsllog.bin

router>

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#1542156 26-Apr-2016 12:45

because on some lines some of the upload is sacrificed to give you a better download