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REIN trouble (mostly fixed)

npr
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

I suspect this is what ejs is using Wink
http://rsux.plainroad.me.uk
I've only tried the windows version but it's a good alternative to routerstats.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

I'm using DSLstats on linux mint and it works fine Smiley
ejs
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

As it says, DSLstats is for the allegedly superior Broadcom-based routers. Guess what I'm not using, apart from Tuesday evening 6-7pm on the radius picture.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

I did mention about using DSLstats in reply #27, I've tried the Windows version myself, the only bug (as such) is the CRC and FEC numbers on the graphs don't seem to relate directly to the numbers in the Modem/Router stats, but at least they are indicative of when a problem occurs, but as ejs says, no good on an 834v3.........whereas Routerstats under Wine would be, but by the sound of things he prefers to do things the hard way!
As far as Plusnet's tests, hmm, MTBE DS 192, ILQ Amber.  Not nice.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

The only good news is I've started dumping and saving all the stats at 10 second intervals, next job is to re-arrange the output into a more usable format.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

It would also be good news if you'd tried or were using 10.2.2.B on the 582n and it was holding connection at a similar or better speed than the v3  Roll_eyes
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

Quote from: ejs
I've started dumping and saving all the stats at 10 second intervals, next job is to re-arrange the output into a more usable format.

A spot of home electronics will also serve to keep you out of the sunshine longer if you get bored of reinventing the wheel, or can't borrow a Windows laptop.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

I am aware that I could run the RouterStats in wine, thank you. However it occurred to me that my solution could be extended to also monitor all sorts of other things, such as packets that end up getting dropped by the firewall:
Quote
IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC= SRC=178.216.224.209 DST=my.ip.ad.dr LEN=48 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x80 TTL=110 ID=10166 DF PROTO=TCP SPT=3261 DPT=445 WINDOW=65535 RES=0x00 SYN URGP=0

Or the number of packets the router's traffic shaper manages to drop:
[tt]cat /proc/net/priowrr
Enqueue    Dequeue    Maxqlen    Drops    Flushed
    20        20          1        0          0
      0          0          0        0          0
      0          0          0        0          0
653300    653300        26    4769          0
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SuperZoom
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

Probably very wise, since any network or TCP/IP issues are much more likely to be at your end rather than PlusNet's  Wink
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

Indeed, I can't actually say I blame him, although blame isn't the right word, in similar circumstances I might be tempted to do the same,. but I'm surprised that there isn't already something out there in the 'nix community - not that I've looked. However I wouldn't be quite so stubborn about trying the 582n with 10.2.2.B firmware Grin
PS. I liked the links Wink
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

Perhaps the source of the interference is away for the weekend so far, or (seems unlikely) the tests done on Friday afternoon have somehow changed something. Since about 14:15 Friday afternoon:
[tt]AR7 DSL Modem Statistics:
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[DSL Modem Stats]
        US Connection Rate:    708    DS Connection Rate:    3558
        DS Line Attenuation:    60.4    DS Margin:              6.0 (+2)
        US Line Attenuation:    36.9    US Margin:              5.3
        US Payload :            121674336      DS Payload:            1474279680
        US Superframe Cnt :    5645894 DS Superframe Cnt:      5645894
        US Transmit Power :    0      DS Transmit Power:      0
        LOS errors:            0      SEF errors:            0
        Errored Seconds:        543    Severely Err Secs:      12
        Frame mode:            0      Max Frame mode:        0
        Trained Path:          1      US Peak Cell Rate:      1669
        Trained Mode:          16      Selected Mode:          1
        ATUC Vendor Code:      54535443        ATUC Revision:  3
        Hybrid Selected:        3      Trellis:                1
        Showtime Count:        4      DS Max Attainable Bit Rate: 3832 kbps
        BitSwap:                1      US Max Attainable Bit Rate: 1104850 bps
        Annex:                  AnxA    psd_mask_qualifier: 0x0000
        Power Management Status: L0    DS HLINSC: 0
        US ACTPSD:              -345    DS ACTPSD: -366
        Total init. errors:    0      Total init. timeouts: 0
        Showtime init. errors:  0      Showtime init. timeouts: 0
        Last showtime init. errors: 0  Last showtime init. timeouts: 0
        ATUC ghsVid:  b5 00 54 53 54 43 05 10
        T1413Vid: 00 00        T1413Rev: 00            VendorRev: 00
        ATUR ghsVid:  b5 00 54 53 54 43 00 00
        T1413Vid: 00 00 T1413Rev: 00    VendorRev: 00
        [Upstream (TX) Interleave path]
        CRC:    32      FEC:    211010  NCD:    0
        LCD:    0      HEC:    23
        [Downstream (RX) Interleave path]
        CRC:    1212    FEC:    33191733        NCD:    0
        LCD:    0      HEC:    0
        [Upstream (TX) Fast path]
        CRC:    0      FEC:    0      NCD:    0
        LCD:    0      HEC:    0
        [Downstream (RX) Fast path]
        CRC:    0      FEC:    0      NCD:    0
        LCD:    0      HEC:    0
[ATM Stats]
        [Upstream/TX]
        Good Cell Cnt:  2534882
        Idle Cell Cnt:  157733939
        Tx Packets Dropped Count:      0
        Tx Bad Packets Count:  425
        [Downstream/RX)]
        Good Cell Cnt:  30714160
        Idle Cell Cnt:  774699129
        Bad Hec Cell Cnt:      13094
        Overflow Dropped Cell Cnt:      0
        Rx Packets Dropped Count:      0
        Rx Bad Packets Count:  0

[SAR AAL5 Stats]
        Tx PDU's:      1706567
        Rx PDU's:      2497453
        Tx Total Bytes: 204056021
        Rx Total Bytes: 2954715213
        Tx Total Error Counts:  0
        Rx Total Error Counts:  38156
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

The interference started at 17:48 today, but it is not currently having any significant impact on the broadband. The DS margin has dropped from 6.0 to 4.8, but apart from that, no other problems. The Severely Err Secs count isn't ticking up at 1 per second, there aren't vast numbers of CRC errors, nor packet loss. There's still the buzz on the AM radio near any electricity socket, light switch etc.
Edit: Added scalable PDF graphs - there was also some huge burst of noise at 10:46 which very nearly took out the DSL, I don't think it was a reporting glitch because all the stats were affected - ds nm was 2.1, ds and us sync speeds were zero, but somehow didn't drop adsl entirely.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

Interference stopped at about 21:55 on Saturday.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

The graph from 00:00 07/07/2013 to 06:00 today is similar to the previous graph, the interference was on from 20:48 to 22:56 (shown clearest by the light blue FEC line), there was a huge burst of noise at 16:20 followed by an even bigger one at 16:31. Again the interference didn't slow the broadband to a crawl like it did before Friday.
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Re: REIN trouble (DLM strangely inactive)

Goodness knows what the cause of the spike at 1046 on Saturday was, or one at 1620 on Sunday.
If it weren't for the fact it was a Saturday, I've hazarded a guess that just before 1800 was someone switching on a (plasma?) TV/Sky Box to watch the news, but the SNRM behaviour from 2200 to ~2300 doesn't match that theory too well and again from ~0245 to ~0430  Huh
When it started Sunday at 2048, the SNRM drop was much greater than Saturday, and then we have this different but still rather strange behaviour from ~2256 to ~0445 ish.  Undecided
Well your guess as to possibilities will probably better than mine from local knowledge.
Here's one stab in the dark - SNRM drop + errors, TV and Sky box on, fluctuating SNRM - Sky box recording, TV off.
Another stab, a neighbour's Modem/Router which has started to reach failure point turned on, crosstalk causes SNRM drop (yes that is a definite possibility if theirs and/or even your lines are not too well balanced), later when computer off and Modem/Router is idling, it suddenly goes unstable for a while.
I mean one could come up with all sorts of theories, until you narrow down the location, it's all hypothesis. Except the frequencies (tone numbers) of the dips in the Bits/Tone and SNRM/tone suggest in favour of the twp stabs I've made because they are the sorts of frequencies from odd harmonics of Switch mode PSUs. Having said that, it could be anything with a SMPS, but it's fitting the usage pattern that's the slight odd one Crazy