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#1 April 22 2010

belal
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Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Checking up your ADSL Line Quality via SNR Margin & Line Attenuation

SN Margin (AKA Signal to Noise Margin or Signal to Noise Ratio)
Relative strength of the DSL signal to Noise ratio. 6dB is the lowest dB manufactures specify for modem to be able to synch. In some instances interleaving* can help raise the noise margin to an acceptable level. The higher the number the better for this measurement.
> 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 no synch problems
> 20dB-28dB is excellent
> 29dB or above is outstanding
Line Attenuation
Measure of how much the signal has degraded between the DSLAM and the modem. Maximum signal loss recommendation is usually about 60dB. 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

http://blog.mx510.com/?p=703

Mine is: SNR 31
Line Attenuation 29 !
btw ogero's support told me that they are having some problems with their central....whereas the truth is that my modem was dying.. i just replaced it and everything is working like a charm.
advice: never ever try to call ogero or any other isp 's support.

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#2 April 22 2010

Kareem
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

on my Linksys route I can access a hidden page with the following url http://192.168.1.1/setup.cgi?next_file=adsl_driver.htm


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--- DSL Information ---
DSL Driver Version:  AnnexA version - A2pB022g.d20e
DSL VPI/VCI:         0/35
DSL Status:          ShowtimeRetrain Reason:    0
DSL Mode:            G.DMT ( changed from ADSL2+ to g.dmt => lower attenuation and ~20% better latency)
DSL Channel:         INTR
DSL Upstream Rate:   256 Kbps
DSL Downstream Rate: 1024 Kbps

                      Down         up   
DSL Noise Margin:    33.0 dB      31.0 dB
DSL Attenuation:     19.0 dB      13.0 dB
DSL Transmit Power:  14.6 dBm      7.1 dBm


...

---
     

I really doubt you have a 29db attenuation.

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#3 April 22 2010

kareem_nasser
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Check mine (IDM):
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:    20,0 / 32,0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:    29,0 / 34,5
Modulation:    G.992.3 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:    509 / 1.021
but what does this mean:   Concentrator Name:    HAMRA

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#4 April 22 2010

belal
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

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#5 April 22 2010

Kareem
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

dude 55db attenuation is almost outage ,or somehow vert poor, change the modulation and retry.

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#6 April 22 2010

Kareem
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

kareem_nasser wrote:

Check mine (IDM):
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:    20,0 / 32,0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:    29,0 / 34,5
Modulation:    G.992.3 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:    509 / 1.021
but what does this mean:   Concentrator Name:    HAMRA

Probably the pppoe concentrator name.

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#7 April 22 2010

gamer4life
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

this test is only for adsl users right? because i don't think i can do that with the mobi.

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#8 April 22 2010

Kareem
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Kareem wrote:
kareem_nasser wrote:

Check mine (IDM):
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:    20,0 / 32,0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:    29,0 / 34,5
Modulation:    G.992.3 annex A
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]:    509 / 1.021
but what does this mean:   Concentrator Name:    HAMRA

Probably the pppoe concentrator name.

Yes, good enough.

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#9 April 22 2010

Kareem
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

gamer4life wrote:

this test is only for adsl users right? because i don't think i can do that with the mobi.

Correct, only for ADSL modems;

plus mobi already sucks, no need for verification.

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#10 April 23 2010

gamer4life
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

hold on partner i have adsl idm 512kb and the mobi, i prefered using the mobi more because it doesnt suck after 11pm at all.

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#11 April 23 2010

kareem_nasser
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

IDM doesn't suck a lot... like others i mean. :(

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#12 April 23 2010

Padre
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Downstream    Upstream
SNR Margin (dB):    34.1     36.9
Attenuation (dB):    6.0     0.6

Last edited by Padre (April 23 2010)

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#13 April 25 2010

belal
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

dude 55db attenuation is almost outage ,or somehow vert poor, change the modulation and retry.

Kareem, i am too far away from the DSLAM...like about 4km...
by some calculations, it seems that the highest speed i can ever get is 3923kbit/s(we won't reach that speed in Lebanon,anyways)
http://fremnet.net/article/216/adsl-the … calculator

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#14 April 25 2010

kareem_nasser
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

thats mine (with down Attenuation=32):
Attainable Rate (ADSL1) – kbit/s     
7891
Attainable Rate (ADSL2) – kbit/s    
14914
Distance to exchange (Meters)    
2317

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#15 April 25 2010

Aly
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:    16,5 / 26,5
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:             29,5 / 34,5

According to the test posted by Belal :

Attainable Rate (ADSL1) – kbit/s      8000
Attainable Rate (ADSL2) – kbit/s             21525
Distance to exchange (Meters)             559

Yay my phone line is  future-proof  for several centuries in Lebanon.

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#16 April 25 2010

xterm
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

I can't find this information on my Thomson Gateway for the life of me. Where is it ?

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#17 April 25 2010

belal
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

I can't find this information on my Thomson Gateway for the life of me. Where is it ?

Login...broadband connection -> dsl connection -> details(up right corner)

& Aly, use this: Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:    16,5 / 26,5 = 17359. :/

Yay my phone line is  future-proof  for several centuries in Lebanon.

:rolleyes:

Last edited by belal (April 25 2010)

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#18 April 25 2010

Aly
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

belal wrote:

I can't find this information on my Thomson Gateway for the life of me. Where is it ?

Login...broadband connection -> dsl connection -> details(up right corner)

& Aly, use this: Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:    16,5 / 26,5 = 17359. :/

Yay my phone line is  future-proof  for several centuries in Lebanon.

:rolleyes:

Ah yeh my bad  then my line is futur-proof for a century or two :(

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#19 April 25 2010

Padre
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

why am i the only one with such a low attenuation ? :/

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#20 April 25 2010

Kareem
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Padre wrote:

why am i the only one with such a low attenuation ? :/

inaccurate results ?

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#21 April 25 2010

Ghaleb
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]:      12.0 / 7.5
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]:  11.0 / 18.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]:              27.0 / 30.5

I am somehow between outstanding and excellent

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#22 April 26 2010

Padre
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Kareem wrote:
Padre wrote:

why am i the only one with such a low attenuation ? :/

inaccurate results ?

weird, did try it more than once

SNR Margin (dB):    36.4     37.2
Attenuation (dB):    6.0     0.6

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#23 April 26 2010

Aly
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Re: Checking Your DSL Line Quality

Padre wrote:
Kareem wrote:
Padre wrote:

why am i the only one with such a low attenuation ? :/

inaccurate results ?

weird, did try it more than once

SNR Margin (dB):    36.4     37.2
Attenuation (dB):    6.0     0.6

The Central office is very close to your house ?

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