  steven506 Premium join:2003-06-11 Frankfort, KY | reply to jakers3 Re: Please check my stats.
Do the following:
1 - Hook the end of a phone line to the test port in the NID 2 - Hook the other end of that phone line into your modem 3 - Connect your computer to the modem via cat5e 4 - Pull the line stats |
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 jakers3
join:2003-08-23 Birmingham, AL
| reply to Dan Koerner OK, ran a cable from the modem to the nid test port for my house phones, bypassing the homerun. The modem will not sync. with this connection but will sync when I connect it back to the homerun. So, I can't get any modem stats off the line itself and have no idea as to what to try next. |
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  hailinfantry Bizarro Quinn Premium join:2004-01-18 Brooklyn, NY | It won't sync because the signal going back to your NID is filtered. Does your splitter have a test jack? TII splitter modules do. The Corning/Siecor ancilliary splitters don't. |
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 jakers3
join:2003-08-23 Birmingham, AL
| No test jack on the splitter. How is it being filtered when the modem is connected directly to the nid and not the splitter. Looks like it should be connected directly to the land line.As I said, I had the modem connected directly to the nid test jack and it would not sync. |
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  hailinfantry Bizarro Quinn Premium join:2004-01-18 Brooklyn, NY | Are you using a keptel splitter that allows the modem to be connected to the "regular" pots terminals and the filtered POTS to be connected to the splitter terminals? If that's the case, then the issue is probably elsewhere. |
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 Shootist Premium join:2003-02-10 Decatur, GA | reply to jakers3 The test jack is probably wired wrong or the cable you made up is wired wrong. -- Shooter Ready--Stand By BEEP ******** |
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 Dan Koerner
join:2000-08-05 Clinton, TN
| reply to jakers3 said by jakers3 : OK, ran a cable from the modem to the nid test port for my house phones, bypassing the homerun. The modem will not sync. with this connection but will sync when I connect it back to the homerun.
The cable or connection is bad that you hooked to the NID. If you have sync at the wall plate, you absolutely can get sync at the NID... but only if the cable is good, with good connections. Try that same cable at the wall plate... it shouldn't work there either. -- Dan |
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 jakers3
join:2003-08-23 Birmingham, AL | Dan hit it. Bad cable. I'll get another cable tomorrow and try again. Gotta get out of here now and get some work done. Thanks to all for the help. I'll post here again when I get the new cable and modem stats. |
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 jakers3
join:2003-08-23 Birmingham, AL
| I got the new cable, 100 ft. standard phone cable,hooked it to the nid test jack and the modem. Got sync but speeds were down by about 150 k down. The S/N and attn. were exactly the same at the nid and wall jack, s/n 9.0, attn.54.5. The latest reading at the cat5 jack is:
Line State Up Modulation G.DMT-Mode Data Path Interleaved
Transceiver Information
Down Stream Path Up Stream Path SN Margin (db) 7.5 not defined Line Attenuation (db) 54.5 not defined CRC Errors 2 5
It looks like the s/n varies a lot. Could this be the problem? What is an acceptable s/n ratio?
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  logic1977 Premium join:2001-02-11 Tucker, GA
| reply to jakers3 You are on interleaved which means bellsouth has put you on what they call a noise profile, which emans that either you are on a long loop or you have had trouble maintainign sync with the regular profile. You need to find out why they have that profile their, if the problem is distance their isn't going to much you can you do. |
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 kjakers
join:2002-04-23 Birmingham, AL
| Bell says I'm 17,500 ft. from the co so I know I'm on the edge but, I've had bsdsl for about 2 years and always got around 1200-1250 down until they started wiring up some new buildings around here. Now my speeds vary from around 600 to 950 down. Techs were out a month or so ago and got me back up to an average of 1000 down and I could live with that, given my long loop, if I could just get back up to 1000 down all the time. I know speeds vary from time to time but this seems too much. |
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  logic1977 Premium join:2001-02-11 Tucker, GA
| reply to jakers3 Being that your service, although not as good as it possibly could be, worked before you can try to get them go to go back out. Focus on the fact that it worked previously and after some telco work it doesn't work. They may be nothing you can do, but you might get lucky. |
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