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Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

xreyuk
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Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

I monitor my connection using DSL stats and an unlocked HG612
Over the past 2 days, we've had to have the power off three times. Unfortunately this has lead to DLM massively increasing my interleaving (over doubling it) and increasing ping times largely. I did notice errors increase quite largely after the first power cut though.
Is there anything we can do to force DLM back, because obviously these are genuine disconnects by me, and there is not a fault on the line. Personally I think DLM has been VERY aggressive.
Please advise.
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Oldjim
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

unfortunately no there isn't - you will just have to wait for DLM to do its thing
I am surprised that 3 power cuts would have done that by itself
AndyH
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

How many ES/SES did you see?
The power off a few times wouldn't be enough alone to see DLM intervene.
xreyuk
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

I'll have to check back through the logs and see. The SES was very low, the ES, if I remember my calculations was around 0.1% of the total available seconds.
The errors started after the first power off of the HG612.
xreyuk
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

It turns out that my new power line adapters had caused massive interference and cause huge errors on the line. Now I've taken them out, errors are back to where they were before.
Unfortunately I was too late, DLM has put me on a banded 35Mbps profile (line is capable of 51Mbps according to stats, but I usually had 45Mbps). It has reduced interleaving but not delay.
I'm assuming nothing can be done about this and I have to wait?
Can the staff comment?
hex
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

I went through a similar experience and the line recovered by itself over the space of a few weeks - as long as you are not getting too many ES/SES I imagine yours should recover fairly quickly also (you can mostly ignore FEC since they are just a consequence of interleaving being on).
What brand were the homeplugs just out of interest?
AndyH
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

@ Xreyuk - You have to wait (PN can't do anything). Here's a guide to DLM for FTTC http://community.plus.net/library/browsing/fttc-dlm-what-it-is-how-it-works/
xreyuk
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

Thought as much 
They were TP-Link ones. Never had a problem with their stuff but it was obvious these were the problem. Since I've removed them, massive difference in errors.
My fear is that DLM will get stuck and will not take me off the banded profile!
hex
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

Homeplugs were BT ones in my case - I wonder how many more out there are suffering from deteriorated connections caused by their use. 😕
Hopefully you should see your line stats starting to improve in the next few days. Wink
goldenfibre
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

Homeplugs is very bad. I used to have Netgear Homeplugs and can see FTTC errors is too high. Removed it off. Use ethernet cable instead and FTTC errors is now less!
Oldjim
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

I have a more fundamental question
How or why do Homeplugs seem to increase the error rate significantly when they shouldn't even be connected to the modem other than via the modem power supply
goldenfibre
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

@ oldjim. U can try plugged in homeplug and watch the FTTC errors count! Watch it before and after.
Oldjim
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

That doesn't answer or address the question of how or why not whether
Why does this seem to be specific to fibre
chenks76
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

i can only assume they mean the router is connected to the modem via homeplugs.
hex
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Re: Couple of power cuts - Interleaving and delay increased massively FTTC

It is a good question - my first guess would be that it affects FTTC more than ADSL due to the range of frequencies in use.  It would be interesting to see the bit loading graphs of anyone using homeplugs without any problems just to see how they compare - perhaps the connection of those unaffected is not using particular tones or perhaps it is something else completely (attached mine for reference).
Some people have reported improvements using ferrite beads around the power/line connections on the modem although I have tried that and it did not seem to make any difference here.  After trying out various things the solution for me was just to run a long length of ethernet cable and do away with them completely. Wink
@chenks76
No (in my case anyway) the router is not connected to the modem via homeplugs - as Oldjim infers the only 'connection' is the power input (and the ethernet connection from modem -> router, then router -> homeplug).