[Gllug] ADSL SNR

[Rich Walker]

Richard Jones <rich at annexia.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 04:00:29PM +0100, Rich Walker wrote:
>> Downstream signal-to-noise ratio 10.5dB
>> Line attenuation 24dB
>
> No idea, but this is what mine says:
>
>              Downstream   Upstream
> Data rate    8128         448
> Noise margin 12.8         24.0
> Output power 17.8         12.3
> Attenuation  14.0         8.0
>
> Can someone explain what these figures mean?
>
>> (especially as pinging google is taking 5s)
>
> Try a traceroute/tracepath and see if a particular hop is causing the
> problem.

Well, I went for a "reset the ADSL router" and the problem went away :->

but the numbers are still about the same.

(I should probably be worried about that)

cheers, Rich


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