Located in Pittsfield, VT. Just moved from New Jersey and am really missing FIOS.
DSL is currently my only option.
FairPoint DSL keeps dropping every few mins, however is stable sometimes for a few hours. (154 drops in 24 hours)
Going to try and wire the modem direct to the teleco box next.
When the connection is working I can get 6 megs down /.3/.4 up. Seems more like dial-up speed coming from FIOS or my office connection.
Seems like my noise margin is bouncing around from 17db to 6db.
The phone line when connected also has an insane amount of static (Filter in place) Disconnecting the phone has no impact on the dsl droping.
Should I call fairpoint now, or wait until I wire the modem direct?
These are the modem stats: (Using a Cisco 887VA)
HouseDSL887VA#sho controllers vdsl 0
Controller VDSL 0 is UP
Daemon Status: Up
XTU-R (DS) XTU-C (US)
Chip Vendor ID: 'BDCM' 'ALCB'
Chip Vendor Specific: 0x0000 0x0000
Chip Vendor Country: 0xB500 0xB500
Modem Vendor ID: 'CSCO' ' '
Modem Vendor Specific: 0x4602 0x0000
Modem Vendor Country: 0xB500 0x0000
Serial Number Near: FTX151004ZT 887VA-SE 15.1(4)
Serial Number Far:
Modem Version Near: 15.1(4)
Modem Version Far: 0x0000
Modem Status: TC Sync (Showtime!)
DSL Config Mode: AUTO
Trained Mode: G.992.1 (ADSL) Annex A
TC Mode: ATM
Selftest Result: 0x00
DELT configuration: disabled
DELT state: not running
Trellis: ON ON
Line Attenuation: 29.0 dB 20.0 dB
Signal Attenuation: 29.0 dB 0.0 dB
Noise Margin: 17.7 dB 13.0 dB
Attainable Rate: 11736 kbits/s 1192 kbits/s
Actual Power: 19.6 dBm 11.9 dBm
Total FECS: 8 0
Total ES: 0 0
Total SES: 0 0
Total LOSS: 0 0
Total UAS: 0 0
Total LPRS: 0 0
Total LOFS: 0 0
Total LOLS: 0 0
Bit swap: 0 0
Full inits: 66
Failed full inits: 0
Short inits: 0
Failed short inits: 0
Firmware Source File Name (version)
-------- ------ -------------------
VDSL embedded VDSL_LINUX_DEV_01212008 (1)
Modem FW Version: 110201_1728-4.02L.03.A2pv6C032b.d23b
Modem PHY Version: A2pv6C032b.d23b
DS Channel1 DS Channel0 US Channel1 US Channel0
Speed (kbps): 0 7616 0 864
Previous Speed: 0 7616 0 864
Total Cells: 0 3260609 0 0
User Cells: 0 4756 0 0
Reed-Solomon EC: 0 8 0 0
CRC Errors: 0 0 0 0
Header Errors: 0 0 0 0
Interleave (ms): 0.00 16.00 0.00 0.25
Actual INP: 0.00 2.00 0.00 0.00
Training Log : Stopped
Training Log Filename : flash:vdsllog.bin