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In my mind's eye, I've always pictured MrBeep working tirelessly in his garage surrounded by the Openweb Network, a crazy patchwork of computers, routers and switches all held together with sweat, sticky tape and chewing gum.

The great thing, though, is that there is always an endless supply of sweat, sticky tape and chewing gum.
 
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DSL Noise Margin: 120 dB 55 dB
DSL Attenuation: 225 dB 413 dB
DSL Transmit Power: -497 dBm -420 dBm

This is my line stats.. Good or bad?
 
KoKaRoT said:
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DSL Noise Margin: 120 dB 55 dB
DSL Attenuation: 225 dB 413 dB
DSL Transmit Power: -497 dBm -420 dBm

This is my line stats.. Good or bad?
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That looks chronic dude

SNR Margin : 11.0 12.0 db
Line Attenuation : 35.0 19.5 db
Data Rate : 4096 512 kbps

That is mine yours looks like it has so much noise, i would phone telkom although i could be wrong but wow i have never those results before. I have no idea what transmit power is but i would imagine it being in the minus cannot be good :D. When i think of power i think plus or positive not negative but then again i could be mistaken.
 
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Hey.. now mine... do mine... these OK ?

ADSL Link Downstream Upstream
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Connection Speed 384 kbps 128 kbps
Line Attenuation 36.5 db 18.5 db
Noise Margin 31.0 db 27 db
 
KoKaRoT said:
Down up
DSL Noise Margin: 120 dB 55 dB
DSL Attenuation: 225 dB 413 dB
DSL Transmit Power: -497 dBm -420 dBm

This is my line stats.. Good or bad?
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Wierd. Are you missing decimal points?

For Noise Margin, higher is better. But 120dB is outlandish.

Borrowing from another post:

Noise Margin (AKA Signal to Noise Margin or Signal to Noise Ratio)
Relative strength of the DSL signal to Noise ratio. The higher the number the better for this measurement. In some instances interleaving can help raise the noise margin to an acceptable level.

6dB or below is bad and will experience no synch or intermittent synch problems
7dB-10dB is fair but does not leave much room for variances in conditions
11dB-20dB is good with little or no synch problems* (but see note below)
20dB-28dB is excellent
29dB or above is outstanding

* Note that there may be short term bursts of noise that may drop the margin, but due to the sampling time of the management utility in your modem, will not show up in the figures.

Line Attenuation
Measure of how much the signal has degraded between the DSLAM and the modem. This is largely a function of the distance from the exchange. The lower the dB the better for this measurement.

20dB and below is outstanding
20dB-30dB is excellent
30dB-40dB is very good
40dB-50dB is good
50dB-60dB is poor and may experience connectivity issues
60dB or above is bad and will experience connectivity issues

DSL Rate ***/tx/rx/Rate
The actual service data rate that your ISP has provisioned.

Attainable Line Rate
This is the maximum rate at which your modem can connect to the DSLAM if there was no service provisioning limiting the bandwidth. The higher the number the better.

Occupancy
Occupancy is the percentage of line capacity used. Each DSL line is capable of a certain maximum speed or "capacity" dependant on line distance and other varying factors. The occupancy is an expression of your current sync rate setting over your maximum capacity. There are occupancy rates for both upload and download. The lower the figure, the better. Because of error correction and other factors in the DSL protocols, a margin is required so that a connection can be maintained under varying line conditions. If the occupancy approaches 100%, any interference can cause the ADSL sync to be lost. A useful measurement to monitor when sync problems occur. [AFAIK the billion SNMP utility does not give a direct measurement of occupancy :-( ]
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Noise margin seems high to me kilo but then mine could to low. Not really sure but i would imagine the lower the noise the better the line would run.

Could also have something to do with the distance from the exchange, i am about 1km from it. I think people who are 4-5km will have a high noise margin.
 
Guys i have been on the phone to Telkom for the past 2 months asking them to sort my line out.
My line will sync from 4088kbps to 3867 to 3444 to even 2898kbps.

My noise margins that i posted is from a Linksys Cisco WAG120N router, Telkom tells me its a **** router... so i dunno, i knw Linksys and Cisco to be good.

I am literally starting to give up, these guys cant fix *****. im even starting to think of canceling my line and apply for a new one, cause my other tenant in the house his own 4mb line connected to the same exchange and its flawless.. so WTF!

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DSL Noise Margin: 120 dB 53 dB
DSL Attenuation: 225 dB 414 dB
DSL Transmit Power: -498 dBm -420 dBm

What to do i have no idea anymore
 
Anyone experienced that download speed on VB backbone jump around a lot with downloads from Megaupload? I'd be getting 100kbs and then it drops to 15-24 kbs, then a couple of minutes later it shoots back up to 80-100kbs and the cycle gets repeated. I really don't know anymore if there is a problem with my line or account or with Megaupload. All I know is that I every time the speed drops down I want to roll into a ball and start crying. While my download speed is dropped I decided to try to download winrar and that gets my max line speed. Anyone have any tips?
 
Dude get a billion router, you can keep saying telkom are talking rubbish but without actually trying a new router you won't know for sure.
 
Anybody else getting erratic speeds on the IS backbone?

4mb Gold uncapped, speeds fluctuating between 1-3mb.
 
KoKaRoT said:
Guys i have been on the phone to Telkom for the past 2 months asking them to sort my line out.
My line will sync from 4088kbps to 3867 to 3444 to even 2898kbps.

My noise margins that i posted is from a Linksys Cisco WAG120N router, Telkom tells me its a **** router... so i dunno, i knw Linksys and Cisco to be good.

I am literally starting to give up, these guys cant fix *****. im even starting to think of canceling my line and apply for a new one, cause my other tenant in the house his own 4mb line connected to the same exchange and its flawless.. so WTF!

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DSL Noise Margin: 120 dB 53 dB
DSL Attenuation: 225 dB 414 dB
DSL Transmit Power: -498 dBm -420 dBm

What to do i have no idea anymore
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Hey Dude,

Telkom are (as usual) telling people all kinds of funky stories. I have the Linksys WAG320N and here are my line stats :

DSL Upstream Rate: 640 Kbps
DSL Downstream Rate: 6144 Kbps


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DSL Noise Margin: 16.0 dB 12.0 dB
DSL Attenuation: 43.0 dB 25.0 dB
DSL Transmit Power: 17.9 dBm 9.1 dBm

Anything over 12db for Noise (or SNR) for 4mb and up is stable, anything below that and you will have line issues. If your SNR fluctuates during the day/night it could mean a bad cable somewhere, ask Telkom to change local leads and if that doesn't solve the problem tell them to get a senior tech out to test the noise on the line. I had a simliar problem where my line kept deteriorating and SNR kept fluctuating, turned out to be a faulty cable.
 
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Something isn't right with international. Either that or something is really wrong with my line. In any case I will see how it is when I wake up. If its not better I guess I'll give telkom a call to find out if the problem is on their side. Sigh, no luck with the internet for me this month.
 
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Something isn't right with international. Either that or something is really wrong with my line. In any case I will see how it is when I wake up. If its not better I guess I'll give telkom a call to find out if the problem is on their side. Sigh, no luck with the internet for me this month.
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Let's hope MrBeep can put you on an IS backbone since you have so many problems. Calling telkom isn't that bad of an idea. Just ask them to re create your ports. But don't let them call someone out, that costs money :p
 
Been downloading for about 20 mins now at full speed. Hoping it holds.
 
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