Line spec and general info - Please help

[Venom Maker]

Hi all who are in the know, please help me understand what is right or wrong with the specs on my line.

Connected on an 8 Mbs line and have a 8Mbs Uncapped Afrihost Account - Please explain in simple language for the other dummies out there.

Here you go

xDSL Port Details Upstream Downstream
Line Rate: 0.928 Mbps 8.160 Mbps
Actual Net Data Rate: 0.896 Mbps 8.128 Mbps
Trellis Coding: ON ON
SNR Margin: 6.0 dB 7.1 dB
Actual Delay: 0 ms 0 ms
Transmit Power: 12.9 dBm 19.8 dBm
Receive Power: 4.7 dBm 4.7 dBm
Actual INP: 0.0 symbols 0.0 symbols
Total Attenuation: 0.0 dB 0.0 dB
Attainable Net Data Rate: 1.012 Mbps 8.784 Mbps

Thanks Guys and Gals

 

[Soul Assassin]

Hi all who are in the know, please help me understand what is right or wrong with the specs on my line.

Connected on an 8 Mbs line and have a 8Mbs Uncapped Afrihost Account - Please explain in simple language for the other dummies out there.

Here you go

xDSL Port Details Upstream Downstream
Line Rate: 0.928 Mbps 8.160 Mbps
Actual Net Data Rate: 0.896 Mbps 8.128 Mbps
Trellis Coding: ON ON
SNR Margin: 6.0 dB 7.1 dB
Actual Delay: 0 ms 0 ms
Transmit Power: 12.9 dBm 19.8 dBm
Receive Power: 4.7 dBm 4.7 dBm
Actual INP: 0.0 symbols 0.0 symbols
Total Attenuation: 0.0 dB 0.0 dB
Attainable Net Data Rate: 1.012 Mbps 8.784 Mbps

Thanks Guys and Gals

It doesn't show the attenuation, which is how far your exchange is, for some reason and your SNR, which is the quality of the line, is borderline, 6.0 is the minimum allowed on the network before they resync you at a lower speed.

 

[Venom Maker]

I have re-configured my routers position and now have a SNR of 12.4 DB and the attenuation is 23

 

[Soul Assassin]

Are you having issues with your line or did you just want an explanation of what's what?

 

[Venom Maker]

I am upgrading to a VDSL line, and in one of the Threads I was informed that if the SNR is at 6DB I will not be able to run a VDSL connection at 20Mbs. So I am trying to get as much advise out of you guys that are in the know to help me get the SNR value higher on my line. Via Google I have found a couple of pointers to go an look at, I found that with my telephone being connected directly of the Telkom jack and my router being connected via the second jack via a ADSL filter the SNR was 6 DB. I removed the phone and only had the Router connected via the ADSL filter and Telkom line and the reading went to 8.2 DB. With the Router now connected directly to the phone jack with out the filter and telephone being connected the SNR has increased to 12.4 DB.

What else can I do to improve the SNR?

Attenuation is the difference between the power transmitted at the near-end and the power received at the far-end. Attenuation is affected by the channel characteristics (wire gauge, quality, condition and length of the physical line). Therefore my Attenuation is 19 DB is this good or bad?

 

[Geoff.D]

What model line filter was in place and exactly how was the connection made?

Please let us have a model number /part number.

The connections should be that the ADSL/VDSL router is connected directly to the line with the "filter" only used when a telephone is connected to the same line. The ADSL signal should not go via the filter, but that depends on the model of filter you were given ....

 

[Venom Maker]

HWSP-168 DSL Splitter

Old connection
Connection phone - Phone jack to Phone
Router - Phone jack second plug to Router

New connection
Phone jack directly to router No connection to phone