Broadband Sync Rate down

Hey Guys,
Since the upgade to 21CN I had been getting a pretty reliable sync of 11.5mb/s with download speeds of up to 10Mb/s. I recently switched to a new modem/router and when I did I discovered that I am now syncing at about 8.5Mb/s which is a bit of a drop. I only ever noticed one disconnect on the old router, so as far as I knew it was stable, but it (a Linksys) was very lacking in the connection stats front)
I did have a mystery disconnect with the new router, however I was making changes to the Wi-Fi config at the time so it is concievable that the change caused the router firmware to reset the link for some reason.
The new router gives better diagnostic stats.
Router Stats are as follows:
adslctl: ADSL driver and PHY status
Status: Showtime
Last Retrain Reason: 8000
Last initialization procedure status: 0
Max: Upstream rate = 1200 Kbps, Downstream rate = 9980 Kbps
Bearer: 0, Upstream rate = 1191 Kbps, Downstream rate = 8820 Kbps
Link Power State: L0
Mode: ADSL2+
TPS-TC: ATM Mode
Trellis: UN /DN
Line Status: No Defect
Training Status: Showtime
Down Up
SNR (dB): 11.6 6.2
Attn(dB): 35.5 18.9
Pwr(dBm): 0.0 12.7
Total time = 1 days 18 hours 11 min 51 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 12821 503
ES: 7711 376
SES: 57 0
UAS: 575 575
LOS: 1 0
LOF: 9 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 15 minutes time = 11 min 51 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 11 0
ES: 9 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 15 minutes time = 15 min 0 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 27 0
ES: 20 0
SES: 0 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Latest 1 day time = 18 hours 11 min 51 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 1772 20
ES: 1189 13
SES: 3 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Previous 1 day time = 24 hours 0 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 2861 90
ES: 1600 70
SES: 15 0
UAS: 162 162
LOS: 1 0
LOF: 9 0
LOM: 0 0
Since Link time = 1 days 13 hours 33 min 5 sec
FEC: 0 0
CRC: 3536 93
ES: 2452 73
SES: 5 0
UAS: 0 0
LOS: 0 0
LOF: 0 0
LOM: 0 0
Speed test results:
1. Best Effort Test: -provides background information.
Download Speed
7.58 Mbps
0 Mbps
7.15 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed
Download speedachieved during the test was - 7.58 Mbps
For your connection, the acceptable range of speeds is 2 Mbps-7.15 Mbps.
IP Profile for your line is - 7.78 Mbps
2. Upstream Test: -provides background information.
Upload Speed
1.02 Mbps
0 Mbps
0.83 Mbps
Max Achievable Speed
Upload speed achieved during the test was - 1.02Mbps
Additional Information:
Upstream Rate IP profile on your line is - 0.83 Mbps
I normally use a DSL faceplate in the master socket - there is no extension wiring (I disconnected it all when I put the faceplate in).
The one thing that stands out is a steady trickle of CRC errors (typically 15-30 every 15 mins, with around 15-20 errored seconds), one question is if this would be considered a tolerable error rate?

imjolly wrote:
if your router reports similar to my netgear then WAN time is not the same as pppoA internet connection time. they are the same or close enough after a power reset but can be totally different if you have a drop in connection
Interesting I had noticed a slight difference between the uptime figures after the connect but had not realised it could be potentially as misleading as that. This one is a DGND4300 - I also get the following from the Internet Port connection status page:
Connection Time
482:10:56
Connection Status
Connected
Negotiation
Success
Authentication
Success
IP Address
[REMOVED]
Subnet Mask
255.255.255.255
And from the Satistics Page:
Port
Status
TxPkts
RxPkts
Collisions
Tx B/s
Rx B/s
Up Time
WAN
PPPoA
7046479
10885293
0
461
579
482:22:33
LAN1
Link down
LAN2
Link down
LAN3
Link down
LAN4
Link down
WLAN b/g/n
300M
6987194
4677493
0
235380
86596
03:23:53
WLAN a/n
450M
8072428
4527987
0
86442
58345
03:23:47
ADSL Link
Downstream
Upstream
Link Rate
8291 Kbps
1195 Kbps
Line Attenuation
36.0 dB
18.9 dB
Noise Margin
11.7 dB
6.1 dB
Which backs up the 20days+ figure. I also checked the router log which only goes back to Feb 10, but there are no connection drops or reconnections logged in that time, so I guess at worst a min of 9 days continuous uptime. As a final datapoint the sync rate is the exact amount that I noted the last time it connected (after I inadvertantly knocked the PSU plug out ), which would tend to coroboratethe idea that there have been no retrains in the last 20 days.
I was toying with the idea of letting it run another 10 days or so to see if it eventually does the right thing - and then force a retrain? But maybe it is time to ask the mods to give it a little prod to see if this new router can be as stable at the default noise margin.

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Loss of Signal (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
Loss of Power (Local/Remote): 0 / 0
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0 Mbps   7.15 Mbps
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0 Mbps   0.83 Mbps
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ADSL Status Information:
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Data Rate Information
Defect/Failure Indication
Statistics
Status:
Configured
Current
Line Status
SHOWTIME
Link Type
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Data Rate:
Stream Type
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Up Stream
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Down Stream
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Operation Data / Defect Indication:
Operation Data
Operation Data
Upstream
Downstream
Noise Margin
3 dB
6 dB
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0 dB
--- dB
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Indicator Name
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Far End Indicator
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0
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0
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ADSL Line Status
Connection Information
Line state:
Connected
Connection time:
0 days, 00:08:34
Downstream:
320 Kbps
Upstream:
448 Kbps
ADSL Settings
VPI/VCI:
0/38
Type:
PPPoA
Modulation:
G.992.1 Annex A
Latency type:
Interleaved
Noise margin (Down/Up):
8.8 dB / 17.0 dB
Line attenuation (Down/Up):
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Output power (Down/Up):
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FEC Events (Down/Up):
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CRC Events (Down/Up):
0 / 0
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HEC Events (Down/Up):
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All best wishes,
David.

David, nice to hear from you again, hope you are well.
This user tip might help you understand how accounts work with Address Book.
I believe you have duplicates because you have two sets of contacts. "iCloud" and "On My Mac". Once you have created all your contacts in the iCloud account, you should delete them from On My Mac.
You can move contacts simply by dragging and dropping from one account to the other, you don't need to export them all to the desktop (although doind so will serve as a good back up if all goes wrong). You should note that this copies them though rather than simply move them, so you'll need to delete the old set when you are done.
As for preserving groups from the On My Mac Account, you can't but you can simplify recreating them by copying contacts (drag and drop) from an on my mac group to an empty group in iCloud.
Not sure about the contacts that you are struggling to move.
Many aspects of iCloud are difficult to understand, have a mull through what I've said so far and come back if everything still doesn't fall into place.

I tunes says cant read or write to disk when tryiing to sync to down load podcasts

I cant Download podcasts. It syncs and only downloads a small part then stops. Then gives me a message can no read or wwrite to disk.

Only with podcasts? Does it sync completely when syncing songs?
Do you use automatic syncing to load content, or do you use the manual method (drag items to iPod in iTunes)?
It seems like the iPod's disk does not stay mounted during the sync process. As a test, try shutting down (powering off) the computer and disconnecting all USB devices, including hub (except for standard keyboard and mouse if normally used). If your computer is a laptop, connect its power adapter (so that it's not running on battery power). Do this to Reset (restart) the iPod
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1320
Start up computer, run iTunes, and connect the iPod. Try syncing podcasts as before, and note if there is any difference regarding this problem.

Sync group down? All my agents from different locations offline in same time.

Now is 2014-10-17, 10:22PM EST. Portal shows all my agents from 3 different locations offline. The last sync was done at around 8:30. I've confirmed my agents are online, and they can successfully ping service. Last nite was another nightmare, it look more
than half an hour for a sync cycle. Went back to normal all the suddent at 4am early morning.
What's going on?
Thanks,
Dan

Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
The service went back to normal at 1AM EST. It was down for 4 hours 30mins. But the service interruption is just too sudden and frequence as I said it went down on Thursday (16th Oct) night as well.
Here's my sync group info.
Sync group ID : a0d2cc7b-3a3e-481f-a3b5-be26a373fd5a_Southeast Asia
Region : Southeast Asia
Date time of the issue : 17th OCT 8:30PM EST to 18th OCT 1:00AM EST
Traing ID : No error found from logs since the sync group didn't work at all. It showed all of my agents offlined. And the sync group showed "Warning"
Please let me know if you need additional info. Thanks.
Dan

Broadband speed gone down!!

Hi, last six months since BT upgraded the Carlisle exchange for 20MB speeds my dowload speed has been a solid 12000kbps, for the past week that rate has dropped to 7660 kbps even though I sync at the below speed in the pic, are BT capping? router stats below, any help much appreciated.
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can you run btspeedtester and post the results
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DFSR Errors and Initial Sync slows down Network

Hello
I have a Windows 2012 Server (primary member-site A) where i created one Replication Group which replicates one folder with the amount of 104 GB of Data over WAN to another Windows 2012 Server (site B)
I added the Namespace-Server, created the Replication Group with 24 GB Staging quota and now it's waiting for the initial sync which slows down my network on the primary member site badly. Ping-timeouts, 6 times slower ping, i almost can not work remote.
It created the folder structure on site B, ~4GB.
If i stop the DFS-Replication service, network traffic is normal again. I also get a couple of errors in event viewer:
DFSR ID 5012 error 9026
DFSR ID 5014 error 9033
Anybody got an idea? Thanks

Hi,
Sorry for the delay in reply.
Robocopy is sometimes recommended to customers as well as Backup-Restore. For DFS initial replication, the important part is to get most files ready in the other side - it is fine to level some difference such as permission, newly updated files etc. These
difference will be updated soon with finishing initial replication.
Hope the issue was already fixed in these days!
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