Anyone Using an Asus DSL-AC68U

Thanks all again for your feedback - I've been informed today that the beta feature will be included in the next official firmware update.

Awaiting more info to pass onto you, though we have Insomnia and Easter coming up which may delay that slightly.
 
Jim - ASUS said:
Thanks all again for your feedback - I've been informed today that the beta feature will be included in the next official firmware update.

Awaiting more info to pass onto you, though we have Insomnia and Easter coming up which may delay that slightly.
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Good news. I look forwards to it also making its way into beta or full f/w for DSL-N66U. Any news of plans for other devices?
 
Would someone be as kind to explain interleaving depths and also INP for me?

My ECI modem re-synced today at 60.1Mb and pings increased to 40ms approx. I took the opportunity to connect my unlocked HG612 and made a slight adjustment to my internal wiring.

These are the stats I pulled from the modem earlier.

Line attenuation (dB): 0.0 0.0
Signal attenuation (dB): Not monitored
Connection speed (kbps): 64986 19998
SNR margin (dB): 6.1 7.0
Power (dBm): 13.6 7.4
Interleave depth: 1363 607
INP: 3.00 4.00
G.INP: Not enabled
 
mjgr33n said:
Given how high your Power Up setting is it looks like UPBO is in fact disabled even though it might in fact be set to Auto.

I would suggest switching it manually to Enabled, then see if in fact the Power Up setting does drop down.

If it does it should theoretically help your download speeds get back up to normal quicker as you should get less crosstalk.
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Flicked it to enable and powerup has dropped from 8.5 to 2.4 now.
upload max rate has dropped in half though lol to 28xxx fro 41xxx

though download max rate has jumped back up to 90xxx
i remember when i first got fiber installed i had a max rate down @125xx its dropped quite a bit..

never the less its probably going to be 2 weeks + before dlm kicks me back up to max speed.
 
andy66 said:
Good news. I look forwards to it also making its way into beta or full f/w for DSL-N66U. Any news of plans for other devices?
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Hang on a sec even though the beta firmware appears to stabilise the fec/cec's I haven't seen any evidence to suggest it will keep to or restore back fastpath, which is one of the asus's greatest issue, or have I missed something somewhere.....
 
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chriscatt said:
However even though the beta firmware appears to stabilise the fec/cec's I haven't seen any evidence to suggest it will keep to or restore back fastpath, or have I missed something.....
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Probably not missed anything, and a good point. I was just happy that Asus think it's a change worth moving forwards with and it might get to the DSL-N66U so I can see if it lets mine keep fastpath.
 
If your (errored seconds + severely errored seconds) and SNRM delta are within DLM's thresholds, and avoid re-syncing, then after a few weeks DLM should relent and apply positive changes. It did for me even when I had millions of FEC's some days ago before the ESNP beta was posted here.

By SNRM delta, I mean how much difference the SNRM goes up or down within a 24 hour period. Ideally I feel it shouldn't swing much more than +/- 1 dB. On mine it generally moves no more than +/- 0.3 dB.

If the Openreach DLM profile for your circuit is 'speed' then it should be the following:
- Good: < 288 seconds
- No change: >= 289 seconds to <= 2879 seconds
- Bad: >= 2880 seconds

As far as I know anyway, https://support.zen.co.uk/kb/Knowle...oadband-FTTC-What-is-DLM-and-how-does-it-work has information.
 
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Ixel, I've tried looking through the post but too much info to find what I'm looking for. What did you find your FEC errors would be on the HG612? I'm currently at around 11,000 after 24hrs. No other types of errors at all though. When would this likely become an issue (Assuming FEC errors are taken into account)
 
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Ixel, I've tried looking through the post but too much info to find what I'm looking for. What did you find your FEC errors would be on the HG612? I'm currently at around 11,000 after 24hrs. No other types of errors at all though. When would this likely become an issue (Assuming FEC errors are taken into account)
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I don't believe FEC errors are taken into account, only ES+SES, re-syncs and SNRM delta. I had millions of FEC's some days ago before switching to the ESNP firmware but DLM still did a positive change on my line. It's all a matter of waiting for the caution counter I believe (and avoid any unnecessary resyncs too).

Keep your ES+SES (if you're on 'speed' profile) below 288 seconds, avoid re-syncs, and try to ensure your SNRM doesn't go much more than +/- 1 dB in a 24 hour timeframe - after a few weeks DLM should relent. The caution counter can go as high as 64 days.

When I was INP 3/0, delay 8ms/1ms, on the HG612 I had about 90k FEC errors in 3 hours of uptime~, that's around 30k FEC per hour. This was sometime ago however. On the ASUS I'm presently averaging 10k-20k per hour with INP 5/0, delay 16ms/1ms. Patiently waiting for the next positive change.
 
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I don't believe FEC errors are taken into account, only ES+SES, re-syncs and SNRM delta. I had millions of FEC's some days ago before switching to the ESNP firmware but DLM still did a positive change on my line. It's all a matter of waiting for the caution counter I believe (and avoid any unnecessary resyncs too).

Keep your ES+SES (if you're on 'speed' profile) below 288 seconds, avoid re-syncs, and try to ensure your SNRM doesn't go much more than +/- 1 dB in a 24 hour timeframe - after a few weeks DLM should relent. The caution counter can go as high as 64 days.

When I was INP 3/0, delay 8ms/1ms, on the HG612 I had about 90k FEC errors in 3 hours of uptime~, that's around 30k FEC per hour. This was sometime ago however. On the ASUS I'm presently averaging 10k-20k per hour with INP 5/0, delay 16ms/1ms. Patiently waiting for the next positive change.
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Thank you Ixel. Makes sense that. Appreciate the time you took to explain it all. I'm on speed profile.
My ES+SES stats are as follows.

Per second Per minute Per hour Per day
ES Up 0 0 0 0
Down 0 0.13 7.57 182

SES Up 0 0 0 0
Down 0 0 0 0

SNR appears to be fluctuating between 6.1-6.3dB so it appears happy.
 
i was surprised to find that going back to sky sagem 2504n modem gives me much more crc errors than the asus

sky router gave me 627 down 423 up
asus gave me roughly 10 down 230 up
 
I thought it wasn't about the crc errors, mine only ever had a few, less than your sagem, stayed online but never went back to fastpath from interleaved, but how the asus was interpreting them...
 
Well I got this router and was really concerned about the issues people have been having here but given that ASUS have been active here and helping pick up the issues I decided to go for it

Happy to say I'm getting better speeds than with the HH5, solid wifi coverage all over the house and the wifi speeds are consistently good enough that I can ditch those crappy powerline ethernet plugs and the device is rock solid stable. Its fairly expensive as home routers go so its really nice to have it actually exceed my expectations
 
bitsNbobs said:
^^^^ Shocked its remained stable for 3+ days with only 0.7db up attenuation. Give it a week and im guessing it will interleave you at least on the up stream.
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0.7 is the norm and i have been just as low as that for months and stayed on fastpath ;)
also his max rate is over 80mb down and he has some snr to spare so to me the only thing that can happen to his DLM is a kick up to 79999 sync on download. ;)
 
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